@c6275ce1 @a0b5ba53 Religion gets a lot of it's support from poor and suffering people who latch onto religion to help cope with reality. Without poverty and suffering people will be less inclined to be religious.
It's no coincidence that there are less religious people in the modern world, with our modern medicine and technology, than in the past, and why the places with the least religion are the ones where people have more access to the basic necessities of life and more freedom.
If religion is to be done away with then everyone will have to be given all of the necessities of life without exception and the freedom to associate and travel as they see fit. Only then will the two primary gateways to religion, poverty and desperation, be gone, significantly decreasing the appeal of religion.
Of course there are other reasons people are religious that have nothing to do with socioeconomic suffering, such as a yearning for a meaning to life, which will exist even if an ideal society where suffering doesn't exist. Philosophical education can surely be a viable solution to tending to people's existential quandaries so that they don't fall into religion as an escape.
@429bb265 @c6275ce1 @a0b5ba53 quite the bold statement to imply that places without religion are someone more accessible than those places without. If anything religion is the way people access those very serices and needs you state are "widely" available.
I can tell that this is a very narrow and western understanding of religion. I'd really urge a bit more exploration with religious leftists/anarchist.
@deb6f389 @c6275ce1 @a0b5ba53 Countries with the highest amounts of atheist are ones with more accessable healthcare, education, and other necessities, and I believe the two are directly linked. And whatever services religious organizations provide can be easily done by secular organizations.
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