Bullshizzzz

Great for some people, fine for others and not a good fit for everyone. It's an individual choice and that choice shouldn't be disrespected, simply because one person chooses differently than another.

Agreed. It depends on the religion and the individual. There is too much variety in both to make sweeping statements. All religion isn't like Mormonism and all people are not like the Religion bashers.

+100

Yet another person wanting it both ways stuffing the ballot box.

Reminded me of this little quote:

We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. - H. L. Mencken

To him, they are. And that's all that matters.

But I don't think you necessarily have to respect someone's religion as someone's RIGHT to believe in what they want.

It's fine for the gullible, bad for everyone else. People shouldn't expect to be respected for choosing to be credulous, uninformed, fools.

mostly obsolete. Mostly.

Unnecessary

What is: the opium of the masses?

Also: a way to control the masses with promises you never have to keep.

Supposed to be comforting.

Man-made control mechanism, period!

DEAD

Just this thing you know?

an effective way to move money from a large group of people, to a selectively smaller one.

Mostly the institutionalized form of someone's spiritual epiphanies (their direct experience of another mode of being), maintained largely by people with no direct personal experience of this themselves. Hence outer forms substitute for direct knowing and people become rigid defenders of their particular outer forms (which assume the status of "idols"--ironic, isn't it?)

Desperately in need of a software update

...an insult to humanity and the human intellect.

...an impediment to moral progress of any kind.

...for suckers.

...the best way to make money (this one is from L. Ron Hubbard).

...an enemy to reason.

...a scourge.

...a delusion.

...divisive and clannish and as a result, often murderous and genocidal.

BTW, I'm not a fan...

Primitive

-- feel-good nonsense that wastes the only life a human has.

Convenient, if you're running a class-based society of under-educated consumers and don't want them thinking too hard about... well, anything at all :)

. . . a fairy tale told to make people happy.

Sorta like the tale of "Mouseville" on The Green Mile.

...or Sugarcandy Mountain in Animal Farm

a failed science.

To paraphrase the Dali Lama, Religion is not necessary to live but WE CANNOT SURVIVE without human affection.

This has been an interesting exercise...thanks to all those that have contributed.

From where I'm at in my life . . . "mythology."

Irrelevant...

Ron Burr

Wish I had thought of that. Or learned it in my teens.

Religion is making your wishes into beliefs.

OK as long as you don't try to beat someone else over the head with it.

Not the gospel.

Gore - spell, right?

As in to be gored by a bull, and the spell of a witch.

A Bozo no no

John Lennon had it right.