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Religion is in my opinion what cause nearly every conceivable issue in human
existence,without the influence of religion todays landscape would be a vastly different
and better place.The churches repression of free,as they realized was necessary for the
propagation of theology, effects not only impacted the middle and dark ages but rather
had a long lasting effect on scientific progress as demonstrated in this graph.
Think of where humanity could have progressed to with out the influence of the
church, It i very well possible that without this terrible influence we would be living in a
largely different place, you may see flying cars space travel a near end to illnesses but
this is not the world we are living in we are living in a world create by still present effects
of the church.
The next logical question is how was this allowed to happen.It is rather simple,
the church took advantage of our own inherent weakness and exploited them. Take this
idea as an example, a child whom under circumstance without intervention would grow
up as a believer in the Christian faith is taken at birth before indoctrination could occur
and isolated from society would rather take the path he would have normally grow up
either as an atheist or form his own belief differing from the faiths we know of
commonly . This i believe is why atheist on average score higher on theology
exams,because religion has the need to indoctrinate in order to thrive,those who
succumb to I personally am of the opinion that the child would create his own belief
system would more likely occur as mythology and religion, which really are one in the
same, develop solely because of a lack of knowledge. This can been seen in the
correlation between education and atheism and lower average iq scores amongst
religious people.
. As a nation the
U.S is not as many believe the smartest nation,this is not true while the united states
has a relatively high iq compared to all of these nations the us has one of the lowest iqs
of the industrialized nations of the world. This one can assume is why the united states
has the highest religious importance score of any industrialized nation. The failings in
schools in this country cause people to look towards
religion to fill in the shortcomings of our current
educational system. This can be seen again with a
movement to teach the “theroy” of intelligent design
One may dismiss currently accepted scientific theory
however in order to do so adequate evidence must be provided. This evidence for
intelligent design has not been presented. This is why the idea must be
dismissed ,because if we do not teach our children that these ideas are fact then we
can lead them away from the indoctrination of religion and towards progress.
Religion not only stifles human progress through the repression of ideas but also
through the death and destruction that it leaves in it’s path. an estimated 809 million
people have died in religious wars, that is more than double the amount of people killed
Genesis 7:4-10
New International Version (NIV)
4 Seven days from now I will
send rain on the earth for forty
days and forty nights, and I will
wipe from the face of the earth
every living creature I have
made.”
“That which can be asserted
without evidence, can be
dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
in the name of hitler or communism combined. Why
would anyone willingly follow a group that has caused so
many needless killings. Religion has an innate need to kill,
without killing it cannot reach it’s just the same as the
previously mentioned movements of hitler and communism religion needs to kill in
order to thrive. Not only is this idea present in the churches and followers around the
world it is also present in the corresponding mythology in the bible god himself killed
2,476,633 people. If you include How many God drowned in the flood or burn to death
in Sodom and Gomorrah or how many first-born Egyptians he killed. The number comes
to the staggering estimated total of 25 million. Tis is why i not only do not believe that
religion is true but rather sincerely hope that it isn't. Not because of me but rather
because of the heinous crimes committed by god in the text of the bible.
A common argument is that religion provides morality and with out it there are no
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grounds for objective morality within humanity. This is not true morality does not come
from religion but rather from biology and society. religion’s morality it self is not divinely
ordained but rather a reflection on the authors own morality which stemmed from
societal influences, thus man does not receive his morality from religion, rather religion
receives its morality from man. This then begs the question is better to do good for god
or as a selfless act, a Christian man may donate his time at a homeless shelter and
work along side an atheist.The christain man is there because it is what he belives will
bring him eternal life however the atheist man is there because he belives not in
mythology but rather in helping others. while both lead to the same end result of helping
people on one man is truly there for a morally good reason. only one man is there to
help people and not himself this man is the atheist. I then fail to see how the notion of a
deity brings worth through morality, and if it dosen’t then truly what is the purpose.
Religion as it seems has caused nearly all of human suffering,without it then
wouldn’t everyone be much happier? No religion in it’s core is a method for the
uneducated to cope with the idea of death, this however is in essence the foundation
upon which religion has been allowed to intrude society. Religion preys upon the most
basic scientific fault in man, mans fear of death, a fear driven by biology. This is not to
say that he world would not benefit from a lack of religion as i believe without it these
uneducated people would be able to receive a much better education unhindered by the
churches influence,this would lead to overarching effects on the basic well-being of
humanity.
God is if in existence not good . There are over 8 million deaths of children
under 5 years of age every year,Most of these children are religious but more
importantly most of these children’s parents are religious as well. And when these
children die these parents hope and pray for salvation for their children, but most of
these parents are praying to the wrong god, most of these children are dying in deloping
countries like india. india population is mostly hindu and just because these people were
born into the wrong culture Christians believe that the god that created and put them in
this situation will for this reason condemn these children and their parents to hell. Wat
makes this especially interesting is the notion that a man on death row, who has spent
his whole life raping and killing children only has to accept jesus and repent right before
his death in order to receive an eternal place in heaven. How than can this god be
good? When someone who kills children could very well be saved for eternity whilst
children suffer eternally in hell just because they were born in the wrong place. The
place they were born has a culture which Christians believe was created by god is the
very reason these children will be required to suffer eternally. This is the double
standard that allows for go to be perceived as good when something good happens to a
Christian they say that it must be because of god, however when anything bad happens
like the deaths of millions of children “god works in
mysterious ways”. How can human understanding be
applied only to the positive yet have it fail solely in the
negative how can a god stand idly by and whatch the
deaths of children and let their killers roam free? To answer
the latter question you must ask if god is good why does he not prevent these
things,and if he is not able to then what can he do. If god is unable to save lives from
needless deaths how could god have created everything, how could god have this
power but not use it. if god can do all that is said in genesis and he is good why not
enact his power more often.
Is God willing to prevent evil,
but not able? Then he is not
omnipotent. Is he able, but not
willing? Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing?
Then whence cometh evil? Is he
neither able nor willing? Then
why call him God?~Epicurus
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