When we take decisions without knowing, ignorant decisions, we not only hurt ourselves, but those close to us. It’s simple statistics.

I wouldn’t betray a love of my family or friends by willingly endangering them for my religious believes. See, the love argument goes both ways. :P

Even if we accept that religion is not fundamentally based in “untrue”, it certainly glorifies the blind faith. At least the christianity does.

One of the verses that made me doubt the whole thing was john 20:29:

Then Jesus told him, “Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”

I’ve been listening to that verse sunday after sunday after sunday… and it felt more wrong every week.

common religious form is not specially intolerant

There are several aspects in which religion can harm the society.

The most pressing issue, currently, is that the moderate believers, who are in it mainly for the traditions and cultural identity tend to support the fundamentalists seeking power, because at the end of the day, they do believe in the same set of rules and laws. The moderates are just not making a big deal out of breaking them.

The other, rarely discussed topic, is the normalization of disinformation. Every new generation is being indoctrinated to believe fantastical statements, by the power of authority, yet when they grow up and replicate the behavior in form of alternative medicine, political propaganda, tendency to believe in fictitious conspiracies, we’re surprised. Because every religion shares the one fundamental property. It’s based on a believe in what is not true.

• edited because I went slightly offtopic at the end.

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