>Religion, held at any level above personal, is destructive to the larger population, in the long run. This is simply not true. What is true is that group-thi

>Religion, held at any level above personal, is destructive to the larger population, in the long run. This is simply not true. What is true is that group-think which allows people to completely disregard others in such a fashion that they are willing to murder, is destructive to the larger population. Religion has held together many a society which would have cannibalized itself time and again, over and over. It is simply the desire to abandon morality and murder a fellow living being which must be dealt with, and Religion definitely does not have a monopoly on this facet of our social existence.