No religion or ideology has done anything good for mankind; only technology has, starting with fire and the wheel right up to Internet. But religion and ideology do seem to give people a sense of alleviating an irrational need; fear of the unknown, crazy promises of future happiness, feae of what we do not undetstand. Political ideologies who negate God, like Marxism and Nazism play the same role.
The Greeks were the first to say that human reason and evidence is the tool to understand ourselves, nature, the universe. As a result they towered over all other civilisations in knowledge and inventions, invented democracy and reached peaks that only when Europeans rediscovered the Greeks in the Renaissance, humanity started to get close to the Greeks but not quite; religion and religion-like ideologies still carryva lot of weight.
But make no mistake, what pushed the Europeans beyond everyone else, until Americans and, more recently, some Asians started to catch up, was not Christianity but because Greek-based curiosity, freedom of thought produced.
The flushing toilet, pennicillin, electricity, running water, steel and other metals, modern medicine, modern farming, the telefone, the steam engine, airplanes, modern ships, modern Greek-based sports, democracy, the computer, the car and on and on have done all the heavy lifting of improving the life of humanity. Religion and political ideologies do nothing but distracting human energy with stupid violence; that is what we see still right now all over.
Chinese and Americans should drop ideology, particularly the Chinese and concentrate on improving the lives of the people, not in controlling them with social credits (control to the milimiter) or media censorship like in the US.
The peopke need to take control Swiss style. Study their system.
