# Question for those who believe all religion should be abolished? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [May 14, 2009, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-those-who-believe-all-religion-should-be-abolished/496388 "2009-05-14T05:42:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 15
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2009, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-those-who-believe-all-religion-should-be-abolished/496388/15 "2009-05-16T00:28:58Z")
First, I think that the OP is confusing cause and effect; IMHO, the people who can’t run their lives without everything they do being dictated by their religion have been generally been crippled in that way by the religion which has infected them. Second; such people are a danger to themselves and others, since by definition they will do anything their religion asks of them - the OP implicitly assumes that religion is benevolent, and sane. And third, if they are truly that crippled they probably belong in an institution ( I expect that many such people do end up in one; prison ), not as the pawn of religion or as the sort of soldier who would not doubt massacre children if so ordered. It’s simply not healthy to be incapable of making your own decisions like that, or safe for anyone around you. > [@BrightNShiny](#): > > I’d be interested to see if there is anybody here who thinks religion should be abolished. I know we have several posters here who take a dismal view of religion, but that’s a far cry from advocating that religious practices be prohibited by force of law. And other than some communist regimes, I’m having trouble of thinking of any government which actually tried to abolish all religion (as opposed to abolishing religions that weren’t regime preferred). I would prefer that humanity be genetically modified to eliminate whatever mental defects cause religion. I regard religion as a mental disorder, not as a rational choice. And I do think that in the long run that either we will erase religion from ourselves, we will destroy ourselves under it’s influence, or religion will manage to drag humanity into a permanent Dark Age or a mind control based tyranny where it can utterly dominate humanity permanently. Religion is insanity, and it and a sane society are fundamentally incompatible; in the long run either it dies, society dies, or sanity dies. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-those-who-believe-all-religion-should-be-abolished/496388)._