Quote Originally Posted by Samwhore
According to my religion, I am my own god. According to yours (I'm just assuming) god is a higher power.

Think of it this way, was life in the B.C. era any worse or better spiritually speaking? When there in fact, was "no god" (even though B.C. is Christ, ignore God for now) many of the people got along because they all had the same values and they never fought because they never believed anything other than what everyone else did. Maybe they shouldn't have gone with the herd, but spiritually speaking, they all got along better than before Christ was born.
what? people fought all the time before religion came around. If anything religion was used to control mass populaces so anchient governemnts could control their citizens. It kinda saved the human race from mob rule.