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What would this world be like today without religion?

What if it never existed? What if it had existed, but society as a whole transitioned out of it? (from theism to atheism) What if some religions we know like Christianity/Catholicism, Islam, Judaism, etc either never existed or ceased to exist?Would this world be a better or a worse place to live?

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sogdianrock

Hi MegaMan97
“In fact, monotheism, as it has played out in history, is a kaleidoscope of monotheist, dualist, polytheist and animist legacies, jumbling together under a single divine umbrella. The average Christian believes in the monotheist God, but also in the dualist Devil, in polytheist saints, and in animist ghosts. Scholars of religion have a name for this simultaneous avowal of different and even contradictory ideas and the combination of rituals and practices taken from different sources. It’s called syncretism. Syncretism might, in fact, be the single great world religion.”
Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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