Religions

⚠️Warning

Like for every blog post, firstly please be sure to read blog info to understand my blog pages.

I will especially underline it because religions are a tough topic to discuss. Most people will probably not be open to even think about something else or doubt their lifetime practiced religion, especially when older (e.g. after 30). Additionally most internet forums and chats have a clear rule not to post about religions.

So if you’re a religious person and are not open to other people’s views (against religions), it may be best to leave this page.
On the other hand, it may even be especially valuable (perhaps after some time and thoughts needed) to visit it again and read it.
But I think it’s rather unlikely religious people would find this page. Or read it, especially if they don’t let any doubts to their mind.

⏱️Overview

On this page, I describe my views against religions. It includes my past and obsevations from when I was younger and raised by religious family.
Since over 20 years, I am an ateist. I do not believe in any religion. I find all to be false.
My mind is clear from any faith or believes and I think purely logically and reasonably.
I am of INTJ personality type, and it was intelligence that made me get rid of religions.
The wikipedia page arguments against the existence of God is my favorite as it logically explains. I recommend it, even more than my website.
Yet the world is still about 90% religious, which I find as (a likely) result of only 10% of people being of intelligent personality types.
Here a video about how religions work and continue (by manipulating children and their parents and preventing leaving by social coercion).

💡Introduction

Many religions are still present and practiced and many times people died or fought because of religions. Some are so intense that they tell people to kill people of different religions (extremists do it for their religion). While other religions only tell people how to live. This sums up in all human lives to a significant money cost and also a lot of time wasted.
Sure, you can learn something useful for life from religions too. For some this even motivated them and helped to have a better life without a bad, unhealthy addiction. But for me that was just a switch to a different addiction, (another) one based on lies and manipulation.
For me, especially later in life, religions are a waste of time and (in total) people’s lives too. Lastly it is a big profiting business like basically any other. Just look at all those big religious buildings everywhere.
It also is another system of control, like governments. Especially in countries with one dominating religion.

📜My history and observations

I was born and raised a Christian since my family was so too. Their parents also and honestly no doubt why, given how this religion was spread in county (over 90%) it’s taught in schools too, etc.

🚼Early beginning

At beginning in Christianity there is that christening ceremony. Usually already newborns are dragged into religion and marked (also registered) by priest, in church with their parents.
My point here is that religions start already with newborns and span across families too. Most addictions require being of legal age. But religions are already on a whole new level of addicting, it wasn’t even my choice to begin with. And children aren’t able to choose only adults can. That’s why IMO religions should be respectable and start only after reaching 18 years old by own choice, not by parents or state.

💊Addiction

I’ll put my saying here: the younger you are starting something the easier to get addicted (for life) and more severe, longer consequences are. When older (e.g. after 30 or 40), religious people won’t even consider any thoughts like: maybe this is all not needed, not true, and there is no God? Because it would mean they’d have to throw half of their life away (partly) and admit it was wasted on this. And like with every other addition, they will deny it, and find any possible, stupidest reasons to continue it.
Some addictions can be stopped quickly by people. I think usually religions can’t, they’d take years to get rid of. I think that usually: the more years a person lived believing, the more years it would take to naturally get rid of this addiction.

🙏Praying

There is little I remember from being few years old, but one thing is that: at some point my mom just showed me and told that I need to pray everyday. I think I still remember it because this was something odd, it felt like a chore and punishment, also unnatural and now even stupid I’ll add.

I can’t even, most people (young or old) just repeat same stuff over and over again praying. IMO it’s just stupid and definitely one of the worst ways to waste time in life. I even know a song “Praying Is Nothing”🎶, with lyrics related to it.
Additionally I found quite often to have many new ideas before sleep. Obviously I could not have them or would destroy/forget them by praying instead.
What does repeating stuff do? It makes people believe it’s true, it also addicts. That’s why I think now, I stopped praying first.
Repeating same, old stuff over and over is on the opposite side of having unique ideas and thoughts, which can analyse or solve problems or start new inventions, science formulas, or just better products.

Islam requires praying 5 times daily at certain times, on a special carpet. Well I’d say it is stronger addicting and wasting more life’s time.
I find such pictures rather disturbing to see lots of people praying🛐, e.g. Islam here and here, other near temples, in Vatican too, and even more here. I guess such big praying locations will last very long or would be the last standing, even if religions suddenly vanished.

