Holy Crap! part deux

So it's been a while since I posted anything about religion. As it happens, something I read today sparked my interest in debunking religion again.

I've heard theists argue that because science can't explain the origin of everything then there must be a designer/creator. While many atheists would easily dismiss that as the root of what science is and that just because science doesn't have the all the answers doesn't mean there is a creator, I've never heard the opposite argument. The fact that religion does have all the answers should make it suspect. Any rational person that is presented with the answers to all life's questions should be wary. Any book that gives you all you need and condemns free thinking is dangerous. The saying "if it sounds too good to be true then it probably is" comes to mind.

During what I consider the "age of religion", think way way back to ancient egypt, there was certainly a lack of organized learning. Only the rich and powerful were educated and even then the quality of the education was limited to what they knew at the time. Religion was a perfect fit AND it was for everyone. This, in fact, was where things naturally took a turn for the worse. It is without question that those in power, be it moderate or extreme, want to stay in power. Those that have wealth wish to keep it. This has been and will always be the way it is, good or bad. Survival of the fittest can be applied here, it's just nature. Religion was the means to stay in power, to terrify the masses (uneducated, mind you) and collect money in the name of a creator/deity. It hasn't always been the God we think of today, there were many deities that came before the Christian God. All of them with similar traits, similar tasks, and similar rules. The obviousness of the truth is overwhelming...religion is a means to control and make money from the uneducated or easily persuaded through fear and retribution.

The study of theology, as it stands in Christian churches, is the study of nothing; it is founded on nothing; it rests on nothing; it proceeds by no authorities; it has no data; it can demonstrate nothing and admits of no conclusion. - Thomas Paine