Don´t forbid religion
first of all not all religions are that easy to misuse than the one of those christian mans.
Second of all rather try to erase the reason for religion.
The human brain developed in several major steps. The first inner part contains the basic functions like breathing and heartbeat. The second part surrounding it is the r-complex controlling agression, territorial behavior and sotial hierarchics as used by the reptiles. Then comes the mammal part, containing care for the children and so on. And the "newest"one is the part that is used for the thinking.
There is a theory that you can foster either the mammal or the reptile heritage. And a Neuropsychologist once looked over 400 preindustrial societies and he found out, that Cultures which care (in a love sort of way) about their children, don´t tend to be violent.
Cultures who don´t care about children, but don´t suppress them sexually also did well.
According to that statistic, Cultures that beat and restrict or disregard their children tend to slavery, mutilation and killing of enemies, believe in the inferiority of women, believe that supernatural beings interfere with their everyday lifes, and tend to organised religion.
If you want to get rid of religion or war, foster (psychologically spoken) strong and healthy and intelligent children.
Problem: most of the children don´t get (psychologically spoken) strong and healthy and intelligent parents or teacher (or school mates). And most of the children still happen instead of being planned…
oops… me being serious again
this sucks
Could you please tell me what you all prefer to suck at? I mean cola bottles, hot tea pots, power outlets, genderless aliens or what?
If you´re not nice to me, I´ll suck my thumb…
HH