Any source of profound hope can be used as a tool for hate by the hateful, but religion has served very important community functions that we haven’t really replaced as we move to atheism, to our own detriment.

I’ve found some of Britt Hartley’s videos on the topic of secular spiritualism (gag at the term) kind of eye opening (and easy to consume) as an atheist myself. This part is this video in particular was great