Is religion a tool to control people???

Surely there is one god but why do we have to belong to a certain religion? Just be a good person don't burden yourself with belonging to a certain club because that's what religion is
Have faith , have hope respect yourself and others and that's it

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SomeMichGuy · M

Religions have been used fot that (controlling people), but your attempt to bring the "can't we all just get along?", 30,000-ft view as the "solution" ignores the fact that different religions make different claims about the fundamental nature of things, and even the nature of what else might be.

They have similarities in morals--and it was developmental biologists & sociologists who pointed out that much of this could be explained by asking what sorts of values would form a stable society--but they are not "therefore" all the same or even equivalent.