Crank wrote:
A comment in the thread about flat earthers got me pondering religion and why I've never accepted an organized religion as my own. To me, they all suffer the same major, and fundamental flaw: They all rely on people who conveyed the alleged word of God to the masses. People are at best fallible and biased, and at worst they twist and pervert things to their own gain. The Hadith (an oral history that lead to the Koran, all sourced from the Angel Gabriel's whisperings to Muhammed in a cave somewhere), the Bible (Ten Commandments, burning bushes, a kid named Jesus), Judaism (Moses and Joshua) you name it. It's all got people's fingerprints all over it and therefore I simply can't bring myself to trust it.
Sure, some (most?) organized religions can prescribe a good, virtuous and charitable lifestyle, and that's great. But I can't for the life of me bring myself to believe what other people are telling me on their own faith. I don't and never will look down upon non-fundamentalist people of faith in any way, but I just can't join them.
What do you think?
Simple answer...they are all made up.
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