Religion is a bad thing

You're welcome, Con. 1. Whilst I agree with some of what you are saying, I do not agree with it all. I can use a different example if you would like? How can any parents in this world be able to believe it is okay too stop their sick children from getting the help or medicine they need because they believe it is not God's way. There was a story about this in the news not too long ago... and the Judge ruled that the child needs the medicine and treatment and WILL have it regardless of what his parents believe. So yes, i stick with what I say, "religion clouds our judgement" because it does. How can people in this day and age, after seeing the advances in medicines and procedures by our wonderful scientists, doctors & nurses, decline any type of treatment for their very ill child in the hope that "God will fix it". This is what i conceive as clouded judgement. 2. I don't disapprove that religion encourages morality and makes people happy. But, we are not talking about the whole world as a population, we are talking about small minority of people who can stay morale and happy, thoroughly because of religion. 3. "God created the universe with its laws of nature." This is your opinion, this is not a fact. My opinion being, God did not create the world, or the humans or animals that live in it. I'm pretty sure one of the things you learn in school is straight away is Science, gravity, masses etc... a divine force presence causes all this??? I do not think so. Everything your saying, there are scientific explanations for. You genuinely think God is the cause for mutations in DNA? Mutations can happen in any type of growth. Everything is individual in it's own way, and there are no 2 people in this world exactly a like. Point being, we all grow in different ways, mutations cannot be determined. I actually can't believe what your saying, God created science. If you think for one minute how far this world has come or developed is down to God then so help you. We have done years and years of trials and error's. Getting things right and wrong and finding ways to improve. We started off as neanderthals and now look at us. God did not create everything around us. Everything material that your sitting on or using or wearing now was created by humans. From years of brilliant minds, hard work and fails. Clothes, shoes, money, processed food, water via tap's, electronics that your using now, are far to complex to be designed by God. This is allll science, the work of the amazing human brain. No God cannot be proven, when has it ever been proven? proved by a couple of books wrote hundreds of years ago, by people saying they saw something magnificent? God created us all... but Jesus, his son, was born via natural birth apparently. Science clearly proves that it takes a fertilized egg to create a human, not God sending an angel to tell Mary she is going to carry his child. That is my opinion. Again we are debating that God does or does not exist, when that is not the topic of this debate. The topic being is religion a bad thing? Yes. We have a socially diverse economy, everywhere you go we are divided. Weather we accept that division is a different story. Men, woman, children, black, white, asian, european and i could go on for ever about categories that we are non adversely dropped into. Why worsen this situation by adding to the mix? Protestants, Catholics, Atheists, Buddhist's, Rastafarian's, Muslim's and Hindu's. Are all more groups that we are put into, with completely different beliefs. As a result of this, we have wars. Irish Civil War? Based purely on a divide in religion. Our world, has enough problems, with illness, natural disasters, poverty and everything else that goes on it in, and then we do things like subject our women to years of misery and torment by forcing them to marry people they do not love, or force them to marry people triple their age because it co-insides with what they believe. There are places in this world, who simply cannot find answers for the terrible things that have happened around them, so they put it down to witch craft. I think some people need to believe in something to make them feel like they have a purpose or answers, and i do not have any argument with that. But it is a bad thing that all over this world, decisions are made in every day life that are horrendous, just because of religion. No, i did not conclude that our world is too developed to believe in God. I concluded that our world is too economically and socially developed to let any decision making especially major decisions such as war to be clouded by religion or a belief. I would like to underline the fact I said in no way do I deny people their rights to believe in their own religions.