Religion just creates problems. Do we really need religious freedom?

Religious freedom creates far fewer problems than any attempt to remove it.

How do you know until you try it?

You want me to go to China or the middle east to see what lack of freedom of religion is like? How about we try dictatorship instead of democracy, just to make sure?

botheration,
Your conclusion that humanism is not a religion ignores the fact of what religion means. Any system of belief that ends in "ism" is a system of, or state of belief or a set of rules for people to live by either enforced or allowed by a free State. The term "Religion" is not defined by Theism alone as many religions have no belief in Theism. Buddahism denies the existence if a deity yet it is defined as a "religion" in any Government document. Humanism is exactly a religion if people follow and live by its principles.

"4: a cause, principle, or system of beliefs held to with ardor and faith

The last might include humanism, but the common definition is clearly contained in one and two. It seems to me pretty obviously disingenuous to claim humanism as a religion."