On the other hand I found love parade❤️ intriguing and interesting to watch😎, while I don’t find crowds pleasant to be in at all, as I am an introvert. Either way I find such gatherings (especially if it includes traveling) to be just for profit events, enjoyable by those who feel and want to be there live, instead of watching on screen or just ignoring.

💵Money

When I was a little kid I even at some point said I wanted to be a priest, which was after I saw how money is collected in churches by priests (from all, during mass). I think it was the first time (or one of) I saw money. Well I never paid in church, but being with family members, they always handed me money to give it to priest.
I remember early in school some teenagers pressed with questions in class: from what our priest was earning money. He finally admitted that from weddings, burials. I now know also for: extra masses with dedication, those who play music in churches, paying for graves, etc. Yeah surely if you’ll have any of those occasions, then you’ll get the bill and need to pay money, not small I’ll add. And let’s not forget voluntary offerings (big or small) every mass. Mass takes about 40 to 60 min and ends with some church news and a list of things you could spend money on there, like renovations, missions, etc. There is also an accompanying business of producing all those holy symbols, images and all candles🕯️, flowers and what not for the graves🪦, with at least once a year (on All_Saints’_Day) a huge display of them (and consumerism).
Since it all needs transportation, people usually will loose time (and money) to get there and back (e.g. by car, bus, walking, etc).

⛪Attendence

Attendence in churches is required every week, or even more often during holidays (like Christmas and Easter). Well it’s very habit building and for a life time addiction. And it’s in favour (profit) of the businesses behind religion(s).

I remember for long I didn’t talk or sing inside churches, and was only present. I also really didn’t like confessions and that even masturbating once after, looses that grace (or something) and you’d end in hell if you died then, ugh so much bullshit. Penalty (atonement) for sins is usually just more praying or more mess attendance which is simply forcing more habit and addiction.

Ultimately I think my intelligence and being itroverted (INTJ) won and let me drop it then. I think being around people with same addiction is what addicts like, especially extroverts. Happens in churches (and this technique is called social coercion), also on concerts, sport stadiums, etc. But surely not everyone thinks of those as (for profit) addictions like I do. I can also add that this religious social coercion or crowd psychology didn’t work on me, I put always first being myself and my preferences and not doing what others do or want me to. It already started when I was in kindergarten.

🤔Thinking vs believing

Being constantly subjected to talks and thinking about religion (or God) does affect your mind, instead of thinking logically only or about anything else.
The more you believe (more faith you have) the more you silence or numb your brain’s thinking. Especially true for me as INTJ and for other intelligent people (*NT* personality types). So (at least) in my case, returning to faith would mean getting stupider, shutting off my best personality trait (partly) to do what other belivers do, simply because others told them so, without proving it, logically.

🌏Percentages

Why is it so common? Well *NT* types are rare, in about 10% of all people. I think there is a (maybe slight) corelation here with the percentage of atheists also about 10% of world population.
But there are other reasons people are atheists. State atheism has more info about countries which were forcing atheism or are so. It’d be a pity if people associated atheism with communism or dictatorship. Not with an intelligent, individual human’s choice.

🙅Doubt

Mine

I think when I was like 16 years old (and still Christian) I had my first doubt, if God does intervene on Earth, i.e. does something. I thought about asking a priest that too, but with no way I didn’t and I’m glad now.
Being 18 and rebellious in high school likely helped here too. I tried once not going to church for a year to see if anything changes at all. For years I didn’t like going to church every Sunday. I also didn’t like that “ancient theatre” there since I started to call it so. Well needless to say I never had any sign or anything divine, proving to me then that there is no God. I only had my family complaining. (This was all before I had internet).

Others

A (very) religious person will never doubt, will not let any logical thought disturb their faith. That’s what religions are about, believing only, not: checking if it’s true, testing what it does, finding flaws of religion(s), learning about (other) religions (from wikipedia), etc. Basically all common ways of learning, reasoning and logic, used also in science, technical subjects (math, physics, chemistry) and even non technical like managing people at work.

