I agree with one caveat. What replaces religion as the driving force for morality in humans? For me it needs to be humanism. The next step forward for our species is when we can see all humans as equal as a base state of being. No relevance to gender, race, sexual orientation, nationality etc. Until we have that unity as a species we will continue to kill each other with or without religion. We will simple find other reasons to hate the "other".

@Quarm absolutely, humanism is the best solution plus our innate tendencies towards compassion, understanding, respecting and having empathy towards our fellow species; I think the better off we will be in the spirit of unity for the entirety of our species.

Nah. I am a true atheist. I believe we can all give a crap about each other and do good and great things without the bus of religion.

@RedskyRiver you sound just like that guy!

@OwlInASack easy to say I guess

@OwlInASack you have rejected religion and in that I say you do well. But it might not serve you to continue to accept the interpretations of a nation that you (and God, perhaps) have rejected? After all what issue do you have really with 'love your neighbor as yourself?' The religious are roundly rejected in the Bible, many times, pretty sure if there is a God He hates religion even more than you do

@OwlInASack ah sorry, the nation of the blind referred to in the...well never mind that, the nation of "believers" lol. Who do not have a clue how to Read the Bible btw, and do not realize that all of the dissing of religion in There is directed right at them, "the Pharisees." Which I doubt is going to change you mind much right, but honest it's all in there plain as day, "let the blind lead, the blind," "if your right eye offends you pluck it out," etc. "I came to abolish all rule and authority and powers" I mean cmon

@OwlInASack ah well imo Colin Kaepernick is a god lol, that's what we are, supposed to be anyway, *elohim," but my point was that we are likely reading/being fed the Bible all wrong; writing that Jesus is "Messiah" and "Christ," terms for caesar, amounts to a big FU to Rome, see.

@OwlInASack Jesus did not die for your sins ok, that's all religious hooey, yes

@OwlInASack as an actual person? Yes, I srsly doubt it. As a concept, diff animal. "Nazareth" in "Jesus of Nazareth" is a virtual admission of this, which would have been immediately understood by a contemporary i guess. "Nazareth" = "the middle of nowhere," and is actually a joke in the context of a Rabbi declaring which wisdom school they hailed from, which was very important back then I guess. Saying "Jesus (Joshua) of Nazareth" would be like saying "John Doe from Nowhere" now, literally.

@OwlInASack it's throughout the text, Peter said it plain, "they read Paul to their destruction." But there's plenty of direct Quotes that "believers" hate like holy water lol, "No Sonof Man may die for another's sins""no one has ever gone up to heaven""there is only one immortal," on and on. They were all fugitives, wanted by the authorities. "Two Greeks" came to "worship" Jesus and He "hid from them"

@OwlInASack what we call "religious people"--which is like ppl fixated on After I Die right--the Bible would call "diviner, -mancer, seer," like that