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CMV: While "Radical Islam" is currently the religion causing issues across the world, it is really just the next iteration of religions as a whole acting to tear people apart.

Regardless of the particular belief, the real problem is that religion has NO PLACE in the modern world. It was used as a method of explain wonders of the world when there were no other ways. Now we have advanced technologies and established scientific methods which can answer those questions for us as well as many more that religions would deem heretical by their mere existence. 

The argument that religion "teaches morals" isnt solid either. Read directly, most stories from the bible/Torah/Quran are brutal and teach morals in direct contrast with today's standards and/or laws. Usually the stories we tell young children are so watered down that they're barely reminiscent of the original story. 90% of practicing people use religion as a safety net for their fear of a lack of an afterlife while the others use it to support lunatic beliefs.

Religion absolutely has done *SOME* good and has brought meaning to many people's lives, but that doesn't mean it's the best path for us to continue down. As a planet we need to work together. Man-made separations such as religions and borders only work to separate us and invent reasons to not trust our neighbors.
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A radical or fundamentalist perspective on religion is a distinctly modern phenomenon. Prior to the modern era, religion and religious institutions were not seen as these marginal sidelined things. They were mainstream concentrations of power, wealth, and divine knowledge, and basically everyone had a religion they were born into. Heaven and Hell were literal real places and had physical locations (in the sky and under the earth), and the church was the formal institution which connected you to them. Being religious wasn't a marker of identity like it is today--the catholic church has been around more than a thousand years and in medieval Europe, it was the most permanent thing around. So it had an obvious function. Faith wasn't magic, it was the most logical thing around. It was a logical response to a confusing and uncertain world.

As you pointed out, technology and science have sidelined religious beliefs which are demonstrably untrue. Plenty of religious people today (in developed countries especially) are fine with giving God a smaller role in public life, as the have longer lifespans, better health, and most public institutions are run by the state instead of by the church. (or the mosque). For most religious people today, faith communities offer a family, tradition, ritual, and a sense of togetherness. It has a place in modern life, and that place is non-political for the most part, but still can offer a lot in terms of emotional support. 

But on the radical side, consider: capitalism and politics offer solutions only to material problems. Life in a developed democratic capitalist country is pretty comfortable and practical, but it provides no definitive answers as to what we should *do* with ourselves. Modern ideologies do not offer solutions to spiritual problems. Regardless of what advancements we make you're still gonna die someday. (unless you go for that anti-aging Singularity crap like Ray Kurzweil, which is in itself a kind of faith). And if you grow up without a community or a close family, without access to modern amenities, under an autocratic regime where power is concentrated beyond a place you can touch, then radical faith offers a LOT. You suddenly have spiritual certainty that your uncomfortable and difficult life isn't just a stupid pointless thing where you die in the ground--it's a thorough test of your toughness. You have knowledge that the divine kingdom will outlast any oppressive governments or other institutions. You have a mission and an underdog identity and a new group of friends. Those in power call you stupid, and it just makes you prouder that you've glimpsed at eternal secrets they'll never understand. "It teaches morals" is a diluted way of saying of what radical faith actually offers: an alternative value system not based on material reality. Religion has always offered that, now it's just a way more radical thing to say in light of what we know about the empirical world. 

You seem to be arguing that the pursuit of radical religion divides us and hinders progress; practitioners of radical faith would agree, as that's exactly what they're trying to do. It's not a "we're in it all together" sort of mentality--it's a "the saved vs. the sinners" mentality, and it is much stronger than you give it credit for. Scorning it only makes it grow.