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First, achieving a stable financial situation. Then, the big goal:

Making the world better by: - Stopping the mass murder of animals - Bringing the demise of irrational practices such as religion and astrology - Pushing knowledge forward by contributing to science or teaching those who will hopefully do so, and by making the software environment tidier

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Not sure how ending religion would be better for the world. There are some religious fanatics, always will be, that will use their religion to bring about hate and violence. However there are billions of people who practice some form of religion that are peaceful people who use their religion to spread love and peace throughout the world. Don't try to throw the baby out with the bath water. Religious freedom is a cornerstone of a viable democracy.

Parent didn't say he wants to remove that freedom. Look at it as evangelizing of agnosticism.

It can be interpreted either way "Bringing the demise of irrational practices such as religion"

I find Yoism to be the missing link here.

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