Do you think religion is a plague?

I think people take things to extremes. Religion or anything else.

Religions aren't plagues. The human race is.

I think a lot of people have a problem with reliigion, but I don't think it's going deep enough to solve the root to call it a plague. Most popular religious texts stripped down are just common sense stuff like, "Hey, murdering people? Maybe don't do that." So if people want to dig deep and stop the problem, they need to identify the roots. It's like humanity is obsessed with being in clubs, then decides the club sucks and they're going to start their own club with black jack and other things. I think the problem isn't religion, I think it's a flaw with people that needs a better solution.

As long as someone isnt forcing their religion onto me, I see no problem.

Problem with that is while my neighbor may not be ramming the good book down my throat, we (USA) have systematically deemed ourself as a christian nation. MOST people get the major christian holidays off. But Judaism or Islam or any other religion, pfff forget that. We don't want to honor YOUR religion.

It's combination of religion and political power that is lethal.

If it's a personal and private belief then fuck it. It's not necessarily correct or truthful but it's not really hurting anyone.

I am an athiest and its funny and sad at the same time when people say you need religion to be moral like what the fuck!?!?
So according to that if a religious person does not follow religion they would just be a monster or a person without moral? thats fucked up!!
They NEED a book to tell them that they need to be moral?? They cant live on their on. Religions in true sense is a plague, hampers everything and most importantly common sense.

People choose to believe in stupid ass facts and not science and common sense

Religion plus sociopaths/narcissists equals evil and a shitty world. Abolish religion and eliminate the evil crazies:)

Religions are a form of social organization, and they do not ALWAYS neccessarily contribute to aggravating social problems. Some religious communities even struggle to address such problems, and there is a lot of variation between them. While conservative images of religion are more familiar, there are also thousands of liberal communities and believers around the world. It's not that easy to summarize all of religion with a simple negative judgment.

"Faith and reason are like the shoes on you feet: It's much better to have both than just one."

Selfishness and pride are "a plague".

I don't think religion itself is a plague, just the people who are in it. It's like fandoms (any group really even countries). Like for example, Undertale is a good game. Some of the fans who took interest in it created an Undertale following i.e. A fandom. If you've ever heard anything from Undertale it was probably that the fans suck, they're annoying, they push their beliefs onto you, or hates anyone not in there group.

Sound semi-familiar?
Most would say biggest religion offenders are Christians.
But that's dependent on your opinions.

People can and do bad things with or without having religion.

to say all religion is or isn't negative is to make a huge generalization. most western christianity is harmless, for example. I don't consider nice old ladies who bring lemon bars to their weekly bible study to be a "plague," and if you do, your viewpoint is the malignant one. however, there are other types of religious people that are purely toxic, such as the westboro baptists and radical islam. all in all, religious folks are just people: some wouldn't hurt a fly, others we could do without.

What do you define as splitting the world apart? And why is it bad?

I would compare this to gun issues. A gun can be used for good, or to protect yourself. But there will always be people who take it too far, or people who cannot handle it. The gun isn't to blame. The person is.

No, it's not a plague. Plagues spread from host to host, without consent from the host. Religion is the mind of the host forcing itself willingly onto unwilling other types of religious and non-religious minds. The mechanics are different. While bacteria or viruses infect a human, religion is one with the human.

Yet another 'is religion bad' post?? What is this, Reddit? Simple: if you're an atheist, agnostic or 'spiritual but not religious', you probably don't think religion is great. Most people on here are fall into one of the above categories. Voilà. There's your vote outcome.

Get rid of the desert cults.. Judaism Christianity and Islam, and the rest of the world's religions can get along happily with each other.

in a memologic sense, yes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE3j_RHkqJc

I religions is fundamentally a way of improving the man at it's best.
Different religions have different opinions on what this "Best" is, and how to get there, though.
Religion is never a plague, but it can act like a plague if it teaches about hate and agression towards people not from this religion (much like islamism, for example)
Truly passific religions can live together in peace (like buddism and hinduism)

But multiculturalism is NEVER a good thing. All great empires of old fell because of that (Rome, Alexander, Khaan, Otoman...)
At the end, interaction between, not only religions, but the culture itself, will always cause problems

Religion, god/gods, were all created by people, and are nothing more than make believe. Now we're seeing islam on the rise in free western nations, not good.

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All these comments are very helpful. I'm the original poster btw.

i think atheist really hate god and worship lucifer . they start wars for the bankers. Hitler was working for them so was roosevelt