Religion is fake?

Religion is for people that don't see the world for what it is. It's a planet, with all different for s of life, we all eat, shit, fuck, and die. That's all it is. Some people need to believe that there's a wonderful golden palace in the sky that they go to after death. And that's cool. Bit to be honest, I see that as kind of a cop out. It's life people. It's pain and anger and love and success, everything wrapped up into one short lifespan. You can either live your life and take it for what it is, or you can put all your chips on Jesus 23 and spin the wheel. Your call.

I hate when atheists try to push their beleifs on people. Same for christians. NOBODY knows for sure.

When I was 14-16 i was totally revolted by religion and stuff. But i understood that there's no point arguing in this stuff. People believe in what they believe it. I agree that it's annoying to hear the ''fake stories'' but it's their life

Wars are mostly religous

yes i hate how some people base their whole life on it!

Even though he is dead, George Carlin said it best. Religion is the biggest bullshit story ever told.

Religion and the bible must be true, I mean how else can you explain a man being eaten by a whale and then spat out later Alive???? That's proof right there!!!

thank you darmin. it's funny how you believe in a god, as do I. The slight annoyance that I have with religion is that it's hypocritical. Like everyone above me mentioned, the bible was just written as a moral guideline, so people would know the difference in "right" and "wrong" (which only exists because we believe in that concept). But I love to show religious people of the christian religion the one flaw that blows everything away. there are three main ingredients in the christian god.
1. All loving
2. All knowing
3. All pure.
Which was all fine and dandy, but thats not possible (more, it goes against what the bible tells us) because:
God created and creates everything in existence. That includes lucifer. lucifer="evil", which makes no sense because god is "all pure" and "all loving". well an all loving and an all pure god cant create something so "evil". You christians might look at me like a moron and say "FREE WILL", but that's just another conflict within itself. If god is all knowing, he knows before, during, and after everything that happens, or has happened. so he knows that lucifer was going to turn "evil"... but the concept of evil is a lucrative one, because, according to the christians, god could not be a part of anything evil; plus if he created lucifer="evil" then the bible is wrong because lucifer is not evil because god could not do something like that, unless he or the bible is hypocritical. so sure, an all powerful being might exist that created us, but there is no concept of worshipping it to be somewhere after death. when we die, we die. its really that simple. humans think too much. thats our problem. we really believe in "souls" and such? I mean, they may exist but not in the sense that we are making it out to be. Dogs don't give a shit about religion, and they are very content animals. which is what humans are, animals. end story.

The Bible teaches moral lessons. If god wasn't real(he is)than it was created to teach future generations the important things in life.

Actually religions were created by kings powerful rulers. The kings ordered people who could write (that is, educated people such as scribes) to write stories that the people living in the society could relate to. The stories demonstrated actions and consequences based off of how people live. So basically the morals of the stories were, if someone behaved poorly, bad things would happen. If they behaved correctly, they would receive rewards. The stories were written so the king could maintain power because the people became so terrified of doing bad things and being out of place that they had to behave for their own good. That is, the people didn't rebel, so the king kept power over the people.
Notice that scribes and educated people are towards the top of the societal pyramid in any society. And notice how little there are of them. Also notice that every single religion agrees that "if you behave well, your soul will be saved. If you misbehave, you're fucked."
Other polytheistic societies used deities to explain the unfortunate weather events that they could not explain. Poor things, they weren't too advanced in physical science and couldn't let go of their dead relatives.
so yes. Religion was made up by selfish rulers, and societies that didn't study the earth.

RELIGIONS ARE BULL!

I hate religion taxes and country, so there for im a free man

God is an inspiration of man, without religion there would be no electricity, advanced physics, understanding of gravity, astronomy, engineering, philosophy, science, genetics, etc. Also 90% of scientists believe in at least one God.

A cult, mysticism, spiritual philosophy, spiritual "science", Christian Science, Deism, non-existent religions on TV and in cartoons, a faith etc and a religion is still a religion: a belief in a higher power. It's wonderful to have fun with the religion that makes you happy. But you can't believe in them literally. Religion, like philosophy is just a theory. They ought to invent the first religion that doesn't contradict its previous parent religion, to make it consistent, so tradition will trust them without a conversion. It's only real truth if two religions, from tradition, created by the masses and has no particular leader, and actually works and is trusted, agree with each other.

Umm, you're wrong on a lot of those things. If you don't like it, don't complain, just don't practice it. It's not like they're cults, they actually bring good into this world.

I wouldn't go as far as to hate it. I won't try to change your belief; it's too hard, if not dead impossible, to change someones worldview in one comment. I do think some atheists are lied to when they are told that religion is the root of all evil. If we removed religion, which IS impossible, then things will go downhill from there. I honestly think there'd be even MORE crime then there is now. The world would be better off without extremists (of ANY kind) but removing the whole pie is NOT a good idea.

