How long do you think it will be before religion is no longer a significant part of our culture?

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26. Lol

You gave evidence that some people who happen to be religious are idiots or easily given to conspiracy theories about vaccines.

Not really earth shattering.

You've then advanced an opinion that this is really all due to religion seeking death. No evidence for that opinion.

I didn't say anything about chasing death. I said fear of death generates a need to avoid it by negating it as a finality. This isn't something I just came up with, it's a pretty long-standing psychological theory that predate you, me and our grandparents.

We created an afterlife almost as soon as we developed an understanding of the finality of death. We built up religions to help form and give logic and reason to an afterlife.

Obviously, those beliefs are used by others to do all sorts of things, control being primary. And certainly SOME people can use religion to justify anything from the heroic to the selfless to the massively stupid.

So because you think a handful of people express an opinion on death that somehow extends to all religious people or is the basis of all religious belief is a narrow and self serving opinion.

Religion does spring from a fundamental unanswerable question, what happens after we die. Fear of nonexistence. Even if I bought your opinion that religious people race to death, which obviously I don't, but even if I did, WHY would they be racing towards death UNLESS they believed that death wasn't the end?

There are precious few religions that don't have an afterlife, why is that?

You clearly don't think much about religion and thus you have created an opinion that allows you to handwave away all religious people as death seekers.