From what I understand, superstition were made to fill the gaps. And superstition were turned into religion by men who wanted power. They use religion to control other people through fear. And religion works best against the weak-minded who don't have the guts to accept reality for what it is. Religious leaders all the way from the past took advantage of this and used religion to control them. That is why you see so many different religions all over the world. Each culture has its own made up religion. It's so obvious. It has continued until today and the weak-minded are still being exploited.

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Religion was invented inorder to instill moral values to the general population. It is not that only the weak minded are religious. Religion plays an important role in preventing evils like abortion and poverty.

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Religion is left over from primitive man. That is my belief. Just imagine for centuries how agnostics/atheists were scared to speak up. They had to sit by and watched whole societies based on this closed minded rubbish. They had to watch numerous man hours and resources wasted on non-sense rituals.

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Hmmm... I find it interesting that the most well known mass murderers of 20th century were atheists. Josef Stalin massacred 60 million in USSR. Similarly Mao and his fellow atheists massacred tens of millions in China.

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Sociopaths can be believers or non believers. Their crimes shouldn't reflect on a whole group any more than the genocide against American natives should reflect on all Christians.

Religion is primitive. The need for a god to explain the unknown is primitive. Time and time again religion has had to evolve to keep up with science.

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If religion is primitive, then 90% of the world's population which believes in religion will be too primitive for you. It has been proven again and again that religious people are having stronger moral values compared to non religious ones.

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Religion doesn't evolve anymore. Why do you think it evolves? I think after Islam, there's no other big religion coming up. In 20th and 21st century, it's very hard for new religion to affect people.

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There are many, many non believers out there. I still say religion is primitive. Does that make the person primitive, of course not. It means when they practice their religious rituals they are engaging in primitive behavior in my opinion. I see no difference between the christian and the person in the forest worshiping the stars.

Non believers are growing. All one needs to do is study man kind and our history and you will stop with the religion. The oldest known religion was one found in Africa where they worshiped the python some 50,000 years ago. Religion has obviously evolved along with man since then.

Josh, when I say religion is evolving, I mean they straighten up their BS stories. Religious people will say of course they don't believe that Eve was made from Adams rib. They will say of course they don't believe in a global flood. They now have learned to pick and choose their battles. It is like the religious folks that are against gays or abortion cause that is what the bible tells them but they wont stone their daughter for losing her virginity before marriage.

It is always said to religious people, the same reason you don't believe in the other thousands of myths is the same reason I don't believe in yours. People want to think they will live forever. People cannot handle death. I saw where a gorilla actually carried around her dead child for days. Man has just come up with religion to help cope with death and the unknown.

People are indoctrinated into their regional faith and most don't read enough or have an open enough mind to escape it.

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Religion has appeared as a way to unite people but it has evolved in a way to manipulate people and to brainwash them.

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yes religious people are having strong moral values. n living without values is just living like an animal. values helps u alot to making decision fast.
n its also true that who is leader in that, will lead u but its not bad to b a follower, because when u don't have power to lead ,better is to b follower. n the acceptance of religion is only then when some group of people agree on the same concept. so whatever the religion , its sure that there is something great idea or theory behind it. thatswhy a huge number of people accept it n still people r following it.

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@garima: problem is, there are huge gaps among different religions. Islam, for instance, believe Jesus is just a prophet. While Christians believe Jesus is also God.

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People follow it cause it is passed down and kids have no choice. The population of people smart enough to be critical thinkers is not that high. Out of that population there will still be believers due to human tendency to try to fit reality to ones beliefs. There will also be what seem to be believers because they keep their atheism to themselves not wanting to be outcasts.

Being a non believer is one of the hardest things to be. Throughout human history where ever the culture was, non believers were not tolerated.

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people have different religion. because they develop in different countries n it evolved in very early stages, n that time the communication problem was great.so there is great difference in religion thoughts. n still u can find that all the religion has some same concept.

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but i think scenario is changing. the ancestors are not passing the culture to next generation it at all. there is MTV n V channel is culture in young generation. they don't not know exactly their religion n what the values are mention in that. for them the religion is just to celebrate some festival, they don't know any theory behind it. n even i don't know much.
as the globalization is there, cross cultural people work together n they accept whatever changes they find good for them. so its not exactly we are following what our ancestors passed us. its changes as the time passes.

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