Religion is our upbringing. At the time we are born we don't have a religion. Our parents give us our first religion. When a curious baby tries to crush a moving ant mother will caution him not to do it. This type of experiences take root in a child's mind and later on transform to religion. So, secular of not everyone have a religion. Commonly this is termed as morality.
Religion will have added layers to morality. Morality will be almost same to all religions. People will kill each other for these added layers of religion. All the ills of religion is centered in these added layers.
It is unknown whether the morality preceded the added layers of religion, at the inception of all religions.
May be morality was a later development. At first certain rules were followed by animal who live communally. Without these rules everyone will try to kill each other and the species will not survive. These rules were converted to morality in the beginning. Later on rules like do not kill in vain. Was added. These rules are more towards to efficiency than survival. Any way efficiency is related to long term survival.
Religious layers were added by the baffling concept of death. Death is rarely mentioned in definitions of religion but death is the root of religion. There will be no religion without death and suffering. Suffering is deteriorating of the human body that culminates with death.
One strange aspect of religion is no-one can say it is absolutely correct or absolutely wrong. Because, no one is going to rise up from death and give his experience and explain what happened after death. We could only assume certain things.
Another aspect that we trend to forget is, physically what happens after death cannot depend on the religion you believe. Because different people have different beliefs. What happens after death cannot depend on what you believe, though it may depend, like most religions prescribe, on your actions in life. Therefore it is absurd to believe that Buddhist will attain nirvana and Muslims go to Allah. What happens will be same for both.
Therefore there are enough arguments to show the necessity of religion. So dishing religion altogether is not an option.
But there are lot of bad aspects of religion, like war in the name of religion. Through out history there are numerous examples of religious wars. Currently world peace is threatened by such a war.
Why secular
When world population is taken intro account, more and more people are stopping in believing in popular streams of religion. But in death they still resorts to religion. For example Europe that leads in secularism, still have their funerals in churches. Sometimes, this may be the result of children honoring their parents wishes.
The reason Europe leads in secularism is because, more educated are based in Europe compared to the rest of the world.
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