Religion is the pinnacle of human-ish Stupidity. Before you go off on a tirade because you probably thought i just said religion is stupid, first you must understand i am not saying religion is stupid. I am saying humans are stupid and created religion to compensate for what they cannot explain.

Religion in it’s truest form is a community of morally driven humans. It has nothing to do with wood and stone (churches). These started off as a safe haven to gather to share one’s beliefs. Churches could have been a fire, a bolder, mud hut, whatever. Then as trade was introduced to human culture and money and materials began to drive humanity, religion became costly. Wood and stones needed to be traded, stone workers and slaves had to be bought, religion now needed to make money. [link to elaborated article here]

Religion is also open to interpretation and this interpretation caused conflicts. No Human is the same or thinks exactly the same. Where one human sees good another may see bad and this is what caused the different religions to evolve (in a nutshell). Like Jehovah Witnesses and Catholics. Jehovahs think drinking wine is sin because it intoxicates the sacred body. Catholics drink it up like no others and are at no risk of sin (it may be hell the next morning though!). [Read more]

As time progresses, we have many tribes, societies, countries and humans making religions that conform to their societies and understandings. As the world’s human population grows and tribes, societies and countries bump into each other, their beliefs are shared. Some are accepted and others are insulting, neither believe there ideas are wrong, some may adapt others’ beliefs to their own, but none will change or conform their Religion. If you don’t believe in my God(s) you are a heathen, infantile, sinner, outcast and don’t deserve to be part of our society. See where this is going?

Life is simple and our brains made it complicated. These complications needed explanations, there has to be an answer for everything. The only way to control the human brain was to develop a couping mechanism for the unexplainable. Without this ability to coup we would go insane. Humans created a “Higher Power”, something that knew more then them and put their faith in that to solve the unexplainable. We gave it a name, a word, and this is where it all started to go downhill.

Religion is a free psychologists at best. A way to explain and work through the hurdles of life. It comforts us, it allows us to talk to ourselves without being deemed insane, it allows us the one uniquely human trait… to kill for beliefs and not just for food, territory or survival. We are insane, all of us.