are religions a mith?

Answer 1

Religions are entirely real. They are actual cultural phenomena which can be easily observed.
Any specific religion is a myth.

Answer 2

No, but they're "myths."

It's a truism that extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. Religion makes extraordinary claims (that supernatural all-knowing all-seeing magical sky people created us, watch over us, control everything, etc.).
However, not only is no extraordinary proof offered for these claims, NO proof is offered.

All stories of such supernatural magical figures throughout history for which no proof is available are properly categorized as myths. That goes for Zeus, Thor, Osiris, Baal, and the jewish-christian-muslim "gods."

Peace.

Answer 3

I would say so, but I am an atheist. I think religion was created before logical minds had started to discover the meaning of things scientiffically. The humans of earth needed something to guide them and provide them with an understanding of why things are.

Answer 4

like napoleon bonaparte said... about history though but i guess it can apply for religion too.... religion is just a fable which is agreed upon... something like that. the idea is that history and religion are just stories that everyone agrees happened at some point in time

Answer 5

Yes. Religions are beliefs that consist primarily of myths.

Answer 6

No, religions actually exist, unfortunately. Get used to them until people actually realize that they all believe in the same thing.

Answer 7

No religions are not a myth but what they teach is

Answer 8

yes thay are myths to control people

Answer 9

Dawkings sums it up:
"There is no reason for believing that any sort of gods exist, and quite
good reasons for believing that they do not exist and never have. It has
all been a gigantic waste of time and a waste of life. It would be a joke
of cosmic proportions if it weren't so tragic."
- Richard Dawkins

"Science shares with religion the claim that it answers deep questions about
origins, the nature of life, and the cosmos. But there the resemblance
ends. Scientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get results.
Myths and faiths are not and do not."
- Richard Dawkins, River out of Eden


"I am very hostile to religion because it is enormously dominant, especially
in American life. And I don't buy the argument that, well, it's harmless.
I think it is harmful, partly because I care passionately about what's
true."
- Richard Dawkins


"My last vestige of 'hands off religion' respect disappeared in the smoke
and choking dust of September 11th 2001, followed by the 'National Day of
Prayer,' when prelates and pastors did their tremulous Martin Luther King
impersonations and urged people of mutually incompatible faiths to hold
hands, united in homage to the very force that caused the problem in the
first place."
- Richard Dawkins, The Devil's Chaplain (2004)


"To an honest judge, the alleged convergence between religion and science is
a shallow, empty, hollow, spin-doctored sham."
- Richard Dawkins, ibid.


"We who are atheists are also a-fairyists, a-teapotists, and a-unicornists,
but we don't have to bother saying so."
- Richard Dawkins, Free Inquiry, Summer, 2002


"The alternative which I favor is to renounce all euphemisms and grasp the
nettle of the word atheism itself, precisely because it is a taboo word
carrying frissons of hysterical phobia. Critical mass may be harder to
achieve than with some non-confrontational euphemism, but if we did achieve
it with the dread word atheist, the political impact would be all the
greater."
- Richard Dawkins, ibid.


"I believe that an orderly universe, one indifferent to human
preoccupations, in which everything has an explanation even if we still have
a long way to go before we find it, is a more beautiful, more wonderful
place than a universe tricked out with capricious ad hoc magic."
- Richard Dawkins, Unweaving the Rainbow


"The universe that we observe has precisely the properties we should expect
if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but
pitiless indifference."
- Richard Dawkins, River out of Eden


"Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist."
- Richard Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker p. 6


"Another meme of the religious meme complex is called faith. It means blind
trust, in the absence of evidence, even in the teeth of evidence. The story
of Doubting Thomas is told, not so that we shall admire Thomas, but so that
we can admire the other apostles in comparison. Thomas demanded evidence.
Nothing is more lethal for certain kinds of meme than a tendency to look for
evidence. The other apostles, whose faith was so strong that they did not
need evidence, are held up to us as worthy of imitation. The meme for blind
faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of
discouraging rational inquiry."
- Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene


"[It] is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems
to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness."
- Richard Dawkins, ibid.


"You cannot be both sane and well educated and disbelieve in evolution. The
evidence is so strong that any sane, educated person has got to believe in
evolution."
- Richard Dawkins, in Lanny Swerdlow, "My Short Interview with Richard
Dawkins"


"Since all organisms inherit all their genes from their ancestors, rather
than from their ancestors' unsuccessful contemporaries, all organisms tend
to possess successful genes. They have what it takes to become ancestors -
and that means to survive and reproduce. This is why organisms tend to
inherit genes with a propensity to build a well-designed machine - a body
that actively works as if it is striving to become an ancestor. That is why
birds are so good at flying, fish so good at swimming, monkeys so good at
climbing, viruses so good at spreading. That is why we love life and love
sex and love children. It is because we all, without a single exception,
inherit all of our genes from an unbroken line of successful ancestors. The
world becomes full of organisms that have what it takes to become ancestors.
That, in a sentence, is Darwinism."
- Richard Dawkins, River out of Eden, page 2


"Natural selection is the blind watchmaker, blind because it does not see
ahead, does not plan consequences, has no purpose in view. Yet the living
results of natural selection overwhelmingly impress us with the appearance
of design as if by a master watchmaker, impress us with the illusion of
design and planning."
- Richard Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker


"The distribution of species on islands and continents throughout the world
is exactly what you'd expect if evolution was a fact. The distribution of
fossils in space and in time are exactly what you would expect if evolution
were a fact. There are millions of facts all pointing in the same direction
and no facts pointing in the wrong direction."
- Richard Dawkins


"In childhood our credulity serves us well. It helps us to pack, with
extraordinary rapidity, our skulls full of the wisdom of our parents and our
ancestors. But if we don't grow out of it in the fullness of time, our ...
nature makes us a sitting target for astrologers, mediums, gurus,
evangelists, and quacks. We need to replace the automatic credulity of
childhood with the constructive skepticism of adult science."
- Richard Dawkins


"Creationism: God's gift to the ignorant."
- Richard Dawkins


"I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not
understanding the world."
- Richard Dawkins


"Let's get up off our knees, stop cringing before bogeymen and virtual
fathers, face reality, and help science to do something constructive about
human suffering."
- Richard Dawkins

Answer 10

myth, some are, some are real

/its all real brother