Originally Posted by
AK Caster
Organized religion is about two things and that is power and controlling people. The basic premise is to invent something that cant be seen, felt, or heard and then make up rules how you should obey it. When something bad happens then its...…..oh well, free will and all, etc.
There is NO God that would sit idly by and watch people get massacred in the name of holy wars, the holocaust, cancer in children, pedophiles in the clergy, etc. If there is a God that allows these things to continue then what type of God is there?
Once in awhile someone will be medically "cured" by a miracle. Total hogwash. You want to show me a miracle? Show me someone who grew back a finger, hand, arm, foot, etc.
I have observed there are two types of people attracted to religion. The first are children who are forced to believe what their parents believe. The second are aging people who desperately want to cling to the notion there is everlasting life in the kingdom of heaven. Far more people would come out of shadows and admit they did not believe if their circle of friends would not blackball them. I have heard firsthand from friends that go to church and tell people they believe in God so their own business is not blackballed. And others who say they really don't believe, but just in case they are wrong they act like they do so they get everlasting life.