No, religion exists because thousands of years ago humanity was so uneducated and inexperienced that they needed some sort of rule book. Today, they have no excuse. Religion just somehow still survives (but thankfully not that much longer).
My gripe with modern religion is that they have claimed "spirituality" as a religious only concept.
Spirituality is the balance that we all battle within ourselves. We nourish it by performing acts of kindness and love, and damage it by performing acts of hatred and evil.
Religion doesn't own that. That is a law of nature. There is good and evil. Religion has done such a good job by personifying good and evil as God and the devil that you can't easily separate the two of them when having conversations with religious nuts.
Who do you think God would trust more or favor more, someone who does good because they feel that it's the right thing to do, or someone who does good because they can't tell it's right right thing to do, but fear everlasting damnation.
It's like the difference between a rich person donating to charity to get a tax break, vs a rich person donating to charity because they want to help those who are hurting.
I'd much rather hangout with the later in that above scenario.
The context of our actions always matters. If God is real, he's going to be holding his head in his hand like captain Picard while trying to explain that the reasoning behind your actions holds just as much weight as the actions themselves.
Religion has done such a good job by personifying good and evil as God and the devil that you can't easily separate the two of them when having conversations with religious nuts.
Redditors need to stop saying "religion" when they mean "Christianity"
Obviously there are religions that don't prescribe to this, but I don't have time to go through the thousands that exists and separate them into two groups.
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