Okay, before i start i must say, you must leave your religion at the door, otherwise youll probably get mad at me, cause im really critic om something as ambiguous and complex as religion.
First lets start defining religion:
A religion is a set of common beliefs and practices generally held by a group of people, often codified as prayer, ritual, and religious law.
(According to wikipedia.)
So, as you can see the main concept defines nothing concrete. Its not "a group of people following the dogmas of a certain entity", its a group of people thinking the same and doing the same stuff. My definition would be, a man made source of faith that determines what is bad and what is good. We need insurance, man is dependant by nature. We need something or someone telling us if what we are doing is right or wrong.
This subject was chosen cause of Manja (a friend) telling me to talk about how she considered "christianity the biggest and oldest witchcraft in history". At first i disagreed cause i thought witchcraft was those religions against christianity but then we cleared up. We are going to define the term "witchcraft": beliefs that have no concrete basis and cannot be proven in any way, pretty much like "magic". By this point some people will be like " :O HOW CAN HE DARE SAY THAT???" well, the thing is theres people who believe in evidence and things that cannot be proven wrong. And you see, in this way, almost all religions become something without a clear basis, all in a hear-say basis, all started by those who wanted to create the religion. Why? Because every single person on this earth needs something to believe in. Tell me, have you been into an atheist country? A country where the general religion is not have any. No, cuz there isnt any. We all need a sense of safety.
I was raised as a catholic, yet my family is one of those that lead, not one of followers, so we criticize and make our own decisions, so in my family theres no clear religion. Like as an example, we can take catholicism, as far as we know Jesus Christ could have been a guy who just wanted us all to be happy and treat each other real nice, and he died on the cross just to prove the point. But through ages the current biggest organization in the whole world, that goes by the name of the church, realized how gullible people are and how much power the could adquire. So they changed the whole story of he giving happiness to one of, if you dont support him youll pretty much rot in hell. In my opinion, this is a clear way of making people go to church and giving the church the power it currently has.
One day i was in a summer house with some people, and there were two guys with whom i agreed in everything, we had an almost parallel way of life. And we went into the subject of religion. One of them has a Jehovas witness girlfriend, and he was describing how the religion is. I was shocked. Apparently her grandfather said she wasnt her niece, just because she wasnt a devote Jehovas witness. He basically said she was dead to him, just because she didnt follow the religion as strongly as he did (because she IS a Jehovas witness, it wasnt cause she wasnt one, it was cause she didnt follow it strongly). I mean, how can people be willing to lose family because of a bunch of beliefs? I wouldnt even do it with a guy who i dont talk that much to, to just stop talking to him cause he follows Buddha and i dont. How about the case in which a girl finds the love of her life and he just happens to have a different religion and the parents just dont approve of it?
We've reached a world ruled by beliefs. People killing other cause of not following their beliefs. Even those who said "You will not kill.". The catholic church had the inquisition, when they tied philosophers up to stakes and burned them on the fires started on their books and writings, just because they had the nerve to dare and challenge the popular belief. The inquisition was just killing people who threatened their power. Don't believe me? What if a guy, a random guy, finds buried on the ground a proof, a proof that cannot be proved wrong, that Jesus Christ didnt exist? If the church found out about this before it went public, do you think they will come up to the guy and say "ohh yeah, all this years we were wrong, we are gonna clear all this confusion up" and go have a talk to the world about how all this 2000 years they were wrong? Ohhh nooo, they guy, the proof, and everyone with the knowledge about it will dissappear misteriously.
As a quick summary, religion is just an organization, and we should all learn to believe in ourselves. If we have those who we know truly exist all believe in a person who may or may not exist, then who will believe in us? To me, we should all believe in ourselves and the people around us. And we dont need someone to tell us what is wrong and what is right, we have the common sense to determine this for ourselves.
I finish with a quote:
"Now it is such a bizarrely improbably coincidence that anything so mindbogglingly useful [the Babel fish] could have evolved by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as a final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God. The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing." "But," says Man, "the Babel fish is a dead giveaway isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED" "Oh dear," says God, "I hadn't thought of that," and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic."
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