What's the point in still having religions?
We all know that Christianity was "founded" roughly 2000 years ago. Islam followed ~700 years after that, Judaism is a few thousand years older. (I'll focus on these 3 for now, feel free to add other religions).
All of these religions were founded in a time when people could barely explain anything, when the majority of ordinary people still thought the earth to be flat, when people thought there were demons and when they had very limited knowledge (read: none) of where we came from.
I can understand the purpose of these religions at that time - they helped people fight their fear of death. Back then, many people became only 20-30 years old so death was always present. Children who died before the age of 15 were very common, often only 30-50% of all children you had ever became adults. On top of that, people couldn't explain so many things. Who were we humans? Where did we come from? What is our purpose in life? What will happen to us after death?
Back then life was rather brutal as well, amongst mid-eastern people back then vendetta was very common, resulting in neverending bloodshed. While weapons werent as advanced as nowadays, people were often more ruthless and stuff such as charity etc wasnt as big as it is nowadays.
However, things have changed. Back then, proving if there was a god in heaven above earth somewhere couldnt be proven wrong. Back then we had no real idea how earth was created. But things have changed.
We now know about the evolution of races, we have started figuring out the DNA codes, we have found out about atoms, quarks etc. We know how and when the earth was created. We have way improved medicine, some people becoming 120 years and older.
We can now explain so much, our knowledge is incredible. We now know that the earth isnt flat, and more importantly almost everyone knows that now, even a poor peasant somewhere in the desert. We humans are mightier than ever, we can travel to the moon, we can fly around the earth in a matter of a few hours.
So the question is: what is still the point of religion? I mean seriously, a book about the magical doings of a carpenter in the first century? lol? A book with an immense amount of contradictions, full of inaccuracies and weird claims. Or should we read the Koran, apparently god dictated mohammed that book word for word, haha. How can modern people seriously believe such stuff? And we really want to believe in a god who is jealous, who tells us to slaughter other people (old testament), who kills whole cities because he thinks they are "sinners"? What?
Arent we modern and enlightened people? Really... some people should get over their (subconscious) fear of death. Believing in (a) god(s) is a pathetic way of escaping your dull and boring way, looking for a way to explain things which differs from being descendant of monkeys. Sad.
If there was any proof, if there was any evidence that anything regarding Islam, Judaism or Christianity was true. If anything showed us that there was a "divine being", that Jesus revived from the dead. If God somehow appeared, if he did wonders, if he acted. If he did anything. But no.
Christians believe in god because some ordinary people around 100 AD and later wrote some mystical stories about jesus which were eventually combined with a lot of stories from judaism (old testament). I mean seriously, you believe in that because of some ancient myths, because some people wrote about a guy who claimed to be "son of god"???!! Some guy in the first century claimed to be the son of god, he claimed to have revived and to have cured many very sick people. We rly believe in that? So next thing is that we go around the streets, look for random sects and believe that their leader is our new messiah? How poor is that?
Mohammed is just as sad, you seriously believe "god came and told him all that koran stuff" (through an angel or whatever)
Riiiiight. It doesnt want to get into my head how you can be so pathetic as to believe that.
And hahaha, all of these stories in the bible or koran, nowhere do they get backed up! No proof supports them! They talk about god, saying there is a god who is omniscient and omnipotent. But haha! He NEVER DOES ANYTHING, NEVER EVER! There is exactly no evidence that something like that exists! Only our poor and warped minds have made him up in order to compensate our fears.
Isnt it funny how most big religions always say that everything is after death? That god will only be there and that he, for some reason, doesnt want to do anything in our world here? Isnt it a biiiit coincidental that nobody has ever come back from the dead?
I mean that's kind of easy, "there is a god who rules everything, you must obey him, you must be a good person! But! he will only appear after your death, then he will punish you or be nice to you"
Funny how that cannot bew proven. Nobody has ever come back to tell. We live here, believing in that myth just because some ordinary people 2000 and more years ago claimed a god to exist. Just because of that. Isnt that sad? We believe in someone for who there is exactly no logical evidence, let alone any proof.
What is the point, I mean seriously?
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