All places of worship need to fall, as no stone shall be upon another.

Why have you not read the whole header and have but focused on what you please? All places of worship need to fall, as no stone shall be upon another. You say that you will take a philosophical standpoint. Is that a philosophical-scientific standpoint? Con Is this correct in accordance to what you have already said? Places of worship bring a semblance of order that is beneficial to everyone. One of the biggest problems with atheism that many people face is the lack of meaning. For some humans, with our complex minds and free will can make us detrimental to society. People question why they should live, why they should contribute to society, not go around and murder people:). This has been detrimental to society in the past where humans used to live in kingdoms and tribes. By imposing a higher deity, who could punish them and do anything to them humans are told to do the right things. If by believing they were forced to follow the rules, then the society benefits. Pro Religion and beliefs have had its place in time to be the leading rule for the people by the people and it just isn't the structures created for worship that it was and should be. Religion and beliefs over time corrupt their own fundamental principles, when they try to become a governing force. People then break away and create their own governing rule. All religions and beliefs belong to the people and governing rule. Credibility is kept in check of both positions of authority at the people's discretion. Con Humans are pack animals and living together and working together is what allowed us to advance. Killing other humans would surely hurt this so morals were created to preserve society. Morals are a social construct that is imposed by religion. Religion is like a weapon that gave humans a reason to be good citizens. HELL. Nowadays, you could argue that religion is useless as these morals are so ingrained into our culture that we are taught to do all these things but with a semblance of free will. Nowadays the reason to be a good citizen is punishment by the government. Aren't both government and places of worship in terms of purpose the same thing? They both serve to protect society through punishment. The government though is accepted because there is a bit of free will and voting in a democracy but frankly, government is essential. To get to this point of time where some societies consist of millions of people, it would have been impossible. Religion has connected millions of people together and allowed for society to function. Without it, humans would trust no one except their families making society almost impossible to create. Pro So how is it that the leaders of the towers of Babel (established religions and beliefs of today) have so much wealth and treasures while people are starving to death? So many wealthy individuals upon the tree of monkeys (today's worldwide economics') would pay billions? Con Places of worship nowadays have to accept differences and many people are rejecting the ideas of heaven and hell. Places of worship act as a place for many people to connect with their community, to feel needed and have a purpose in life. By destroying worship places you are denying them the right to actually do what they need. there are so many non-violent churches that just profess a belief, Donate to charities and just try to be good people. Pro Atheists create divisions and mixed messages within and between western cultures and eastern cultures "excuse me for not a better word then cultures" Here in the west where we supposedly have freedom of speech rofl, while atheists continue within a scientific tunnel vision perspective and repeatedly toss the baby out with the bath water. While extremists intentionally pick up that big stick to defend any integrity that is left of any book/text about any sort of existence creator. The complete truth of any war; "it's not about who was right. It's about who is left" While philosophy and psychology continue to sift through the bias recordings of history left by the victors. Con As an atheist we should understand that we just don't know much about the universe by all there could be a god but the chances are so low that it doesn't make sense to believe. But if someone chooses to believe you cannot say they are wrong because you don't know enough. If we can come to a point where god doesn't exist 100%, then they are stating false things. But even then you are infringing on their right to freedom of thought and speech by telling them they are not allowed to believe in god. I find this to be hypocritical as it fails to note that atheism is also a freedom of speech and shouldn't oppress anyone. Pro So is it any wonder that the break down in communication has escalated to where we all stand within the united nations today throughout the world it's all so over governed with all sorts of taxes, fees, rates and insurances with foreign deficits still looming over our children's future putting our air and water quality at risk because of our blatant disregarded upon nature which affects the essentials of life that are becoming more so prevalent with obvious climate change. Con Also to your UN point which is irrelevant to the debate, It's not that bad. No country is that evil. there is no game of insanity we are all still alive. Pro Psychopaths are born and Sociopaths are made. https://eyesofasociopath.weebly.com... Approximately 70,000,000 psychopaths and approximately 280,000,000 sociopaths 1% and 4% of the world's population both have destructive habitual behavioural issues, they both have no moral compass about empathetic or sympathetic traits that loving caring parents teach their children. High functioning sociopaths and psychopaths play vicious games exploiting any that threaten their status quo of all I.Q levels. A trained mind can spot both traits. A true psychopath has an actual physical brain disorder and sociopaths have a physiological brain dysfunction. One in five CEO's exploit humanities humane it's about the same as prisoners in prison. https://www.healthyplace.com... http://www.beardexecutiveconsulting.com... Con Unconditional love does not make people humane. You could kill 10,000 people just for one person what makes people humane is just our biological feelings to protect fellow humans Pro These missing link referring to the psychopaths and the sociopaths plays a vicious game within consumer affairs of domination within their (it's not ours) economic policies created in an unethical playing field that instigates disastrous corporatism upon us all adding another link into the chain of humanities evolutionary flawed progression upon the tree of monkeys and the tower of Babel where any honest Joe that tries to play catch up, or just to keep the wolves from the door work themselves into an early grave. https://en.wikipedia.org... Psychopaths are born and Sociopaths are made. https://eyesofasociopath.weebly.com... Approximately 70,000,000 psychopaths and approximately 280,000,000 sociopaths 1% and 4% of the world's population both have destructive habitual behavioural issues, they both have no moral compass about empathetic or sympathetic traits that loving caring parents teach their children. High functioning sociopaths and psychopaths play vicious games exploiting any that threaten their status quo of all I.Q levels. A trained mind can spot both traits. A true psychopath has an actual physical brain disorder and sociopaths have a physiological brain dysfunction. One in five CEO's exploit humanities humane it's about the same as prisoners in prison. https://www.healthyplace.com... http://www.beardexecutiveconsulting.com... These missing link in reference to sociopaths use psychopaths to play vicious game within consumer affairs of domination within their (it's not ours) economic policies created in an unethical playing field that instigates disastrous corporatism upon us all adding another link into the chain of humanities evolutionary flawed progression upon the tree of monkeys and the tower of Babel where any honest Joe that tries to play catch up, or just to keep the wolves from the door work themselves into an early grave. https://en.wikipedia.org... How can we keep the wolves from the door and not become victimized? We can't. But we can do this for our children's future and it's as simple as an appreciation for human rights, being a mandatory subject in all of the schools of the world as part of the curriculum as early as preschool. https://www.humanrights.gov.au... In 1911 the United Kingdom introduced the National Insurance Act 1911. Humanity is humane after all. Why didn't the rest of the world leaders follow suit? https://en.wikipedia.org... Cause and effect have been out of the majorities grasp ever since WW2 and the end of the civil wars in Europe. Since then we exist within a Skinner box materialist throw-away society. https://www.simplypsychology.org... Eugenics that many nations adopted back in early 1900. https://www.britannica.com... Sigmund Freud selling out the human race to the 1% and 4% that had a very little concept of how to exploit humanities humane. https://firmitas.org... Google: The Future of an Illusion by Sigmund Freud (Summary) - Firmitas.org If the link above doesn't work anymore. Freedom of information still exists. I ran out of page spaces.