If religion wasn’t behind some of the worst atrocities on the planet you might have a point, but the largest religions also are the ones that tend to be fundementally intolerant.
Once an irrational belief in magical spirits starts effecting other people and how our society is run that’s when it becomes something people actively need to be convinced not to believe. They need to cope with reality, not hide from it.
Akasazh@feddit.nl 6 months ago
The first sentence isn’t true at all, science doesn’t try and disprove god at all. It’s just inconvenient for people who used to explain things as ‘god made it’ that science didn’t manage to prove that.
Science is the only belief system that tries to falsify theorems. So rather than daarin something is true, we try to prove something is false. That doesn’t gel with a system that supposes to have the absolute answer to all things.
However it doesn’t say you can’t believe what you want, just that it might not be true.