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How do you want better. It is my personal theory that without religion we have no society. And not necessarily just Christianity, but any afterlife supporting religion. If you, as a human being, truly believe you live on this planet for 75 85 years and then completely and utterly wink out of existence, you have no impetus to behave in a societally beneficial manner.You look at some of these places and you should know that if something catastrophic happens and society has a complete breakdown. They'll come gut you and your family like deer in your home. Complete chaos is just a light switch away. Hell the only thing that keeps anything in check is held by a thin blue line. Without the buffer of law enforcement it would get real ugly real fast.
If you can take something from your neighbor, do it. Because eventually you're going to die. So you want to enjoy your life as much as you can as long as you can and so you gather together with the strongest people you know and you take anything you want.
Modern religious theology counters this idea by saying that if we don't behave as decent human beings and in a societally beneficial way, while we're alive, we'll face consequences after we die. This is the thin thread that holds society together. Because if there is no long-standing consequence, there is no reason to not simply band together with the strongest people you find and take anything you want from the week. No reason whatsoever. In fact, I defy an atheist to explain to me why he doesn't go and kill his neighbor and take his neighbor's wife for his own.