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Originally posted by pradaboy
you have had a bad experience with religion, but what caused that experience? God or the people who actually did it?
ppl use different motives for different purposes, making a dictatorial community under the name "religion" does not make religion bad but the people that abuse it!
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Nah, not a bad experience. I like to think for myself, question almost everything, and live life objectively. So after blindingly following a religion (for many years) because of family/tradition, I simply thought with an open mind, did a LOT of reading, and realized the original cause of religion was to control masses through fear. I asked hundreds of people as to why bother believing in religion/god, and not one single person could give me a solid reason. And it has made literally billions of people take an insane leap of faith, which affects their lives tremendously. The corruption of religion/religious leaders today, the way it segregates all humans and the way it attempts to control the way we live our lives, is just "icing on the cake".
Unfortunately, Freud put it best when he said that religion is currently only practical to prevent anarchy/chaos. It's the easy way out to use fear instead of just educating people that killing each other is not beneficial for society as a whole.