Religion may offer individuals some measure of consolation and comfort when confronted to events that are beyond our control or sense of fairness, but in no way does it contributes to explaning or understanding the world we are confronted to, nor does it teaches us how to act and behave responsibly.
It is a desilusion to believe that religion has any real answer whatsoever to our misfortunes and that it can bring us any real solace.
At best, it walls us in a mirage, making us blind to reality and unwiling and unprepared to confront it. It’s a lot easier to believe that you life will improve one day thank’s to god’s sense of fairness, justice and goodness than it is to actually confront your existence and fight adversity now to improve it.
I’m sure we would all have a better appreciation of life, of our environment, of our fellow people if the hardships and their consequences we inflict on ouselves and others were really plain to see and not kept away from sight by religious beliefs. People often do terrible things, moved by an awfully ordinary ability to dissociate themselves from their act by invoking a higher power to justify themselves.This may well be part of our humanity -an evolved trait that helped us survive as a species- but we also have the intellectual power to overcome those primal feelings and not be slaves to them.
