The problem with religion

I understand the concept of faith and the concept of God. That is fine by me and faith is as important as love or fear.

But you cannot tell me to read books written by men who think they had visions from God. The biggest analogy is modern day cult leaders.

Most of the holy books have different interpretations which change with time. Why so? Are the books too complex or are they changing interpretations as the world evolves? The answer is latter.

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Human1000 · M

I personally don’t have a problem with religion because I’m an atheist. Religion to me is like watching a documentary about another species.

Doometernal · 26-30, M

@Human1000 makes sense. Not an atheist but I have questions that don't make logical sense.

If God does exist, then why do you need to pray constantly for example? And why does God punish "sinners"? Why can't he create all good people?

That brings up to the question of free will. If our lives are predetermined then did we really sin? And if free will doesn't exist then you should hate God for creating you instead of praying.

Either we have free will and what we do cannot be considered as sin or we don't have free will and it doesn't make sense to pray to God .

Human1000 · M

@Doometernal Exactly! The problem of evil. God would need to be either evil or not omnipotent to allow evil. In either case why worship such a being? And even if this problem could be solved, why worship at all? Why would such a being even demand to be worshipped? And out of fear? Is that love or a threat?

Makes no sense at all…free will creates the whole host of issue you describe.

In the end we’re just smarter chimps…no logic to any of it.