You're wrong

Nature isn't a religion lmao

To me the ass pull is God

I've heard some compelling arguments, but I'd like someone to respond to this, if they can

There's corruption in churches and religion

Five centuries or so ago some European church was selling Indulgences, pricey knick knacks that let you sin

There are also the pastors like Tony Spell who use their power for their own personal gain instead of the betterment of the community, the true Christian values

As well as all priests or whatever "indulging" in little kids

So this entirely constructed and composed organized belief system, or religion, has set the stage for lots of people to abuse and be abused

So if your religion is so great, why doesn't it work out in the big picture?

My belief systems don't require me or anyone else to change their beliefs or believe in anything that requires the same leap of faith as in Christianity

Not even Christians are condemned under my beliefs, unless they build some bad karma against me, but that's how it is for anyone

Nature is also just more natural to believe in. I almost feel like this post is inspired by some comments I've made. But we have the universe around, the planets, stars, our sun, the moon, forests, rivers, mountains, predators, prey, symbiotic relationships, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, fish, bacteria, cells, organs

We can observe, study, test, and define things like physics, chemistry, algebra, calculus, statistics, geometry and we can all believe that without a shadow of a doubt that they exist as absolute truths but we can ignore things like energy, vibrations, frequency even though we have tons of research and evidence to support the claims that are ignored with little regard

How is believing everything is made entirely by design by a fabricated God any more practical to believe in than say for example there exists a dense mass of energy that explodes to create the physicality that we just so happened to be birthed into

The only really good reason I've ever gotten to be religious is for the spiritual development, but I can get that through psychology, listening to philosophers, meditating, astrology, crystals

What exactly makes my way so fundamentally flawed that people who believe in things that can't even begin to be examined in the real world have the audacity to flat out deny what's plainly seen by all

Pipe down, Hans.

If you believe in a higher power or mother nature you're wrong
(at least try to find common ground first my dude)
"I always hated those religions"
(too personal... it would be preferable to state that they are easily detestable | "those"... very specific)
"there's God"
(please google the phrase "tentative vocabulary")
"there are the gods of the underworld, there's Satan, but there isn't an unintelligible higher power out there, there's no Allah"
(so you're... a Judeo-Christian bigot ? it seems unnecessary to target only specific religions... especially one that is the amongst the closest your own... why ? and if you are Christian since when have there been multiple gods of the underworld... we will admit we aren't well versed in Judaism so... let's avoid that hehe ^^)
"and there's no Thor"
( so most of what you know of Greek theology comes from... the marvel franchise ? )
"I'm atheist about such things"
(that makes no grammatical sense whatsoever... how can you be an atheist with exceptions... that's just called not believing in traits of some religions. you are dramatically misusing the word atheist)
"not atheist of gods someone didn't pull out their ass!"
(from their viewpoint the same could be said about your religion and, in addition to that, you are technically saying the gods you believe in were "pull[ed] out of someone's ass" due to the use of a double negative [1--1 = 1+1 = 2 | two negatives make a positive... try it on your calculator if you don't believe us])
"You're wrong"
-_- literal child
"in fact you're so wrong it's outside your perception and isn't sensible"
(you cannot be more than wrong... there are no such things as degrees of "correctness" you can only have better or worse reasoning. this... overkill... per se. to be quite frank, this, despite the level at which you may view it as worthy of merit, simply causes you to loose any momentum you may have had and takes away from the central arguments)
"I see my gods, so it's sensible"
(you... see them... umm... either you don't or you wanna see a therapist there my dude)
"Esse est percipi"
(you speak Latin... how cute ^^)
"to be is to be perceived, and colours and textures are experienced directly"
(that depends on what you mean by directly... the debates surrounding qualia can be very interesting so... we advise you read up on it... it's great)
"Science would lay to rest how wrong you are."
(by all means... please explain [wait... wasn't that the purpose of writing this... oh, we see... that wasn't huh ?] ^^)

I take it a step further and say there is no god, there is just what we see and observe (the sciences you mentioned). To be fair, I can't say whether there is a god that designed the things around us, or they just are that way, or some other power designed them. Furthermore, I believe it is presumptuous for us humans to assume that either there are or aren't gods without proof, let alone making rules about what god likes and doesn't like and making stories to showcase the consequences of disobeying said god. If there was a god, I bet practically all human religions would be an insult to it (who says god has a gender, let alone a "He?").

If you want to believe there is some guiding power in the universe, that's fine, well, and good though. I don't care. What I do care about is that organized religion has harmed and exploited society needlessly.