Screw religion, believe in yourself. It is a method of control. Always has been, always will be. Read Greek lierature, even they knew it and laughed at it. Read Epicurus and Lucretious. They knew it was propagando to pray to the gods. SOme people are so fugging stupid.

I don't like religion either, as in, "If you don't believe this you're going to hell," or "If you don't believe in this religion you're going to die," and you know, crappy crap like that.. but I like religion when you don't worship a powerful being or are forced to do things you think are freaking CRAZY! So I guess it's normal though many people want to follow religion. I'm not saying anything against religion, because since many people are religious you really need to have a BASIC understanding of what it's all about if people talk about it.

You people should start reading the New Testament first, especially the Revelation. And then, you will know whether religion is shit or not, or as George Carlin put,"The biggest bullshit!!" Never mind,but let me remind you all of this,"Will the Son of Man see one who believe in him when He come back," lamented Jesus. That means we are all in that Time. Jesus is coming soon.

Go watch the movie "The Invention Of Lying" for a laugh. The movie is about a world where all fiction/lying doesn't exist yet. No movies, excuses, sugar coating, stealing or religion exist, til the main character has a brain snap. He then starts lying/sinning and creates his own "Ten Commandments" and the world is at his knees. It's funny when they all start asking questions about "God" and "Heaven", if you haven't seen it, highly recommended just for that reason. If religion was created NOWADAYS, (instead of Christianity being created by the Council of Nicea in 325 AD by Constantine, back when people where gullible, had no human rights and where massacred to defer to christianity - Spanish Inquisition) then this is what you'd get portrayed in the movie with modern people (having science so advanced) asking questions that contradict the idea of religion, "God and Heaven".

I agree with you, entirely. I mean if it's true, what's there left to believe, or perhaps have a beliefs.

An old friend of mine once said when asked about her religion:
"I got my own 'cuz im clever"
and she is :)

btw on the third ling meant to say free will not we ps sorry for verybad spelling and gramur

Well to me one religion is a bunch of lies, but what I thought of is what if every religion told a little part of the truth to the universe really works. and if you don't want to believe in any religion, then just believe in your own thoughts. No one said you can't.

I know only 1 religion Its Humanity. All the others are its extensions only.
If someone cannot practice Humanity, He is ignorant and If he claims 2 be religious, he is nothing more than a Hypocrite.

No one is pushing religious beliefs here

Folklore mostly.

I agree 100 percent!!!!!

religion is a lot like nationalism, but it existed before nations existed

and before it it was the "tribes", like "the people of "Israelites"

they were a people and everyone else was the "alien others", when the tribes splitted their values (rules of life, societal decision making etc..) became religions, over time large groups that became isolated (their values changed over time relative to other groups) became nations

organized religion is a lot like any other organized central authority, and they all have a different claim to legitimacy, for religions it was a specific set of stories in a book, and the interpreters of the book became the rulers

in the end, it all comes down to power of some over others, it is the drive behind religion, governement,royalty

and authority is just an expression of the need to be "the best" and actively show that you are superior to others

this is an evolved trait, the leader of the pack gets more tail, who gets more tail reproduce more etc..

It's all about what floats your boat, man. I agree; I think religion is a waste of time and that it's also valueless, but if some people are legitimately convinced that there's an invisible man living in the sky or whatever other nonsense, then let them be.

There is a God, but hes not the God of the Bible..,

It's whatever comforts people. I'm better off without it, but that's just how I think and feel.

What I think is funny is you can have a question about religion and go to a priest and ask that question. He will give you an answer based on his beliefs and then you go to a different priest and ask him the exact same question as the first priest and get a completly different answer...there is absolutely to consistency in religion..none at all.

Feel ya man. religion is just a piace of bullshit that creating to much problems and i think we all should get rid of it and live open minded.

Its odd, I battle with this a lot. Based on the intelligent design of our world and the way it works its extremely hard to believe its all just a big bang, I mean everything works together as a well oiled machine as far as nature goes, so I do think there is a higher power that is responsible for creation, but I also believe that none of us know for a fact, meaning even if there is a god, we were not meant to know anything other than what we learn on earth. Religion has caused far more death, pain, devision and suffering than any other thing in this world, so its very hard to think its for our own good.

I personally think religion is just a control scheme, but do believe in a creator. Treat others as you would like to be treated and you cant go wrong in my book.

It is usually the religious who are concerned with helping others (ie. orphanages and hospitals). ****Atheist are usually only concerned with themselves.