That would depend on the "how". If eradicating religion includes the eradication of PEOPLE, most definitely not. No matter how much harm religion does, it would be just as wrong to exact any form of genocide to be rid of it.

Similarly, if this simply results in a replacement for religion such as stateism or nationalism, I wouldn't care to do it. I would love to see religion gone, but only if this is through education and people giving it up for themselves.

Just because I don't need it, does not means others will.

Yes. Then push science and math, world studies and compassion,

the only way to do it, is by education and patience. we cannot write laws banning it. the soviets tried that, and failed. all they did was drive it underground. and they were willing to go much further trying to eradicate it then most of us are.

Absolutely, but how would one do so. A religion is essentially an alternate reality. If you got rid of them all, I'm pretty sure you'd have to get rid of all things pretend or people who like to pretend would just keep creating new ones.

Note, if you eradicated all religions, most if not all countries would be gone as well. I'll always contend a religion to be simply an entity that utilizes something over reality. For my country, that is popular opinion. For religions, it is a dusty old book plagiarized from other dusty old books, scrolls or tablets.

Yes, religion always serves to control the masses.. if you said eradicate spiritualism.. I could think harder about it. I don't see an "issue" with someone believing in something greater than themselves.. I take issue when they try to force that belief on others.

Without harming people? Yes. It's one more thing that divides us and meaning can be found elsewhere.

Yes because religion is the cause of most of the misery in the world

Probably not. It's a human need to want something bigger than themselves to believe in. It's a coping mechanism.

Yes! It divides the world and holds back progress. It gives people an excuse to do cruel and horrible things. If I believed in a devil I would think it created religion just to screw up the world. I just hope that someday civilization will outgrow the childish need for religion!

Absolutely!!!????

Yes.

In a heartbeat.

Yes without hesitation.

no, I would slowly factor it out, teaching people first to internalize, Then to accept the responsibility for their life. To accept their humanity, knowing they will eror and go on, hopefully learning from each mistake. That before they were born their life force did not exist and after their life is over it will go away or become one with the "FORCE" but they will no longer exist; so enjoy your time here, live by the maxim---do the right thing and bring joy and happiness to everyone you can.

Destroy is the wrong word, but to see the majority of the world see the "light" so to speak, will enable the human race to progress to our next level of humanity where we finally can be truly one human race

nah, people can make their own choices

No, I have no interest in influencing others

Religion just seems like a crutch although I guess it works for some people. In my opinion, decent people are decent people with or without some holy book telling them what to do or how to act. I personally don't need or want some book written by some person with their own beliefs to chart my life with no debate. Just me. So many religions and so many contradictions, so whose to say what's right or wrong, if any.

I think that if religion provides guidelines for how people should act, like what would Jesus do,and those people want to follow that then it's all good with me, I appreciate dealing with people that follow the new testament and Jesus' teachings. The problem is when people take parts of religion out of context and adapt them for their own use or greed. And the extremists that use it for their benefit. I was raised Mennonite, their views on religion, which in some parts extreme, are in general about being good people, treating the earth with care and pacifists.

That's an interesting question to consider, considering religion causes so much of the pain the world suffers... yet personally I don't believe I would. For so many, religion is a pretty damn good answer as to why we exist or what our purpose is. Humans naturally need that understanding to function in some way and it's more core to some people than others. I believe that if there was a way to say, help everyone understand we are all different and have different beliefs and shouldn't hurt one another over them, then that would be the way to go rather than just ripping a central belief to so many from right under their feet. It would be surely important to allow young people to think for themselves and follow any lifestyle or belief they felt fit for themselves.