WIN!

"A Muslim walks into a bar.....", Christans laugh. "God said to Jesus-" Christans cut you off right there, tell you you're going to hell for 1 tiny joke, and you should let a book dictate your life.

In theory, religion was created to better understand our universe from our limited perspective. But it also had byproduct in which monarchs took full advantage of: It made people work harder, and abide by laws in fear of not going to Heaven. They enforced religion as a means of spreading their control and population (some religions require a certain number of children.) Though religion gives people a sense of cosmic purpose and the commandments give them reasonable rules to govern themselves, it has also done just as much harm. People used to use religion to justify for slavery, control, and (though not in all cases) money.
Religion-or some prominent being-has never proven existence beyond the understanding of Science.

I seriously don't get it. People fight over religion all the time, and for what? To simply say that you fought over an opinion and accomplished literally nothing except violating the American constitutional amendment, "Freedom of Speech."
The main fact that we are allowed to have our own opinions comes with the responsibility to respect the opinions that others have. Everyone who tries to tell somone who is christian that their stupid is an idiot, they are lucky themselves that they have the right to NOT believe in God.
Plus, with the right to have our own opinions, clearly not everyone is going to have the same one. So why fight? It's senseless.

why take it off?
can't some people handle the truth?

if that makes some people uncomfortable, try being an athiest (like myself) and
having to listen to people feel sorry for you about not "finding god".

Dude, I'm an atheist and all but we don't have to make fun of people who believe in something bigger than ourselves. It gives hope to them, to believe that this isn't it, that we will keep living after death. I, for one think nothing of it and choose to avoid topics of religion. Whatever they believe is their choice, don't make fun of them because of what they believe.

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The beginning as religion states started approximately 5000-10,000 years ago. So, then what of the countless archeological discoveries dating past then? Did some prominent being just put fossils of dinosaurs in the ground for man's pleasure of digging them up? With time paradox here on Earth (in this case, viewing the past by watching distant stars, since light takes time to get to Earth, depending on how many light years away, we can see that far into the past. Example: Sirius which is a little over 8 light years away, we are seeing it as it was slightly over 8 years ago as it takes that long for light to get to Earth.) By doing this we can see millions if not billions o years into the past, before the "creation of Ea

lol so true

religion has killed more people than like anything else. for thousonds of years people have been slaughterd beacsue of religion. if it so good why does it kill millions of people

alot of the time poeple reading the bible think all the things in it are literal....

many devout people spend all that time and money for "god" which no one can prove it exists, with that time and money religious people spend, it could be used for improving medicine and science which has helped man-kind in so many ways, and it pisses me off whenever people come to my door asking me to convert to Christianity or some other religion

The right side seems easier. I think i'll go with that.