The original question was:
Do you think that religious belief has saved us from extinction?
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Religious belief is one the prime factors driving us TO extinction. Specifically, the utterly bat-shit doctrine of ‘dominion’. Too many humans think that the Earth, and its biosphere, is humanity’s property. That wasn’t TOO harmful until a few hundred years ago.
That insanity, plus fossil fuel use, and the consequential impact on the environment has triggered far too many positive feedback loops. We are circling the drain, mostly due to catastrophic climate change.
We will be gone within a few decades, just another failed evolutionary experiment.