Nonreligious people commit same crimes like the ones committed by the religious. However, that is not a justification for crimes. A crime is a crime. So, If nonreligious and religious people commit the same crimes, then why religions claim the ownership of morality?! and why do we believe that without religion there will be no morals?
Nonreligious people commit crimes because they are people not because they are nonreligious. Religious people commit similar crimes in spite of being religious, also because they are people.
So, what advantage did religion give to those criminals? except for forgiveness or justification. Actually, many have used religion to justify their crimes like during the Inquisition.
Again, responding to Polygamy, euthanasia, and fetuses. The norm to you, us, and the west, monogamy is unacceptable and considered a crime because that is our norm. 150 years ago slavery was very normal not a crime, now it is considered a horrendous crime. The prophets of God, Abraham, Issac, and Jakob, and the chosen people of God had polygamy as a very normal part of life, not a crime until 2000 years ago. Nowadays, Polygamy is very normal in many parts of the world. In spite of our culture and our religious background criminalize polygamy, it is not a crime in the rest of the world.
Actually, Polygamy could be a very reasonable and the only solution for a society to survive and not extinct if most of its men died in wars. This hypothetical society would be left with a ratio of several women to each surviving man. It would make sense for each man to take more than one wife to balance the problem and ensure the fertility of the remaining females to have a new generation large enough in number for this society to survive. Most animal societies are based on polygamy to ensure the survival of the fittest in the species.
See, It's all relative, a religious crime here is not a crime there! A crime today was not a crime yesterday and vice versa. Right and wrong, good and bad, culture, religious rules are all variables depending on where and when we are. We have the brains and the knowledge to set our own rules based on our humanity. And we must assign only intelligent, knowledgeable people not ignorant people to set the rules. And I add never assign someone who's an asset is only the knowledge of religion to set the rules because the knowledge of one religion is ignorance of other religions and most importantly ignorance of science and knowledge. And it is very obvious with countless evidence that science and knowledge are the pillars of advance to a better life.
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