There's nothing wrong with religion itself, it's just that a lot of people who claim to be religious are just hypocrites who judge others for minor things while they don't even bother to try to follow God's commandments themselves and give religion a bad reputation.
Most religions (apart from cults) preach good things like the 10 commandments which are for the benefit of society and the 'golden rule' which states that you should treat others as you would like to be treated yourself. If everyone in the world followed those rules then the world would be a much better place. Unfortunately, a lot of people who claim to be religious choose to ignore these rules. Instead, they put all their effort into rituals such as going to church which means nothing if you don't understand your religion or make an effort to follow its commandments. They just go to church every Sunday and act like an arsehole the rest of the week. These people also happen to be the most outspoken and receive the most attention from the media because the media always focuses on negative things. Then atheists see these people and they get the wrong impression of religion when in fact a lot of atheists are good people and would benefit from it. A lot of these people are also very judgemental and love to criticise other people's actions and "morals" even though they do exactly the same things and worse in their personal lives. They love to criticise other people and things without knowing anything about them. For example, a bunch of Christian fundamentalists made a huge fuss when Iron Maiden’s the Number of the Beast came out. They started acting like a bunch of arseholes, claiming that Iron Maiden were Satanists and burning their records. If they had actually bothered to read the lyrics and find out the meaning of the song they would have found that it had nothing to do with worshipping Satan but was simply about a bad dream that their bassist had. But instead they chose to make assumptions based on the title of the album and cover art and came out looking like a bunch of ignorant arseholes and reinforcing the negative stereotypes of Christians. These people think they are doing God a favour when in reality they are just turning people away from Christianity with their hypocrisy. It’s people like this that drive people into listening to shitty bands like Deicide and claiming to be Satanists.
So in conclusion, religion is good but a lot of the people who claim to follow it are just arseholes and give it a bad reputation.
Panathinaikos5on January 21, 2006 Link
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