Religion

Walk into any great cathedral and your eyes fall on the focal point of it all – a statue of a man being tortured to death.

Personally, I'd rather walk in and see children playing with balloons.

There can be no 'true' religion, because religion by definition is based on belief – and truth is not.

We might believe that the world is flat, the planets control our destiny, or the politician is honest.

But no matter how fervently we believe it, or how many of us believe the same thing, that doesn't make it true.

If a billion people are making a mistake – it's still a mistake.

(Just ask Galileo.)

When thinking about religion, it is important for an individual to consider the age-old question *What's in it for me?* Some, maybe even most, religions take more than they give.

My opinion towards religion?
Well I think religions are an important part of humanity...
But I really dont think that they are neccessary at all.
Maybe a kind of superior being exists... (let's say God, it's shorter...)
And logically this beeing created the universe.
So this beeing has created a perfect system or program called nature, which works on its own. God does not need to intervent any more. If he would it would only show, that he made misstakes during the creation. But how can a perfect beeing make misstakes??
So God is in my opinoin defenitly NOT among us.
It's useless to think about him, as he exists outside our physical reality out of time and out of space...we cannot know anything about him, he does not hear our prayers.
So what do we need religions for?
It's just our human (childish?) need for something higher, something to give us hope and something to lead us..

worship kindness, fortitude and generosity in the face of idiots and idols.

The opiate of the masses is the worship of rock stars, athletes and talk show hosts whose very inanity and nincompoopery is offered as proof of their art.