EgonSpengler
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I think religion is autocratic and oppressive by nature. It uses mythology and the supernatural, things we cannot examine empirically or rationally for ourselves, as tools for control and power. Religions try to impose order and rules by asserting things that are intangible, if not outright imaginary, and then asking us to just trust them on it. Then they violate our trust and tell us that while people are fallible the Imaginary Being in the Sky (or His/Her/Its son, messenger, or pizza delivery person) is Divine, so we should continue to trust in Him/Her/It, and we'll be rewarded after we die (which we should be eager to do, for the sake of the religion). Religions shouldn't even get tax exemptions.