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Good question, and Aristotle gives you part of the answer. In his
How dangerous are religions that oppose population control?
How important is religion to social order--are religious codes of conduct more powerful (because of the threat of eternal damnation or something equivalent) than civil codes? As hedonistic as our societies have become, how much more so would they be without wide spread religious belief?
Rick