Religion also provides the counterweight to the massive weight of propaganda being shoveled onto people. Not particularly religious myself but if it provides a barrier between my family and the utter vile evil that is spreading like wildfire through our country, then I will die defending Christianity. If religion is eradicated, there will be no foundational principles on which morality and ethics are built. I was hardcore anti-religion until I saw the destruction wrought by the alternative.
Religion also provides the counterweight to the massive weight of propaganda being shoveled onto people. Not particularly religious myself but if it provides a barrier between my family and the utter vile evil that is spreading like wildfire through our country, then I will die defending Christianity. If religion is eradicated, there will be no foundational principles on which morality and ethics are built. I was hardcore anti-religion until I saw the destruction wrought by the alternative.