In my society or the society at large Religion has been my basic concern, have been seeing the role religion is playing, the positive and negative aspect of it.
So today you will tell me the positive and negative impact of it in your society or Environment.
I go first,the positive aspect of it have seen is it brings unity among group of people, while d negative aspect of it is too much;
(1) so many people have been brain washed all in the name of Religion
(2) people spends more time to their religion which has affected so many lives
(3) people think religion will liberate them from poverty.
I think part 2 of your list is actually a valid point, in a good way. Religion demands of us to think about others and invest time in going to the mess and to pray. While some people find that lost time, it depends what we would do instead during that time. Instead of going to. Sunday church we would probably just stay in bed and don't do anything productive. Or what about praying in the evening, if we wouldn't do that we could go out drinking, which is also bad.