Richard Dawkins famously said "We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further"
We cannot ban religion. But I hope someday it will be abolished; simply because people wont need it
Dawkins, along with most of science, simply ignores the scientific proof for God, as well as the example of nature's machinery.
He doesn't ignore it; there simply isn't any proof of God
"Nature's machinery" is pure science
If we are talking about science then there isnt any proof that God exist but Lot of things that science cant explain. Mysteries that the cant solved. Banning people that is There are 2 or more Gods! Not religion because religion is where your belief takes place.
When you combine the scientific laws of cause and effect, complex universe, and universal entropy, you find that something made this universe that matches the definition of "God" in the dictionaries.
but that doesn't mean that it's a christian god. What if it turned out you've been following the wrong religion the whole time and you're doomed to eternity in hell because of it? "We all worship gods that we can't even see but we're destroying the nature that's all around us".
Stop being so ignorant, even tho that's the main characteristic of most religious people.
What would a person have to understand about God or a particular religion to determine that the religion in question was the right one? When you study the Christian religion in depth, and see the power and sense behind it, you might have an idea that Christianity is the best religion. Then when you sincerely ask God to reveal best one to you the, and He overwhelms your spirit with His Spirit, through the Christian religion, you almost don't have any choice.
Check the details about Christianity - where it came from, the unity of the Bible, the history of the nation of Israel, the prophecies in the Bible and their fulfillment, the sense of the Bible, how the Bible fits the facts and philosophies of life, the miracles through all of time, the eye witness reports, how the Holy Spirit moves you when you do the in-depth study - and you will see that Christianity is the religion of God.
Can you see God in other things? Of course. The fact of the love of God is shown all over the place in the fact that He provides you with all the things of life that you need to live, and enjoyment as well, even though there are times of pain. Christianity answers the questions you have about God way better than any other religion... including the question of which religion God wants you to follow.
All the religions operate through faith. Even living life without a formal religion involves faith, because you don't know from one minute to the next,
for a fact what will happen. So, life is lived on faith, just like following a religion is following it by faith.
Why do we live by faith? Because we are so mentally weak that our knowledge of the universe is incapable of seeing enough to know things for an absolute fact. Yet God holds nature to follow many of our more general predictions in life, so we can live in reasonable peace of mind about all the things that haven't happened yet.