Lastly, those who never doubt are set on path, given by those with power. It can happen in countries by dictators, leaders, politicians, etc. In case of religions it can span even whole lifetimes and families. For me this is basically part time slavery.

🕚Time

I did a simple computation (in high school) how much time yearly I waste on being in church and roughly this was: 54 * 1.5 = 81 hours, if we divide this by 8 that’s like 10 days of extra vacation. Now who wouldn’t like having this instead of e.g. work or school.

I think I got back after for a year again but then I stopped completely. I remember the frequent family talks that I should go etc. I’m glad though this eventually subsided. But surely more severe consequences are happening worldwide like family abandoning their child(ren) etc.
Only thing left was Christmas or Easter since my family was pressing a lot to be at least then.

After few years still, my brain finally cleared from all that nonsense. Leaving room for logical thoughts and reasoning that maybe there is no God and all this is just a hoax. Later I understood it’s also a system of controlling, ruling and enslaving people, in vast quantities and pecentages of their lives.

Since many years I don’t waste any time yearly for religion or religious activities. Restored time I can spend on anything intelligent, entertaining or just resting.
Like with other addictions, if you get rid of it, you’ll get more time in life. But it comes with more responsibility. It’s up to you how to use that time. It would be stupid to waste it on another addiction. But even if so, we don’t do it regularly, right? It’s not like I would always waste time instead of visiting church for mass. I can do various things (at home) instead.
Being in church is simply a for-profit activity, like in any other business (e.g. being in cinema or shopping mall) and when done regularly it builds habit and addiction. It does bring profits for businesses and losses for humanity.

⏳Finally

Today I can answer all my questions immediately: there is no God, some people invented it all, thousands of years ago (when most couldn’t even read, knew nothing about science, etc.) and this is still a gigantic business, profiting on those who got into. I’m not surprised too much even, given how many other things are just lies in our world and how naive people can still be. Even countries and whole humanity of which 90% isn’t thinking logically.

I’m pretty sure even if I asked any priest the answer to any question(s) would mention God a couple of times and our belief (and that we have to believe), maybe with some examples from bible. Because believing is the key what matters here. Without it religions wouldn’t still exist. Same if it was the opposite and 90% of people were thinking logically.

There surely are some good things because of Christianity, one example I know are nuns, and their voluntary help in hospitals. Perhaps missions in Africa also. But this help for others is done including the wrong message, it comes with all the lies and manipulations that religions bring.
Honestly religions don’t (necessarily) help people. Some alcoholics or other addicts go to churches every Sunday and it didn’t help them at all in getting rid of their addictions.
The goal of confessions and forgiving God is (for me) creating necessity for attendance and priest jobs or churches to even exist.

🧬Purpose of life

One question bothered me also when I was young: why do people live?
I remember asking it few of my closest family members and a close friend.

1. my closest uncle (a religious fanatic) immediately started about salvation, eden/paradise, God, etc.
2. my dad answered: it’s about doing what makes you happy and then mentined God, eternal life etc.
3. my friend answered: to sustain our species. It was as simple as that, nothing more. I immediately liked his answer, it is also my view.

After reading some of wikipedia pages with much more info about this dilema (question), I know that’s another reason why religions (still) exist too. They answer the one question that eventually most of people will ask. It’s just that they do it by lying and do it for their own purpose (profit), while also taking control of (by few percent of) people’s lives and enslaving them (even since kids) and manipulating parents to pass it to their kids. In worst religion it

Ad. 1. So the first answer above is the most wrong, since there is no God and religions were made also to give a fake purpose of life, but the real reason is of course their profits and control. How religions work is best explained in this video.
Ad. 2. Second answer is still bad. Being happy is not well defined, and it won’t be since it’s an emotion. I think it will depend greatly on each person and change in time.
But surely, expanding this to the further point of view: everyone is meant to find themselves a life purpose. Of course this does vary a lot across humanity: there are people helping others, some are selfish, others toxic and lastly a few percent of psychopats and sociopaths (shorter page, and images with differences).
Ad. 3. Well this answer is the only one true and also universal to all species. The purpose of life is continuing life itself. Nothing more.
But since human brains have more IQ than other species and we are using hands, fingers, tools, etc. people have made up plenty of (mostly stupid, not good for humanity) reasons to control or manipulate other’s lives or purpose like religions, governments, dictatorships, military, crime, terrorism, etc.

