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I think that one philosopher said it best (paraphrasing because I'm no good at quotemining): in order to make religion less shitty, we need to do something about the shitty conditions that gave rise to it.
I don't think metaphysics is real though. The material world is all there is. When I say there is nothing after death, I mean that the chemistry inside your body that makes you alive stops functioning, and that's all that happens.
EDIT: to be clear, I'm not anti-religion. It's just that powerful people have a habit of using religious thinking for self-aggrandizement, shutting down criticism, and for justifying exploitation. It's not a coincidence that missionaries came hand in hand with colonizers