I will go with this thought from "A Basic Call to Consciousness" by the Six Nations which include the Iroquios, and is the same as thinking found in the Greek and Roman classics:
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"The Peacemaker came to the people with a message that human beings should cease abusing one another. He stated that humans are capable or reason, that through that power of reason all men desire peace, that the people organize to ensure peace, and that it is necessary that the people organize to ensure that peace will be possible among the people who walk on the earth."
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Reason brings us to attempt to understand how things work. I think we are better off without the supersitition of a Zeus like God and Satan, angels and demons.
What can we do to increase reason and diminish the harm of superstition? Educated the people. We must counteract the falsehoods of religion, which go beyond superstition and preventing the development of scientific explanations, to teaching prejudice against those who are not members of the faith. Teaching people to feel superior to and to fear those who are different, and that others do not have God and morals, is a terrible evil, that only education can correct. Atheist are not helping at all when they insist on making an issue if God exist or not. They support the belief of Christians with their arguements.