An idea whose time has come - the end of religion.

The past few years have seen the rise of religious fundamentalism across all major religions, except maybe Buddhism, which in itself would have been of little interest to me as in this respect I would say I am an 'a-theist' (i.e. a person without belief in a supernatural god or gods). I have no interest to engage in any discourse or debate on the existence of a god or gods, whether active interventionist or passive onlooker, but today's religious fundamentalists refuse to provide me the same courtesy.

Be it the Islamic mob violence in response to the Danish cartoons, or the rewriting of history that Hindu groups are pressuring for in as faraway place as California, they do it through the use of force (be it physical violence on the streets or the more sophisticated 'minority interest group' tactics that today's democracy unfortunately provides), making them no better than the gun-toting mugger except in this case they are trying to steal your ability and right to choose how you live (within the bounds of not being at the cost of others).

I submit that if there ever has been any evidence of an idea that does more harm than good, it is that of religion (organized or otherwise) as a social framework or basis of interacting with others in this world. Just as ideas as diverse as a flat earth, earth-centric universe or the ground-up creation of humans ala Adam and Eve, have evolved out of existence, it is time that we showed the idea of religion and an anthropocentric, interventionist god the door out of our belief systems and psychoepistemology.