A concept which is popular with people with power because it allows them to use the human's natural fear of the unknown against them.
Christianity, as well as other religions, was used hundreds of years ago as a tool to scare millions of people to give money to the Church thinking it would save their souls, and a way to kill hundreds of innocent people because of their alternative beliefs.
Egyption Pharaohs' priests told them that to get a good crossing into the afterlife, they would need a huge pyramid built which would cost thousands of lives to build.
People fought others because they didn't believe what they believed in, so they tried to convert their religion. Guess what happened?
Something invented by the humans to be meant as guidance but was taken too far
Don't force your religion on me.
1. cults with more members
2. a term for obsessively doing something
isnt that the third time you've washed your hands?
i do it religeously.
An irrational institution whose relationship with the finer aspects of human nature is essentially that of a parasite on a host.
Religion might not necessarily be the root of all evil but it certainly oils the wheels.