Still plenty of people being spiritual 'in their own way'.
I'm a queer disabled immigrant. I know that humans generally hate me. If you wait long enough, though, humans will destroy themselves.
Multiple cultures were well organized and thriving before established religion was forced on them.
I don't choose to pretend that previous e.g. animist spiritual systems were not religions. This is because I define religion by human practice and adherence, as humans define religion in a world where they invent it.
The world is blowing up. But it's blowing up because of human economic activity, which is 'good', so therefore that isn't seen as 'extremist'.
Israel, apparently, is a country that can only exist if it crushes the innocent. After all, when I question the killing of innocents, I am told that I am imperilling the existence of Israel, and therefore all its citizens, by not supporting these actions.
You might also point out, for balance, that the opposites of those things can also be expected within religious frameworks.
With or without religion, it is people who purposefully carry out those actions while more often than not being aware they can be conceived of as harmful. You can try to take religion away from people, but don't expect hate to go with it.
There can't be war crimes if no one exists to remember the war crimes.
"I attached my own ass to my face, and my ass is a leopard, and the ass-leopard is eating my face, and our/my shared ass-leopard/human stomach is digesting my face, and I love it."
Clearly, day-to-day life is organised such that people who believe absolute bullshit can cope with it. This might be because the human world is built on bullshit, such as the concepts of:
- humans being superior to other species ("so I'm a winner")
- constant economic growth being possible ("so we can keep winning")
- the world remaining roughly as it is in a way that suits humans ("so winning will go on forever")
- able-bodied people being more important than disabled people ("winners contrast with losers, and I'm not a loser")
- also, various forms of difference being disgusting (there's a lot on the theme of "winners contrast with losers, and I'm not a loser")
- the possibility of some kind of immutable 'strength' vs a lesser 'weakness', ignoring the fact that all living beings die, so neither strength or weakness make an objective long-term difference ("my winningness is part of my strength that will not leave me, losers are gross and should be dominated and treated like shit")
Society is literally purposefully organised to entrench privilege in a way that maximises the ability for some to oppress others. That's why you have people who say they 'care about children' while children on their street are abused, or go without food. Humans visibly put more effort (as a group, some individuals are different) into pretending and rationalising rather than actually improving things. They can even rationalise the killing of children in various, pathetic, ways.
All these, and more, are ideological positions that give false and meaning to human existence. If there were a button that slammed objective reality into everyones' brains, even if it would kill 90%+ of the population from the sheer terror of the realisation that humans are not important, I would not hesitate to press it.
Hatred being a legitimate political position which attracts votes and is therefore of interest to those who want power is what has created harm.
Last I heard you write comments starting 'last I heard' to pretend that you heard something devastatingly interesting had happened when it, factually, did not, and that you do this in order to pretend to have something beneficial to say when, factually, you do not.
Wait for the next installment in a week where, again, nothing much happens.