🏦Big issues⚖️

And there are also really bad cases of wrong turned priests (and other religious leaders). I’ve heard from my taxi driving cousin that he was driving a priest to a brothel (don’t remember how often), yeah great use of church budget. And even priests molesting minors with again an own long wiki here.

Lastly elderly people can get convinced by some priests to give money to churches, sometimes huge sums in total. And for what? For personal spendings? Gambling? I know, missions, spreading to other countries, repairs, and building more big churches, right? Aren’t there enough excessive ones already from old ages? I doubt if this changed much after Covid when people couldn’t go. Lastly for covering expenses for case settlings of abuse victims, if lying didn’t help cover them.

Some people get too passionate and obsessed with religion, spend more, travel with others to visit religious sites organized by church, almost constantly praying during that also with others. For me this is just too ancient, wrong purpose and wasted opportunity to do something else useful for others.

Well the list goes on I’m sure. Like with anything else also here religions aren’t a solution. And if you contribute and give money to this, you contribute to all of it, including the worst things. If only time and thoughts, then its just wasted life’s time (IMHO). If you raise your children in faith then you rob them of freedom and thinking, in favour of believing and being.

I’m sure there are deeply religious people who even know of these, yet they will find a reason to continue being religious or even further put religion into more of their lifetime or activities.

Religious commercials and Poland

Poland🇵🇱 is the country I was born in and raised Christian by my religious family. And since I became atheist (by logical reasons) I have noticed a lot of things in this country that promote religion. These can be also present in other countries or religions, just look different.
Of course in a country with religious majority those will be considered normal, needed, etc.
But for me all these things are to keep and spread religion and also act as religious commercials.
So here is my list of them (all I could think of) with my negative comments.

• Churches⛪. Way too often, like every km (0.6 mi) same as schools.
  One other loud thing churches have is the bell🔔. Which I’m sure was and still somewhat is a great reminder (and the simples commercial) of religion in about 1.6km (or 1mi) radius. The bell is quite loud and I would surely be pissed if a church was near. I still can hear it if I opened a window or outside or in my garden. It does sound at times when mass is about to be in church. Either way it’s a disturbance of silence, a noisy commercial that is allowed since centuries. Churches are also quite big and have a cross on top, well same reason. Well those are meant to be visible and heard from large distances (at least in Europe) to gain most recognition.
• Other religious buildings like: sanctuaries, nun monasteries, etc. Maybe even bigger.
• Pope related buildings and icons. Since one pope was born in Poland this turned into even more religion and pope obsession, after death too. Surely lots of profits from this.
• Pilgrimages to sacred places, i.e. places of ancient religious activities, or places mentioned in bible etc.
• Religious oases and other circles (near churches) with meetings and activities for youth and young people, but centered around religion. For me just a waste of time, nothing intelligent there.
• Religion it’s taught in public schools🏫. Elementary and high schools. I had it 1h every week. It was probably easier to just sit and ignore, rather than make it so I wouldn’t attend, would still have to be somewhere else for 1h.
  It’s present like other patriotic subjects (Polish literature and History, forced even in technical high school each year) meant to spread patriotism. Obviously this generates some profit for country, by imprinting those ideas in people since young ages.
• Each school has a cross and Polish emblem. For me a clear commercial of both, and just an extension, reminder of the above point. Like that itself wasn’t enough or too much already. Reason is like so: if you get addicted to any (main religion in country or patriotism) you will be unlikely to leave. This means most profit, so it’s justified to promote this and commercialize. Emblems are rather cheap but have power. Same goes for country flags🇵🇱, just for patriotism. Whoever had a flag outside is for me invested too much in country of residence and made a free commercial for it.
• Some private schools🏫 are Christian. Probably with more religion subjects there. If parents are very religious and rich, they prefer that. Obviously I see it as bad for children as it hinders more their brain and free will. But once kids keep this religion spiral for years too long they arelikely keep it for life, that’s clearly the purpose.
• Some hospitals🏥 are Christian. These contain plenty of religious icons and services on site. Not needed at all, but surely spreading or keeping religion and appealing to already older, religious people there.
• Religious radio📻 and TV channel(s). I can’t even listen to that for few seconds. Yet it goes on everyday for hours, blabering about all possible religious topics in that calm voice for weak people. I’m sure it’s okay for those older people who already won’t change. But surely it can make it worse, make people more addicted to religion, by doing more commercials of religious places to visit, ways to give or spend money to, advice more time and reasons for praying, etc. All wasting people’s time and money.
• There are also lots of similarly purposed relgious websites, which obviously can have somewhere (or annoyingly) visible ways for donating money.
• Religious politic parties. I think they saw an opportunity and just went to profit on that. Probably ages ago too.
  IMO governments and religions are not that far from each other: both systems of controlling society, telling people what to do, and profiting on them. Especially those fooled by their propaganda or by dictatorships.
• Cemetaries🪦. Including their shops of candles🕯️, flowers💐, and other decorations. For me it is sickening to see people benefiting and addicting others (who suffered a loss) to visiting graves (not needed at all) and buying stuff to put on them. Instead of moving on and not obsessing with dead bodies of people who passed and aren’t there. Needles to say, you have to pay for a grave to rent it.
  There are countries who don’t have or just don’t waste space for graves (like China) and burn corpses (cremation) which can also be more environmentally friendly and wastes less space.
• Marriages💒. Well another religious activity, made for profit. This one has even gone more out of control, with how much money can be spent on it by celebrities and other rich people. Depends also on how many guests are on wedding. On the other hand it is completely not needed as civil mariage is key and weddings are just an ever expensive tradition.
• Christmass🎄 or Easter🪺 in malls. Lots of commercial garbage, decorations, etc. Loosely related to religion, now mostly meaning huge profits from more customers at that time period.
• Mechandise. Symbols, Icons🖼️. So e.g. paintings of saints or other religious people, crosses, figurines, calendars, rosaries (for more praying), bibles. Religious papers or magazines too. For me this just shows how religion is closely similar to any other business, seriously. People are actually paying for being stupider.

