I don't think religion should be banned or censored. iin?

Religion is a good mind control tool.

Virtually all wars and conflicts can be traced back to religious roots. Just think of John Lennon's song Imagine. "Imagine no religion. It's easy if you try."

Religion is eval there are more people killed in the name of Religion than anything else

I also feel like religious people should have no say in politics, unless we can start taxing their churches.

You sound reasonably well adjusted. I'm a person of faith, and I think that the biggest problem with religion all over the world comes down to people trying to force others to believe as they do. This is just my opinion, but I think that it's one of the ugliest parts of human nature that people want to control each other. Sure, various world religions have a big role to play, but just as big, and perhaps even more so is the role of one's family of origin. I think when a person comes from a family where one or both parents are very domineering and controlling that person is in danger of either being attracted to controlling and domineering types of partners or becoming a controlling and domineering sort of person.

People go to war, go to church, argue, etc over something that is a fairy tale.
Imagine if there was this much noise over something like Bigfoot? I mean like people saying others are going to hell if they do not worship Bigfoot. Religion got carried away

Well, I have went to schools that had religion forced on me, and I didn't think that was right. They wanted to teach us how to believe, how to act, how to be. That's why I am athiest. So far, I believe religion should at least not be talked about in school, because it's ashamed that kids have to follow some religion like Christianity or they are satanist. Just saying...

Religion should be outlawed and everyone given a mandatory college education or trade apprenticeship.

I dont consider myself an athiest but i dont really have a religion. I think more people should just forget about what religion people follow. As long as it isnt scientology. I dont do cults

I honest to god don't care what a religious person dose with their free time but unfortunately to many zealots make it a habit of trying to shove their faith down everyone's throat. They feel the need to be the moral police when it comes to things like sex,sexuality and just doing what ever you want(so long as it dosent hurt no one)like drugs and such. Rabid Christians are getting more and more bold because they are in a war with the equally if not more rabid Islam. I don't think religion should be banned but I do think that something needs to be done about the radicals they are the real problem.

Yes, freedom of religion is important. Also although religion has damaged a lot of things, if you study history like me, then you'll find there are a lot of ways it has helped that you wouldn't immediately think of. People actually keeping treaties instead of being in perpetual warfare is one.

I am irreligious and I think religions saved the world. They defined moral ways of living, enforcing them with supernatural elements and fear. Fear educated people all the time, either in political ways due to harsh regimes or religious ways. People who say some kill in the name of religion are wrong, it is impossible to do so since all the major religions now forbid that, labelling it as one of the biggest sins ever. When people say for example that they killed in the name of Christianity, that's a lie, because Christianity never wanted that. They used it as a pretext to kill and to start "holy wars". Islam is quite similar, although it has more radical beliefs, but still forbids killing. They have used other reasons as well, no matter the circumstance. However, religions are old and people should no longer need them to live their lives. But many still need them and this discrepancies can cause replacement, such as in Sweden where autochtonous people are atheists in big proportions and they're being flooded with muslims (the whole West is in a similar situation). Dettaching from religion causes people to enter in a deep state of relaxation, tolerance and acceptance, and in our world, that can cost you your life. Be careful, it's much more than religion itself, it was always strongly linked to politics and it will probably always be. There are many perspectives to be taken into account when deciding whether religion is harmful of beneficial.

Yeah, exactly.
Could help feed people and help others struggling with education.

I also feel like, from what I lived through, that churches like New Testament Christian Church don't really know or accept mental illness or disabilities or issues.
Like, I've ADD and depression and an IEP in math and sciences.
My parents thought if they just beat me hard enough that I'd magically understand and act "normal."
I also have anemia so I was always falling asleep in church, and I'd get beat for that too.

It's like reality and commonsense hasn't worked it's way into churches yet.

*sigh*
So kids get abused because of ignorance and arrogance.
Shit aint right.

Religion is helpful in many cases, take sufism, for instance. No-one knows how many people follow it, it can be as little as 5 percent of the islamic population, or as much as 98 percent of the islamic population. But it all goes around the ideals of peace, the portion of those who follow religion peacfully are usually very wise people, my granparents, who follow sufism very strictly, they see the idea of fighting wars over religion stupid and unethical, if the backstory of a religion is peace, they know it makes it look bad if the religion they follow is commiting jihad, or slaughtering in the name of that religion. The simple fact is, religion in SOME cases leads to violence, but it never works out. And most who SOULY follow that religion will have reason for ethics, unlike atheists, who mostly have no reason to commit anything right, they are not willing to Help anyone, and they see the idea of doing anything right for anyone to be stupid, the majority of athiests will become depressed, and religion gives people reason to live, and they will do anything with the backup of "god" to be their reason flr doing anything right.

I don't think it should be outlawed.
But it needs stricter rules.
Like, confined to certain areas, and government regulations so that no kids and women are being abused.
It should be taxed because a preacher or reverend shouldn't be rich, but in fact humble and giving to the people.
Instead, you see these rich ass fuckers with a mansion and 6 fast cars and two yachts and a vacation home in Paris and in California.
Yet it's own people are always poor and struggling to get by.
That's fucked up man.

It should also only be taught in schools if it's specifically a History of Religion, Beliefs, and Cults Class.
Separate from normal history class.

religion shouldn't be banned but it should be practiced privately and discreetly. no one wants to know and care about your religion when you try waving it around in other peoples faces

God and religion are 2 different things. You can say that there is consciousness to the universe or more to the world than we can percieve with our senses without committing to an ideology.

Everybody has a right to free speech, so I don't really have a problem with people conveying there opinions on which religion is "better" or even trying to convert others. I'm an atheist and no matter what those religious people say I'm not going to put my faith in there deity.

Religion is fine unless it's the violent religion that is Islam. My religion is Esoteric Nazism

Religion isn't censored or banned though. It's very much a part of daily life in many countries.