My specific problems with religion

Pay attention to this one, there are new things you’ve not read from me before. This is the follow up to my last post.

Okay, so in my last note I talked about why I am against religion, but I really only touched on Christianity. I think ALL religion is unnecessary, and that too much of it is dangerous for it to be a justified idea. Christianity has caused so many problems and so much hate, and to me, it is the biggest cult in the world (though that’s another topic entirely). Either way, Christianity is just one religion (with many subreligions, which I will never understand), and there are many. My biggest problem with religion is it gives people ideas that they shouldn’t or don’t need to have. Gods and goddesses don’t exist, and if they do, I would happily accept any evidence shown to me. I won’t say I can PROVE that they don’t exist because you can’t disprove a negative.

Moving forward, one thing I don’t get is thinking that the force of some supreme being is guiding you or having an effect on the world. I used to believe in both of those things but I realized it was all in my head when it comes to the being guided or even talked to part, and as far as things happening in the world, it’s nature or human will making it all happen. It’s interesting to THINK that deities are causing various things to happen, but they aren’t. About the human will part, people pray for small things to happen all the time, and it can be for passing a test or for someone else to pass a test, or for someone to successfully be healed by a doctor. That takes away the credit from the person who put in the effort (or didn’t) to pass the test, and from the doctor who had the answer to someone’s problem. If that happened to you, wouldn’t you feel like you had been cheated out of the fact that it was human will that made it happen? If you were a doctor that healed someone and they thanked God or some other deity, unless you were a Christian yourself or of the religion of who they thanked (and possibly not even then), you’d likely feel insulted because YOU were the one that gave the surgery or knew what medicine or treatment someone needed, not some god or goddess.

Also, why do people pray for others? If who they are praying for doesn’t believe in the deity that is being prayed to, what difference does it make? Are there any deities even said to help out anyone regardless of if they call upon them or not? This is just one problem I have with religion.

Another problem I have with religion is it tries to teach morality, yet there are contradictions between the religions on what is moral and what isn’t. For example, if you interpreted the Bible literally, you wouldn’t know what moral even means (http://www.sacred-texts.com/bib/cv/scb/scb02.htm). Another book that would not be good to follow literally, or at all really, is the Quran (http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/quran/023-violence.htm), (that is not me being racist against Islam, for Islam is a RELIGION, NOT a race). LaVeyen Satanism (just using it as another example) doesn’t really contradict itself, but it can contradict what one thought of as moral before they found the religion depending on their moral compass (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaVeyan_Satanism#The_Nine_Satanic_Statements).

The point is, there is no clear consensus on just what morality is between religions, so who is to know what truly is right or wrong? My answer, look at cause and effect. Look at what words and actions do to people and how it affects them. You don’t need a book or ideology to tell you that killing or rape is wrong. You can know what it means to harm someone based on how they react to what is being done to them. Expanding on my previous point, another problem I have is religion causes people to claim they are moral and yet they do and say things that are immoral, whether it is immoral in an objective sense or in the context of their religion. Many Christians judge others and think badly of them due to how many things the Bible condemns, the Quran says to kill someone if you can’t get them to convert to Islam among other things.

(Quran (2:191-193) – “And kill them wherever you find them, and turn them out from where they have turned you out. And Al-Fitnah [disbelief] is worse than killing… but if they desist, then lo! Allah is forgiving and merciful.   And fight them until there is no more Fitnah [disbelief and worshiping of others along with Allah] and worship is for Allah alone.  But if they cease, let there be no transgression except against Az-Zalimun (the polytheists, and wrong-doers, etc.)” , Quran (3:151) – “Soon shall We cast terror into the hearts of the Unbelievers, for that they joined companions with Allah, for which He had sent no authority”.).

LaVeyen Satanism says if a guest in your lair annoys you to treat them cruelly and without mercy. Anyone else see why these things might be a problem? In trying to teach morality, religion is causing people to be immoral. This is not the case for all religions, but it is enough of an issue to have a problem with it.

The next problem I have with religion is it causes bigotry. Christianity is the biggest example of this (though Islam could be arguably). While it would be hard to find examples of other religions that have bigotry, for a good chunk of them seem to be peaceful, it’s terrible that ANY religion has the potential to cause bigotry. It’s bad enough that there is racism and sexism and many other ways people discriminate, we don’t need religion making it worse. Also, I know that causing bigotry is not the Bible’s intent, but that’s what it has done. For any of you reading this and thinking I shouldn’t blame the religion but the people for what they do with it, if the religion didn’t exist, it’s likely the people would not be how they are because of it. Don’t justify that which has caused undeniable, awful consequences. This goes for all religions which have caused someone to be a bigot, known widely or not.

Yet another issue I have with religion is that if ANY of them are right, which one is it? It’s not Christianity, for Jesus was made up from other stories just like his (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2kO7MRWyEY). All religions seem to claim they are the correct one, so how is anyone supposed to know which one of them is correct? My thoughts? NONE of them are correct. They are all made by man and thus have NO credibility.

The last problem I have with religion is it simply isn’t needed and is unnecessary. We live in an era of reason and logic, where we are able to think for ourselves and we don’t need some ideology telling us what to do or think. You have a brain, use it. All religions are a lie, all gods and goddesses are a lie, and believers are fooling themselves. This is the one shot we get at life, make the most of it.