⏳Resources

In this chapter I gather various internet resources I found later (after I quit religion), with my comments.

📑Contradictions

There are some other pages on internet. One website also stated (in short) that given how many different religions are this means all are untrue. There is even some straight up made one lately like this.

Few are listing plenty of contradictions in the bible (e.g. here, here, or this pdf with 101, and another).
I also found the middle age history of Christianity (crusades, inquisitions) to be particularly brutal, horrid and disqualifying them in modern times.

Yet there are still many countries in which still the majority is religious. Well imagine how many world problems we could together solve or knowledge learn to make our lives better if we skipped all religions.

⛪Faith

Religions are often called faith. And this is really a great explanation of what happens here. They don’t need to be true, don’t need to be based on facts, no need to prove them or any events. All that’s needed for them is faith. Why is it bad? Well having faith means dropping / disregarding logic (I’d say at least few %) and tricking your brain to believe in something rather than proving it’s true first and basing your live only on facts and getting to the truth (so contaminated and lied these days by media, politics, lobbyists, bribes, influencers, and misinformed people who talk or write too much).

There was also one quote (I can’t remember source):
“belief in God is for those who don’t believe in themselves”.
I.e. that they can be fine or even better without religions.

➡️Logic, Atheism

Later I was reading these great wikipedia pages: about atheism and arguments against the existence of God.
I highly recommend them since they have a lot more on the topic. As a person who thinks logically I found them very enjoyable and even priceless. I didn’t know there were so many logical reasons against religions. Yet countries are still overly full (percentages are here) of religious people. I.e. those who prefer to hinder their brain’s logical thinking (or don’t have it) to blindly believe and not even doubt. For me clearly too many people died or lost their lives (at least a portion if it) to religions.
I also agree that religions remove freedom from people and do enslave them (to some degree, just like countries). Yet nearly a half of the world has still issues and even strong penalties, e.g. Blasphemy_law (map also there).

