religion will only go away if every last believer is VIOLENTLY wiped off the planet.
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Hardly. Nothing grants a religion legitimacy quite like persecution. If you want to get rid of them, your best bet is to make sure to educate their children in secular schools for several generations, thus ensuring that their parents do not indoctrinate them.
Nope. Belief in something is not necessarily bad, as long as the creed is reasonable.
That declaration, on the other hand, is not.
However, organised religion, in itself, comes close to mental manipulation. Could we first focus on breaking the most BS parts of religion and the organisations that are holding humanity back?
Possibly, but does anyone in their right mind think that's morally right or even feasible? There are a lot more believers than non-believers, and they tend to be armed & organized. And lastly, it's incredibly hard to claim the moral high ground when you're the one doing all the persecuting & murder.
Violent wiping can't even make the pine tar on my windshield go away.
The only way to make religion go away is to remove its relevance. Easier said than done.
Relevance for believers is hope of (a pleasant) life after death, and community/fellowship providing a support system here on Earth.
Relevance for the manipulators is a group that can be led, creating a power bloc.
Religion will survive for as long as one can find people who will believe anything a person in authority tells them, a.k.a. "trusting fools."
All that said, if I hear one more woo perversion of Quantum Theory, I might turn violent.
Not even then, sad to say. People dream up new ones often enough, whether out of a far too active imagination mixed with underactive quality controls on their pattern-seeking ability, various psychoses or as a simple scam like Joseph Smith's. We're like to be stuck with some degree of it forever. You'd sink to its level and not even accomplish anything for it.
Nope.
Religion will end when the last believer will be cured.
That meand educationg the ignorants masses and finally, having the courage to admit that faith is a psychosis and a fancy word for "cognitive dissonance".
Violence will be counter-productive and inefficient.
Yeah, that'll work.
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You're gonna wipe out 6 billion people, possibly more? Yeah, miss me with the global genocide. Also, this is the #1 sure fire way to create terrorists and people that want you dead.
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