Much like claims about morality, the claim of the religious to be the only glue that can hold communities together is an obviously false claim that the religiou

Much like claims about morality, the claim of the religious to be the only glue that can hold communities together is an obviously false claim that the religious get to make with a straight face because of the moment in history that we live in. In the United States, the primacy of Christianity over the last few hundred years has resulted in a culture that maintains nonsensical claims like these enshrined and untouchable. Of course, this had to change eventually because the underlying supernatural theories are self-evidently false. For minus the supernatural claims, religious is just another secular organization which fosters certain cultural and social beliefs, like many, many, many others. There is nothing special about religion and there never has been. Human beings do not require certain questions to be answered with recourse to magic in order to function. See the atomic theory for a counterexample. I beg the moderates among us to agree that community is good, but to insist that it need not come with ridiculous magic strings attached.