[Giligan]

Well, both, but I'm not entirely opposed to a spiritualistic worldview if it's within reason. There's nothing wrong with believing there's a benevolent creator, as long as you leave out the bits created by fear and ignorance. If you do leave those bits out, it stops being religion and is just more of a hopeful outlook on life. Assuming you don't let it dictate your actions and thoughts, which is the real kicker.


I suppose that what I mean by "What would the world be like if religion didn't exist?" is "What would society be like if we humans didn't believe in the same (if evolved and developed) set of beliefs our ancestors used to describe the terrifying and unknown world outside, as they huddled in ignorance in a cave, scrawling on the walls with charcoal?" Or something, yeah.


But anyway, the Iranian government is clearly a fundamentalist institution.