🏜️Intense

Some religions are more intense than others, wikipedia shows it. I’m not sure how severe it still is today (as it seems to improve). A religion that tells (at least in extreme cases) to kill other religions members. Also penalty for leaving that religion (apostasy map by country) is (surely was) death, wiki here. Praying is done 5 times a day. It consumes the most daily time and is most demanding. Rituals and traditions are intense to guarantee continuation and spreading of that religion (and possibly governments), while those who oppose it face even torture, years in prison or death.
Well for an European (or a developed Christian country) member this is likely a different level, it’s the most controling and harmful religion, just like there are such countries/governments.
Any changes are difficult there too, but there were some finally, since this violates human rights (for example in this long wiki page). Another issue present in such religion is inequality for women (very extreme, a quick video here), and hostility for LGBTQ people, and many others like limited freedom of speech.

🧑‍🔬Religion vs Science

Another wiki page with attitudes towards science shows that there are some issues: the most intense religious countries have disregard towards evolution and generally religion there didn’t let science in (as much in other countries). Well for me it’s clear, since religion is rather the opposite of science and using pure science would deny religions. Religions are social traditions, based on believes which came to be way before most of scientific research. This likely backs up my point that the more time is spent/wasted on religion the less time is left for science (also just logic and reason).

But the world doesn’t fully and only move towards science and freedom. Far from that. The world is ruled by those with most money and thus power, also by military, can be affected by influence, lobbying etc. I write more on this on my page: human stupidity. Surely forcing and continuing thousand(s) of years traditions (by countries) is the opposite of what should be done (for true freedom or humanity in an overpopulated and manipulated world).

I remember a scene (video part) from a Star Trek movie where a large spacecraft reveals itself to some tribal, painted people who then get in awe and probably start praising it as god or something new in their believes. Honestly I think, looking at Earth where majority of people are still religious (and do pray, just in a bit more modern way than tribes do) it looks somewhat similar to that scene just at a vast, global scale (not few people in tribe but billions) and that I find to be stupid. I think we should let science fully take over and finally forget religions, it’s been way too long time wasted on those IMO primitive believes.

👶Continuity

Generally (most) religions are set up in a way that ensures continuity. I mean they tell people to marry and have children (then pass religion to them early without a choice) and having sex before marriage or masturbating is considered sin and wrong by many religions.
I value freedom the most and in purest form (IMO) this means nothing and nobody should tell others what to do. Yet religions clearly do it. Some more, others less, but they definitely tell people how to live, and it’s for religion’s profit. The most intense religions (and cults) do it by force, and less intense just count on people’s stupidity (that thing present in 90% of people, and we’re all born with it).
I will write a short, (even more) bold, intense, to the point criticism of all religions on my page about human stupidity. After all I think they’re the result of it globally.

🌎Internet

I recently found few very good (and already 15 years old) videos:
First: The Internet: Where religions come to die by Thunderf00t
It shows how religions function, how they work. Firstly by abusing children’s minds, passing religon by their parents. Secondly by social coercion, people in groups keeping/forcing each other into doing the same thing and making it harder for anyone to leave religion.

Video also includes a fragment about a cult (definition e.g. here), other full video about it, rather dreadful, titled “The End Of The World Cult (Cult & Child Abuse Documentary)”. A bit hard to watch those inside cult, it’s like looking at people who have lost their brain and any logic or reason. That’s what cults and religions do, they brainwash people. It’s just that cults are more intense and use stronger, crime based methods, and have less members, while religions do it less intense but at a large scale for billions of people.

📖Bible

Next a 4 video playlist: The Bible for Beginners showing that only 10% of Christians have read it. And analysing few ridiculous texts from the Bible.

Last video sounds like actual people from 2000 years ago describing things they knew nothing about and thought there is some God, behind what was just nature based event: Was God a Volcano?. Another video with Bible’s description of heaven, sounding like written under drugs or alcohol and surely not like how most still think of paradise or heaven. First one with God’s fury and desire to kill those who oppose his religion. Well clearly sounds like a ruler of medieval ages (filled with sword battles) not any superior or divine being. Third video of Jusus talking about killing children of a woman who did a sexual crime or such. And later promoting genocide and theft to those without his faith.

📉Solution

I think the only solution to problem of religions still existing and continuing is atheism. In other words the goal is to eventually stop all religions, and all such false ancient beliefs. This is of course easy to write but very unlikely and slow to do globally. I think there is progress. Some stats saying there is up to 1 billion atheists/agnostics etc. Still over 2 billion Christians), 2 billion Muslims (Islam), 1 billion for Hinduism, and less for other religions (stats here).

