Consider that the majority of humanity has believed in some god or another for nearly as far back as we can trace societies. Consider the fact that throughout that same length of time man has been killing man, robbing, raping, abusing, hating, warring, denigrating, assaulting and refusing to hold the elevator door for their fellow human beings. You’ll have a hard time convincing me that a world without a belief in gods could be worse. At the worst it wouldn’t be any different than our world is now. There’s no reason to believe it couldn’t even be an improvement.

The only way democracy and religion are connected is that they are both ideals. In their purest form they both establish inhuman standards. We all do that to some degree. Many of us plan our day down to the minute. I dare say that in most cases our ideal schedule has suffered a few adjustments due to reality. The ideals, democracy and religion, likewise get adjusted and tweaked to accommodate our humanity. Absolute morals create a “guilt” factor to decision making, meaning we’ll most likely make social and political decisions based on emotion (feeling or avoiding guilt) rather than reason.