Religion is the devil's work

[tolu619]

VGPolyglot said:
My biggest problem is that people believe in things without proof. When I question people why they believe in God or their religion based on their faith alone and without any proof, their reaction is generally "prove that he doesn't exist/that it's not true." That's not how it works: are supposed to believe in Santa Claus, Leprechauns and the Lochness Monster exist until it's proven that they don't?

 

At OP: God hates religion. I haven't read the replies past the first page of the thread, so I don't know if anyone has already explained this. And I didn't read your OP in it's entirety, but from what I saw, most of what you said about religion is true anyway. And the Bible speaks against it in many places. It's the counterfiet system designed to draw people's gaze away from a true relationship with God.

Here's an analogy: imagine if a parent-child relationship was institutionalized and structured to the point where it becomes a list of dos and donts, instead of a relationship between people. Then imagine if there were so many variations of these laws, that people can't tell which is the right one, and then some people stop believing in parent-child relationships alltogether.

Personally, it hurts me when I see people claim to be Christians and I realize that they have no relationship with their Father God, and don't even know that they're supposed to have a relationship. At VGPolygot, people like me don't "believe in without proof". We have actual relationships with God, and the proof of the pudding is in the eating. No matter how vividly I describe the taste to you, it won't change a thing if you don't taste it yourself. From experience, I've learnt that citing personal examples from my own life, especially over the internet to someone who hasn't even met me in person, leads to people finding ways to explain away what they can, while concluding that I made up the parts that they can't explain away.