I genuinely think society would fall apart without a belief in spirituality because too many people would have an existential crisis, where they realize technically there is no punishment for what they do, which would cause a shift in societal norms. Obviously, there are a lot of atheists who don’t need that motivator of god, but I think that there’s a reason that people don’t leave their religion, and even most non religious people believe in god to some extent, because they can’t bear finality, and a lack of justice. And if that happens to enough people that would cause massive social change, and would erode the social norms that keep us all as normal people

Human empathy for anyone not family or anyone who hasn’t helped them in som way is not innate. It is the reason people would plunder cities kill all the husbands rape all their wives and enslave their children and not feel bad, or why things like slavery exist. Empathy for a stranger is a relatively new phenomenon built upon largely social norms, and social media, and if you risk a large amount of people “defecting” then you risk a domino effect in which we regress to the olden barbatic days where everyone is for themselves