Well, that is certainly the bias, anyway. And yet there are currently 8 billion humans on the planet, many of them causing each other much "strife", and yet very few of them are actually doing it because they think their God wants them to. Most of them are doing it because they are greedy, and selfish, and want to control (exploit) everything and everyone around them for their own gain. Partly because they are afraid that if they don't, the people around them will control and exploit them. And mostly they are right. None of which has anything at all to do with religion. And in fact, if we actually investigate what most religions say about all this greed and selfishness and fear, we find that religion mostly frowns on it. And admonishes people not to engage in such behavior.
It is mainly the fact that religions hardly evolve, have so much silly dogma from the past, and beliefs as to whatever was written being for all eternity, that such is causing many issues. Apart from the fact that so many religious beliefs do still believe they have it correct and that eventually their beliefs will dominate - perhaps Islam being a prime example. The Qur'an being perfect, the religion applying to every aspect of life, even though apostasy is also necessary - how wonderful is that! Don't Muslims ever question why apostasy is necessary?
I'm not interested in what religions say, but more interested in what they tend to do. They still enable hatred or discrimination between the various beliefs, and towards those who have not been included from their origins - as to sexual orientation, gender and such, let alone females for so long - even when knowledge changes to show everything is not actually as written in some old text.
But you dont see any of that. All you see are religious wars everywjere you look. Right?
Really? Of course I don't, but few of the hotspots where religious violence is likely have vanished since I was born.
We could life quite satisfactorily without a whole lot of things. And yet we want those things, anyway, because although our lives would be "satisfactory" without them, we find our lives are better then that with them.
Few would complain if such beliefs didn't also bring along with them so many deficits too - because those espousing them and those believing in such do often take whatever religious text is used to be 'the truth'. And to think that those who live without religious beliefs are somehow deficient or shallow is simply arrogance on the part of those who do have some particular religious belief - even when usually such belief is contested by several others, and often violently. So who are the arrogant ones?
We humans are to blame, of course. Yet science has nothing at all to say about that, while religions do at least try to adminish us not to behave so badly toward each other. And yet for some reason your response is to blame religion when religion is very often not even involved, and you praise science which only serves to makes us all far more effective at destroying each other, while saying nothing at all against it.
No, I try to place the blame where it belongs. Many see science as dragging us into some abominable future, even destruction, but where even the religious are happy to make use of whatever it provides. And people do have a say as to what the future will bring if they think hard enough and vote where they are able. So many religions on the other hand are still drags from the past - as to morality (attitudes to sexual orientation, gender issues, even female equality, etc.), as to separating us from all other life (because we were obviously designed by God to have dominion over all else, bla bla), as to being mostly fixed rather than adaptable (granted that some do allow changes when the population demands such), and where such beliefs are still being indoctrinated into children rather than such being an education. Because children obviously have no such rights as to a fair education.
Science does what science is supposed to do. We should look towards philosophy, psychology, social sciences, and all the rest if we want proper answers that religions seemingly prefer to have a monopoly over. I will never praise science for just being science, since I know such can often provide as many bad things as good - plastics being one example and a current pollution problem - but it is still down to humans as to making decisions as to what to do with scientific knowledge and to choose the various paths open to us.
I don't know which is the worst issue that humans face but wealth differences to me seems to be one of the major ones, and one that the USA more than most countries seems to ignore and seemingly still wants to have over the less wealthy nations. Perhaps that is an issue which some Americans might want to ponder - and the USA being an especially religious country too.
