I am very much against religion.
It serves zero purpose except to instill a rigid indoctrinated and hateful viewpoint that is adverse to change.
Islam, Judaism and Christianity are all cut from the same middle-eastern, abrahamic cloth, they all share the same fictitious, unproven, misogynistic, homophobic, mass murdering God.
We have Christian terrorists in Africa, we have Islamic Terrorists in the Middle East... And we only need to look at the drama surrounding Gaza to see the issue with Judaism... But I would also argue these "conflicts" would continue to exist with or without religion, religion is just simply used as the crutch/excuse to instill such horrors on other people, the fundamental issues run far deeper.
Historically they have murdered homosexuals, abused and tried to "convert" lesbians, recruited children as soldiers, leveraged slavery, restricted womens rights and more.
It's only in modern societies where progressives pushed for change (I.E. Same Sex marriage and womens rights) that religion has started to become more moderate in those nations... But that isn't applicable everywhere.
Consequently whilst Christianity as a "whole" is more moderate in modern society, there -ARE- denominations which are more rigid with literal interpretations of the Bible right down to banning the consumption of Pork.
Religion also attacks and holds back science and education, such as evolution as it comes into conflict with their creation hypothesis.
I firmly believe the world would be a far better place if Religion simply didn't exist... And whilst people of faith can do good, they can do almost as much bad.
Atheism is the default position and the position I take, everyone is born Atheist, it's only later in life that they are converted and indoctrinated into a religion.
In saying that... I stand by and defend peoples fundamental rights to believe and follow whatever God/Religion they desire, it's called "Freedom of Religion" which also comes with the corresponding right of "Freedom FROM Religion" which I wish religious folk would also show the same respect.
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