Religion: Who Needs It.?

The Dalai Lama is a spiritual leader and Richard Dawkins an evolutionary biologist and atheist. Both of them agree that Religion is an unnecessary evil and the world would be a better place without it. Religion may be divine, but it lacks spirituality and ethics. They state that we should mix spirituality and ethics and find a replacement for religion. All the existing organized religions tend to manifest conflict, violence, intolerance and unhappiness with their rigid holy concepts. David Barash a professor of psychology states, that our minds have a stubborn fondness for simple sounding explanations that may be false, but true enough for the believer. That is why faith thrives in some place and why religion is vestigial in countries like Denmark and Sweden. For the first time in human history, there are now hundreds of millions of unbelievers in all the developed countries. Robert Brault also echoes similar sentiments when he states man is the only creature who enjoys the consolation of believing in religion, salvation, absolution,heaven, and after life. All other living things enjoy the consolation of not worrying about it.