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Religion should/should not die, because...? [Spirituality & Religion]

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Whether it dies or doesn't die... I have no preference. Religious ideas and customs seem illogical to me, but there will always be illogical people. Religion is only one of the areas that give rise to irrationality, but destroying it would not end irrationality. Disclaimer: Just because I say something is illogical, doesn't mean I'm necessarily saying that it isn't true. All it means is that evidence doesn't support it, in the slightest. But a lack of evidence isn't evidence of nonexistence. And so I'm fine with having people believe what they want to believe. But because religion will always be illogical and not based on evidence, then I find it very worrisome when people begin to push their religious beliefs into other people's lives, such as voting against same-sex marriage because it was against the Old Testament. This will lead to society moving towards the side that preaches irrationality as a truth, rather than a belief. That is dangerous. But the problem doesn't come from religion, but rather from the human mind. Removing religion from society would do little in making a more rational society. What there needs to be is an education system that thinks less about teaching such specific subjects such as Calculus or Anatomy to a group of students who KNOW they'll never be using it in their lives and replace it with classes that actually teach kids how to see the world in a perspective different from their own, as well as take them outside of the bubble that the majority will probably grow themselves in. We have classes on Math, Reading, Science, History, etc., but no classes on actually learning how to think and rationally come to conclusions to different questions, from K-12. So should religion die or not die? Doesn't matter. We need people to learn more about other's perspectives, rather than just their own. This, to me, seems to be the problem.