I honestly think the world is about 100 years back in progress, didn’t move much, people are still driving cars, trains, planes, using gasoline, gas, coal etc.
But in case of religions it is thousand(s) of years, basically lost.

And it’d be a complex transformation to get rid of religions and they span across countries, governments, politics, traditions and family members. It is for sure an individual approach for each human if even possible and how to move to atheism. E.g. with Islam it’d likely require to abandon country, whole family and even that is not certain since in some cases people were killed abroad.

🔍How to move away from religion

Here is my simple guide to help anyone move away or completely get rid of religion from their life.
Obviously this is a long process, it may be not possible for some. I’d say it is like getting rid of an addiction but slower.
So for anyone interested, here is what you could do:

• Doubt. Let to yourself any thoughts that question things.
• Use logic and reason. Especially for those years long believes that so many take for truth, yet nobody proved scientifically.
  It is also a very good way to deal with other things in life.
• Read and learn (from wikipedia or internet) more about your religion.
  You might be surprised how many branches from each main religion are available now, or about it’s history (violent in early ages).
• Read also about other Religions (page with major ones and their world’s percentage).
  E.g. Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Judaism. I find these pages way to long and boring. But it shows how incredibly long is the history and how much time and effort was spent on continuing religions since thousand(s) of years.
  Here a basic map of the world‘s countries with main religions percentages.
• If you have children then don’t force your religion on them. Obviously it’d be worse for them since religions are made to abuse children’s minds by thier religions parents. The only way to stop spreading religion by its design is to give children
  Since older, or very religious people won’t even get here or into later points I’ll put it boldly: just because you believe (and thus are partly stupid, even if forced or manipulated into) doesn’t mean you have to spread it to your kids. Let them choose and be free of religion if they’re smarter and wish so, even if just by being rebelious.
• Don’t descriminate people of different or no religion. Every one has (or should have) the human right for freedom of religion including also freedom from religion.
  Now this of course means that religions (their entities, people running them) can profit on people. Including their commercials for religion. But I think the only way to change that is by people realising religions cause are false and causee harm globaly instead of helping.
• At some point if you can think logically and reasonably also in regards to religion(s), you might (start or finally) read the logical arguments against the existence of God (only applies to few religions based on God).
  Or the Atheism page. It is a considerably large group of people.
• Move away from praying. Can be slowly, by gradually skipping some, or all at once if you can.
  (of course this may even be started earlier, before reading above pages)
  You will gain more time of your life back, clear you mind from blind believs, and thus make room or let your brain do logical thinking, or just focus more on what’s currently important in your life.
• Now obviously, most people (about 90%) aren’t so intelligent to just logically think (or read above arguments) and disqualify religions as being untrue.
  Sadly most people do what others do, or what they feel like, or what others do because how it makes them feel, etc.
  Since religions usually already start from kids, this can include family members, school colleagues, friends etc. It helps being introverted and just not having many people you keep contact with. Likely can be a problem for extroverts in religious countries since loosing religion may mean loosing some of them.
• Move away from all other religious media, like: religious get togethers, magazines, radios. They are definitely not going to doubt.
• Move away from visiting religious places, and being around only religious people.
  This is also the social aspect of religions (manipulating, controlling and addicting people).
  This social coercion is also meant to make it difficult to leave religion(s).
• Possibly be prepared to “loose” contact with some people (like friends, colleagues or even family members) when you loose your religion. Sadly it’s like getting rid of addiction, if you know them only because you share an addiction, then they’re not helping you, they just addicted. If they can’t get past that and tolerate someone with different choice, then they’re violating your freedom (right to choose religion or none).
• If you completely move away and don’t spend time at all each year for any religion, you’ll definitely have more time and freedom. It’s of course important to use it well and not just waste it.
• It doesn’t end here, after getting rid of any addiciton (religion being one of), we can help others with their addiction. Of course the first thing is making someone realize of being addicted and needing help. Not every one needs help though and it’s likely better to ignore older, stubborn or just stupid people. Even though they’re making the world stupider and allow others profiting more on this stupidity.