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You cannot change human nature, people are people, for better or for worse: You are always going to have mean people, power hungry people, aggressive people, etc. etc.
This is true, you or I cannot change people, but religion is founded on the belief that God can change people.
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The more educated a people get the more secular, the less extremist, the more vague their religious beliefs become.
This is false. To make a claim you must support it with reasoning or evidence. Saying something does not make it true. If this was acceptable I could just say something like "65% of all doctors are religious" You would be hard pressed to refute this, since you could never survey every doctor. The burden of proof lies on the person making the statement. I challenge you to present any empirical evidence to back up this statement.