The Consequences of Religion

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Have you ever conjectured why do people accept religions? Religion does three things quite effectively: Divides people, Controls people, and Deludes people, (Carlespie Mary Alice McKinney). Religion is a quiet wide-discussed subject. Whether it’s right or wrong, whether it’s true or not; people are always arguing about it and through-out history made it the center of their lives. It has divided people; it has ruined lives, rather than making them better. It takes full control of faith-fanatic’s lives, they have no will of choosing, God is always there watching and judging and creating a condemnation upon our lives. And it totally deceives people’s wits, they can’t select for themselves, they have to “appeal” god if it’s good or bad.

Another problem with it is that religion is used depending on how well-situated it is to you. “Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful”, (Seneca the Younger 4). For me, this excerpt totally describes religions as a hoax. Why is religion true to common people? Easy. Widespread people have to get sensitively implicated to something. They need a support to over go their days in this spiteful humankind. Most faith-fanatics are common people; people obsessed with an enhanced prospect under their god’s commandments and requirements; that there is something dominant that already wrote their fate. And the reason religion is spread worldwide, not regarding which religion, is because ordinary people are profuse in the world. And for shrewd people, religion doesn’t exist. It’s just another way of manslaughter everyone’s time. For clever people it’s totally absurd that an all-powerful and an all-knowing god exist. In a God that politicians use to con...

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...ame that people suffer that much psychologically for something that doesn’t even exist. But at the end, people believe in religions because it is what they learn at home. And it is what sociology accepts as correct. So it’s a sociological issue rather than psychological, or it could be both. So why bother trying to change people’s point of scrutiny. All I pose is for a dash of logic when you opt your way of existing. Not just go for what all and sundry is into. Be the intelligent minority and don’t preach the majority’s authority. Majority-emerging authority at the end fails.

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