j0ekerr: Religions are all a pile of crock. Understood as philosophical treatises, they're harmless (if poorly thought out). Their main problem is that by their very nature they're
dogmatic, which more or less means, Leave your brain here you won't need it anymore.
And if you think about it, there's a lot of people who are just queuing up to take out all that excess weight in their heads.
Any religion based on superiority, any religion that wants to tell you how to live your life, and what a piece of shit you are if you don't follow every rule to the letter, any religion that tries the invisible person carrot/stick routine of eternal bliss for blind devotion and eternal damnation for independent thought?
Total garbage, a multi-headed hydra virus for the mind, ground in over thousands of years by the power-maddened, the obscenely full of shit, and the pathetically, psychotically zealous.
Of course there are. Everything from rape, to mass murder, to torture, to slavery, it's all acceptable once you take your mind out of the picture and just follow.