Originally Posted by
rickair7777
Yes they encourage prolific repreduction.
But even without religion people will reproduce, it's fundamental to our nature, far more ingrained than any tendency towards religion. Religions might aggravate the issue, but eliminating religion will not solve it.
They have done more than just aggravate the issue, they have enabled it greatly. Eliminating religion would solve lots of things, but that's for a chat over beers.