Religion May Decline. Humanity Must Not.

People are increasingly abandoning traditional religion, often because they wish to avoid feelings of guilt or personal responsibility for their actions, or because they find its claims incompatible with logic and evidence.

Regardless of the reasons, the prospect of a society without religion deeply concerns me. Religion has long provided shared moral standards that encourage individuals to treat others with greater decency and restraint. In its absence, I fear we risk eroding our shared humanity. Many people struggle to independently adopt coherent ethical frameworks, leaving "right and wrong" dangerously open to subjective interpretation—often untethered from common sense or consistent principles.

If religion continues to decline, we urgently need a robust alternative: a logical, evidence-based, and common-sense system capable of instilling order, curbing destructive impulses, and guiding society toward virtue and cooperation.