Religion has been a big part of human lives since time
immemorial. Being raised in a religious family since childhood, I had also been
religious for a long part of my life, before I started thinking logically about
things. Let us try to look at the reasons as to why our species would be better
off without religion and religious institutions.
Promotes servility
and excessive obedience
All religions and religious institutions promote feelings of
servility and obedience to authority since the very childhood. It is also a way
of ensuring that people don’t challenge the beliefs later on and blindly follow
whatever is told to them. Excessive servility is bad for progress as it is a hindrance
to free thought and developing a questioning, rational mindset. And all scientific
progress, the basis of human development depends upon these qualities.
Biggest Cause of
Sexual Repression in Human Beings
All religions show sex in a bad light and portray it as
evil. This is very bad for our species. Science says that sexual repression is
very bad for our mental and physical development. And religion is the biggest
cause of sexual repression amongst humans. Many people are not able to live a
full and satisfied sexual life because of the stigma religion has attached with
sex. Time we get rid of this nonsense.
Religion is a big cause
of the plight of women globally
All religions talk about women as the inferior sex and
portray them as second class to men. This has encouraged oppressions,
injustices and crimes against women for centuries now, all across the world.
Women’s rights have not been as badly hurt by any other phenomenon as religion.
Many religions even treat women badly and approve violence as a means to
control and dominate them. Time that women recognise this fact!
Encourages stupidity
and delusional thinking
Many of the things religions preach on various issues are downright
stupid and insulting to human intelligence. The religious account of the creation
of life by most religions says that God created one of each species at the beginning
of time and left them to propagate on earth. The theory of evolution has proved
that life has gradually evolved on the planet from one species to another over the
course of nearly four billion years. Now, what would you believe?
The God Delusion
Religion tells us to pray and obey God, an all powerful
and all loving God who is omniscient and omnipresent. If that is the case, what
was that all loving God doing for the first 99,800 years of human existence of the
planet, when most of us used to die young of disease, hunger, poverty or natural
disasters. Our average life span was a mere 20 years around 1800, and
scientific and biological developments since then have ensured that the average
lifespan today is around 75 years. What was our sweet Lord doing for all this
time?
Also, if God is there, why is there so much of suffering on the
planet. Why millions and millions of people die every year due to natural
disasters like floods, earthquakes, etc? Why millions die every year of
disease, poverty and wars in the name of religion. Surely an all powerful being
could have stopped all this? Think over these questions. Clearly there is no
such being, and our destiny lies in our and our hands only.
Future Outlook
It would be safe to say that our future and present both would
be much better off without religion. Science and living in reality would be a
much better way to lead life, than living in a false belief of a fairy world somewhere
which can solve our problems and end our sufferings. The time is not far when there
would be no religion. The earth would be a much better place without it.
