Imagine a world without religion?

[Kendodd]

Not that it never existed, just that people didn't believe in it now. No forced bans on religion, people just stopped believing on their own. So we could still look back at the culture artifacts and traditions. We could still keep and celebrate the festivals and traditions, only the good ones though.
I don't think this would suddenly lead to world peace btw. Its just one less thing to hate each other for though.

They're not all rooted in religion, graduation ceremonies for example. And even if they are rooted in religion, so what. Most religious rituals/celebrations are rooted in the belief systems that went before them.

This is totally false.

Anglo-Saxon, early British, Celtic and Saxon communities were orderly, organised, and very civilised. The Vikings were an expansionist society, true. All these societies used force to attack and defend, just as nations have done throughout history.

Are you really so ignorant as to think that Christians invented the notion of love thy neighbour (ie the importance of community bonds) etc etc?

what is you opinion of the Romans and Ancient Greek contribution to world philosophy ?

And wasn't late Roman Britain already Christian? It was a matter of re-Christianising the Saxon kingdoms later, I thought.

It would just be something else though , sone other ideology.
north Korea isn’t a state based on religion is it?
the Russian revolution wasn’t a religious uprising either?
people like to fight and argue and get into tribes and kill each other!

Yes, ideological, controlling, inhumane cults don't need religion to exist.

TBH I’d put the birth of religion down to people trying to explain things they couldn’t otherwise even begin to understand. Their intelligence/curioisity would demand explanations, so they came up with one that seemed to fit the bill (in various forms) for countless generations.

Well, yes, as I said, the birth of imagination. Apparently, according to this book, early humans plodded about for thousands of years, similar to the way animals do, then suddenly, a great leap forward in cognitive ability!!! This is about the time, what might be described as religion appeared, people having ceremonies, wearing jewellery, art etc. Fascinating book, if you haven't read it.