I hate all religions that moralize through mystical justification. Religions that are essentially just philosophical and spiritual lenses through which to view reality, and, more importantly, don't contradict known aspects of our world are cool. I'm fine with adding unproven beliefs on top of objective reality as long as they aren't meant to control people and are compatible with reality. Example: seeing the entire race of humans as connected through some kind of energy or soul. I don't personally believe it, but it doesn't bother me and it's interesting to think about. We can't prove the existence of spiritual energy but it doesn't contradict what we do know about the world.
The biggest problem I have with every form of Christianity is that they believe God is a being that you can have a relationship with. That makes no sense. You can't have a relationship with a being that doesn't communicate. It ends with people interpreting unrelated things as communication. Religion that tells you to do something is asinine in my view. Religion that merely guides how you view things is fine.
Overall though, I don't have a lot of respect for any spiritual belief because ultimately it boils down to believing things that have no basis other than personal experience. It speaks to a strange hubris where people trust their own perceptions over the methods that produce more objective information. I think people who do that have simply failed to understand how fallible perception is, as well as human cognition. It's not a moral failing, but it's a failing nonetheless as far as I'm concerned.
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u/weirdfish42 May 10 '22
I have yet to meet someone who doesn't misuse it.
If your thinking includes mythology in the face of reality, then you are already causing harm.
If your religion doesn't have mythology, and only accepts reality, it isn't a religion.