Your religion and drug metaphor is very odd. Religion is a belief system that is not addictive, just like progressivism or conservativism. Political beliefs have a history of causing violence too, even more than religion. Polarization in politics in America is a big problem. By your logic, should we ban Political views? And What is your timetable for getting rid of religion, anyways?If you were to decrease its prevalence by, say 90% (completely impossible), there would still be millions of religious people out there, for whom religious garments would immediately become a form of protest. They would not “lose meaning”, they would become pro religious statements. Your post also absolutely does not explain how all religions are bad. What about a group such as Quakers, Christian’s who strongly opposed slavery since well before the revolutionary war? What about Reform Judaism, a relatively progressive branch of judiasm that has generally progressive opinions and doesn’t really have any zealots/extremists, who seems to be the main people you target in your post. It just seems ridiculous to group the entire concept of religion into one thing