did not understand anything that was of natural
phenomena, he often times ran to the easy and simple belief that
it was created from a god or a spirit or a ghost. Even beyond
that, though, the evidences and claims of religion are
synonymous with many cultural myths. As I have discussed in
other works, Santa Claus and god both have a remarkable amount
of similarities: both are mystical beings, both live far away,
both have no evidence, both are only believed because they are
taught by community and elders, both have not been demonstrated,
both have supernatural powers, among an enormous amount of other
similarities. But if one is not content to believe that a man
exists who delivers billions of presents to children on one
night of the year, then why would one be content to believe that
a man exists who delivers billions of souls to heaven or hell?
Upon the hundreds and hundreds of fallacies and errors, we find
that religion itself is something deprived of both merit and
science. It has, for ages, worked against the instruments of
truth, often times denying the population the right to think and
believe as they wish. We also find that the foundation for the
belief in religion is identical to the foundation for the belief
in many cultural myths which have also been abandoned. There is
little truth to be found in religion, once an open-minded
investigation has been allowed to examine its institutes.
Instead of finding a realistic and open-minded viewpoint of the
world, we find flaws, oppression, ignorance, and a sizable
amount of cruelty.
Only a small investigation into the real world would allow us
to discover that many individuals put much stock into the
institute of religion. If we were a free and intelligent people,
without the