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reasons why religion sucks
From Anarchopedia
- There are too many religions, how does a believer know he picked the right one?
- Offers religious people the wrong understanding of the world they live in
- Has caused many wars
- Further separates and classifies people
- Full of contradictions
- No proof other than the inability to disprove
- Does not agree with science
- Disrespects the hard work of the scientific community
- Religious claims have yet to have scientific backing
- People do not need religion to have morals (ex: learn to respect others, not kill or steal)
- Waste of time
- Waste of money
- Waste of space
- Waste of lives
- All churches would be better off being shelter for poor people
- Religion unites people for the wrong reasons
- Leaders often times use religion to bring their people to their sides
- Most religions are outdated and lack any historical backing
- No scientific or supernatural occurrences have been discovered yet
- Religions change and evolve overtime depending on the general populations beliefs
- Does not explain life before life
- No way to know what comes after death
- Easily accepted by naïve people
- Religions do not respect each other
- Religion does not make people more comfortable
- Religions are corrupt in many levels
- Though different in names, most major religions are all similar, somewhat proving that they really come from the same source
- If god knows the future then there is no free will
- Has caused hate crimes
- Heavily religious countries have not shown to be “better†off
- Discriminates against free thinkers
- Discriminates against harmless people with different beliefs and sexual orientations
- Can give probable cause for anyone to do anything “I slit her throat because god told me toâ€
- Many animals have been killed due to religious sacrifices
- Does not disprove atheism legitimately
- Operates on scaring believers by using places like hell and eternal punishment to keep them in line
- Many people have been killed due to religious sacrifices
- Religions are taught in schools as fact
- Many children are raised religious at a young age without a choice to reason and choose what they want to believe
- Prayers have yet to have been proven to be effective
- No “miracles†have been documented
- Religion does not offer a valid explanation of the world around us
- Religion confuses people
- Some religions do not allow its believers to question their faith
- Religion requires blind faith
- Religion is not the cause for technological advancements, in fact, it only slows it down
- Older religions have trouble accounting for new scientific discoveries that directly contracting the religion
- God has yet to show up and give us an update on wtf is going on
- Things such as guardian angels, reincarnation, resurrection have yet to have been proven or witnessed
- Even the most religious people tend to mourn and fear death, despite the fact that heaven appears to be a very nice place – contradiction?
- Religions often imply social classes, negating the equality of people
- Religions often induce odd behaviours like:
- speaking to non-existent beings
- kneeling
- associating circumstance with the act of higher beings or deities
- the worshipping of books as 'masters'