Well, as was shown in the past, this issue is really two parts.
1) Belief in God
2) Worship of God.
To believe in God is one thing, and not necessarily a bad thing. Does give convienent explination for all those unanswered/unanswerable questions out there. And it does provide comfort when we eventually become bug food. And I have no beef with any of that, as long as those are just notions and ideas that make sense to a person.
The problem is when things become a "belief". Beliefs are almost impossible to change, and people have killed and died for beliefs, whether they were rooted in a specific belief of God or not. This is where worship and religion fits in and where things go downhill fast. By worshipping something you're in fact stating that what you worship is right without question. And ppl can't stand having what they know is right without question questioned. Thus you have wars, death, hate, etc.
So really, belief in God seems to be a rather understandable reaction and on the whole harmless in itself -- as was already stated. Religion, though, is a pain in the ass and a primary method for inflcting one person's view on another (usually many others). And that just sucks all around!
Cliffnotes:
-- Belief in God good. Is harmless.
-- Religion bad. Leads to oppression of those who don't believe as they do.
-- Jack
Man is a Religious Animal. Man is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion -- several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight. He has made a graveyard of the globe in trying his honest best to smooth his brother's path to happiness and heaven.... The higher animals have no religion. And we are told that they are going to be left out in the Hereafter. I wonder why? It seems questionable taste.
-- Mark Twain
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