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I don't begrudge anyone the right to believe in god, or many gods, of whatever sort they want. If you want to put faith before logic, hocus-pocus before material reality, more power to you. Just don't push it on me.

Organized religion is the real problem, because they seek to replicate, on a mass scale, the delusion of believing in some sort of Supreme Being. And they don't do it for benign reasons, but to serve the interests of power structures.

Religion is the opiate of the masses. The rulers love it -- what more could they ask for than for you to believe in the pie-in-the-sky concept that after you die you'll go to a better place, so don't worry too much about this brief sojourn down here. Because if you buy that crap, you're less likely to rise up and throw the rulers out.

And I won't even go into the whole morality issue, and how organized subvert people's understanding of what is and isn't moral, replacing things about sex and gender where what we ought to be concerned about morally are things like poverty and injustice!