Your Religion
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While I got no problem with religious people, I think it is a misguided philosophy. Humans should have the humility to realize they are not the point of existence. Remember when the Church insisted the Earth was the center of the universe? Religions, the current ones anyway, are similarly myopic.
Yea God created man is his image, sent his son down to die for your sins, blabla etc etc. I call BS. We humans have only been here for 200k years out of 14 billion of the universe's existence. In fact Raptor Jesus is more plausible considering the dinosaurs' 160 million year track record.
Wake me up when there's a religion that doesn't describe man as the centerpoint of existence. Until then, I go with what I guess is called "secular humanism," because it puts faith in people, which allows for progress and new ideas, rather than some hypothetical god, whose views can easily be twisted by those in power.
"The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is required for their real happiness. To call on them to give up their illusions about their condition is to call on them to give up a condition that requires illusions."