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Look at places like Africa that are Godless, not nice places to live.
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Wtf? Africa? Godless? You have GOT to be shitting me. Both conservative Islam and conservative Christianity have extensive followings. I realize this will sound harsh, but your ignorance, and willingness to speak brashly is staggering. If you consider animist faiths to be godless, you have still professed a complete negation of the extensive monotheistic traditions of the continent. Seriously...for your own good, go back and edit.
To me...the necessity of religion is to understand the why, not the how. I understand my faith as the process of listening to the inbreaking of love, mercy and justice in to this world...something that science doesn't seek to address. I don't ask religion to tell me why the sky is blue. I don't ask science to tell me if love and mercy or separation and distrust will have the last word of this world. Use the right tool for the job, no?