Maybe next time you should think a littler harder before you type and try to troll me. I know we used to say khwiii was Zelaron's most worthless member but you're starting to take his spot.

A lot of the origins of music were also rooted in religion, and many of the advances were inspired by religious subjects as well.

Religion is the original "greater good" cause, meaning that it was the first thing to unite people in mind (spirit for those that believe) as well as body. While it's true that something else may have done the same eventually, it likely wouldn't have happened until much later as logic and reason became prevalent.

Faith is an undesirable thing for any thinking person to posess. If the world was based on fact, and people actually tried to scientifically ascertain not a mere belief - but a theory on the subject of a Godhead supported by theories tested extensively (such as gravity) - and did not approach anything dogmatically or be willingly ignorant - the world would indeed be a utopia.

That will never happen.

I am saddened that humanity can't see that their man-made stories explaining existence are at fault compared to factual evidence. Factual evidence is really all we can use in determining the existence of a god. I really hate calling it god, but it seems that term is powerful in the world we live in, so I'll use it.

I can write a work of fiction containing believable physics of this world and use the identities of individuals to make it sound true - but does that make it less fictitious?

Alternatively, I am capable of acting out a series of events and arrive at the same path that I could have written, but it actually happened.

See how a story differs from fact? The problem is, all religions find some way to excuse themselves from being tested in one way or another. The reason is too much resides on faith.

I'm currently reading a book by Christopher Hitchens titled God Is Not Great - How Religion Poisons everything, anyone interested on how religion has held back society as a whole should give it a read

That book was great, though I personally prefer the God Delusion by Dawkins.

I might have to give that one a look after I finish this one