I grew up non-religious (mostly) but I also was a boy scout, I read Hardy Boys, and I naively thought that we were (again, mostly) working towards building a better world for each other and we all had a responsibility to do our part for each other. When I went camping, or to parks, the mindset was "leave it better than you found it". And I thought most other people generally felt the same. But now I mostly just feel like a big middle-aged dork when I pick up Taki's and Orero wrappers at the playground.

Now it feels much more like "everything is going to shit so grab what you can while you can". I don't know if the world changed, or I was just painfully naive.

Everyone has a religion (belief system guiding morals, values, and actions).

Some of them involve deity.

These things were always there. Social media just made these blow up into people s day to day life. A big part of this whole mess is Facebook. They removed anonymity from the internet, which means fringe beliefs are now accepted by real people.

Boy this sure sounds like old religion, which is also not enough.

Religion came from one of two places: it was either created by deity, and/or it evolved alongside humanity. In either case, we should neither throw it away lightly, nor be surprised that the behaviors associated with it endure.