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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HobNoblin · 36-40, M

It's probably more like an evolutionary adaptation to cope with knowledge of our mortality. That and it lends the ultimate moral authority. A lot of people can't tell right from wrong by observing simple consequences. They need a man up in the sky somewhere to tell them which way to go. The system works in some ways, it does provide moral guidance. That is until bombs start going off in the name of some god or other.