The biggest scam that ever was: Religion?

Question

First off, let me start with saying that I used to believe in Christianity, but as I grew up I discovered how much garbage it all is.
First off, religion would be MUCH more respectable if it was based on logic using our current understanding of the universe and the world. The Abrahamic god of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam emerged in early bronze age tribal societies where superstition and ignorance were the rule. These societies had no intellectual tradition of logic and reason, and they placed no value on logic and reason. The idea of logic and reason as things to be sought after, practiced, or valued wouldn't even exist for another couple of millennia. Their ancient superstitions are the basis of modern Western religion, not any logical or rational thought. This basis is as far from logic and reason as you can get.

Answer 1

So what's your question?

Answer 2

Your first error is in assuming that the Abrahamic religions represent all religions. That's not the case at all.

The second error is in believing that all religion dismisses logic and science.

The third error is in stating that ancient Eastern tribal superstition is the basis of modern Western religion. Wrong again.

SOME religions have those traits. Not all.

There is a secular humanist church. There are logical Satanic churches, which, contrary to the name have NOTHING to do with the Christian concept of Satan. There are Pagan faiths that closely study modern science and strive toward a solid logic.

Don't dismiss all religion simply becaue one left a bad taste in your mouth.

Answer 3

1) The Abrahamic religions all started in the Middle East, so they are not Western religions.

2) Nothing is based on logic, as logic is a formal tool, not a foundational tool. For instance, modern science is structured in logic, but based on observation.

3) I don't see a question in your writing here, but give you credit for seeing through the fraud that is Abrahamic (pseudo) thought. The problem is, this does not exhaust the definition of the word religion.

Answer 4

So because you have left the faith, you want to destroy it? Well, you are entitled to your opinion, but my opinion is that you never really were a Christian, You were probably brought up in a home that practised Christianity or a form of it. Then when you went to a higher level of schooling your professors told you there is no God and you thinking them so wise believed. As for me and my house we honour God.

Answer 5

to assert faith confident people there's a 'guy who lives in a sky that created everyone and each thing' is an incredible injustice against it This view isn't shared in the time of each and every faith i desire to advise examining up on the a number of international religions - Hinduism, Zoroastrianism, Buddhism, Judaism, Islam, Christianity and so on earlier making one in each and every of those fact some religions conceal the recommendations of atheism, pantheism and panentheism - aswell as theism unfastened your techniques :)

Answer 6

Wow, you make a lot of good points, yep, it is not logical that God would send His only Son to die on the cross for you and I, but, well, logical or not, He did, because He loves us. Go in peace.

Answer 7

For the most part, religions aren't scams.
They are merely mankind's answers to
questions that aren't supposed be answered
to begin with.

If tomorrow were truly known, life
would curl up and die.

The only thing we can be sure of is this:
if we're here, then we're possible.

Answer 8

You are free to think what you want. But know this. It's based on faith not logic or your reasoning. If you are ok with knowing that there is nothing after you die that's your right. I choose to beleive that by faith I am save and that after death I will know life again.

Answer 9

Circle does not mean spherical for the dude above me, and many religions said the word was flat until it was proven to be round... oh yes even catholicism and the rest of christianity. Religion is the biggest scam ever I fully agree with you.

Answer 10

You stumbled in the first sentence if Christianity was what you believed in and not the living God.

Answer 11

I am sorry to hear that you left the faith. Did you know in the bible it states that the earth was round thousands of years before science discovered it? There are so many other fascinating facts about the bible if you are willing to search.


Isaiah 40:22
It is He who sits above the CIRCLE of the earth, And its inhabitants are like grasshoppers, Who stretches out the heavens like a curtain And spreads them out like a tent to dwell in