Different perspectives on the primary function and success of religions

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Because that's not the point of the religion. So then you extrapolate that out and I'll sit in and thinking, what's the primary function of a religion? And the primary function of a religion, I don't believe is the religion exists so I can live forever. I mean, that's a nice thought. But I think on a macro level, the primary objective of a religion is to restore and contain some degree of traditional value within the society. How do you judge? Let me change the way I worded that. How do you judge the success of a religion? I don't think you can judge it by the number of people who join it because there's lots of people who are Catholic who don't act Catholic. They don't act in any way, particularly Christian. Anyone can say there's something. You can walk into a strip club and everyone says, Christian, it doesn't mean anything, right? So how do you judge the success of a religion? Well, I like to think the best way to judge the success of a religion is how successful is it at fighting evil? How successful is it at preserving the morality of a population in X parameter, in X geographical area? So when you look at it from that way, you can't say that Islam isn't the most successful religion on earth. It's the most successful in regards to opposing evil, it's the most successful in regards to opposing its differing viewpoints, it's the most successful in regards

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