Atheists & Agnostics

I am talking all kinds of religion, not simply the Evangelical Christian model.

Humans had to find some way to make moral rules that allowed them to live together and not destroy one another.

IF you read the things Jesus said to the Pharisees (leaders of the Jewish faith at the time) you will find that HE was not a huge fan of the phony religious model either.

I look to the example of Christ and have not really been back to my Catholic roots since they told me I had to hate people in God's name or my Methodist roots after they put a former Baptist preacher in place of a really great Methodist minister I had a lot of respect for.

BUT I don't blame God for humans using religion to control the masses.

Christian faith is SUPPOSED to be about having a PERSONAL relationship with God and accepting forgiveness when we mess up and trying to do good in the world.

All the control and such is a hold over from when people were barely aware and living in constant fear. There are still things to fear, but we have been able to grow and change so we have more tools than religion to get the masses from point A to B.