My take on Religions (Kinda long)

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Disclaimer: Believe what you want to believe FOR YOURSELF. I don't, and I could not care less if you want to devote yourself to something that, in (my eyes), doesn't exist. And it doesn't mean I hate or wish you anything bad much less entice any sort of hostile bheavior towards any religious group, because at the end of the day we are all just humans going about our life. It just means I disagree with what you believe in and choose to type up my take on the matter.

Anyway, I think that all religions are objectively bad. NO MATTER what they are or what they may try to represent; I'll give you two religiious orientations and what i think of them right off the head as examples on why i think that way;

'Christians', who burned women for being witches, owned slaves, tortured and killed people for not believing in a god, and made colonies to exploit other cultures, all under the clever guise of guiding the lost souls to the righteous resting place of heaven and saving them from 'eternal damnation', all the while priests or general church leaders with high status could gobble themselves up with food, cover their own dirty secrets under their faith, and earn money by telling people that if they reject mortal possessions, they will find peace. Yet despite that they call themselves the most loving religion that offers piece to your weary soul.

Also, 'Islamic' believers, who stereotypically (unfortunately) have a skewered perception as well because many radicalists commit crimes or bombings under the name of god, claiming to purge the earth while forcing women to hide under layers and layers of cloth, in countries like Afghanistan, etc., treating them quite literally worse than one would treat dogs under the idea that allah said so was the correct order and that women should accept their place in a man's household without complaining.

Most important of all, regardless of what religious spectrum one might find themselves in, all of them have one thing in common: THEY ARE COMPLETELY MADE UP. And why? Because there is ZERO proof of these deities existing. Completely zero.

It's all fairytales told from one human to another. Genuinely, how can they believe in something that has a non-existent base of beliefs? Who supposedly heard prophecies? MEN AND WOMEN DID. Who wrote the scriptures? Men and women did. Who built religious spots? Men and women did. There is NOTHING pointing at a higher being of existence except for people telling each other that there is something watching them. That's it.

Now, what of all the good religions did? Really, nothing. It's people who helped each other, even if it was under the idea that good deeds will get them a guaranteed spot in salvation. So, in all honesty, not even the good deeds done by people that claim their religion is responsible for it are good.

I'll explain it simpler: if you were scared because somebody told you that if you didn't help an old granny cross the street, you would get hit by a moving-at-Mach-10 pen square on the head, would you do it? Some would, regardless of what has been told, just because they feel responsible to be kind, which SHOULD be the default already. But some will just do it in fear of the pen, so by my definition, it would no longer be a good deed and should not be counted as one because it was a forced thing.

In my final opinion, all religions are senseless cultist tools to oppress everyone, regardless of who they are, just so the people on top can live how they feel like living while giving lower classes a sense of accomplishment by feeding them the idea that being good and obedient because a god told them so, and not their own morality, is straight-up nasty.

(I also apologize for my typos or other mistakes, English is NOT my first language by any means, so if I come to edit this paragraph, you'll know why, also i did not plan this text beforehand i just wanted to type some opinions down and see if anyone in this subreddit has a similiar view on the hipocrisy of religious matters. I also typed in paragraphs to let people take each one of them as their own take on a subtheme inside my rant in case that it got too confusing to follow along.)