Why i think religion does not benefit children By Rob

To start off, religion most definitely does not
benefit children in any way. This is for a number
of reasons.
First, you’re teaching an infant that if (s)he
doesn’t act within the limitations allowed by some
outdated, outmoded and very much inhuman code of
ethics, (s)he will burn for eternity.

Worse still,
even thoughts are criminalized in most of these
archaic systems of morality: what could possibly
be worse than restricting someone’s freedom of
thought?
Second, religion very blatantly and
apologetically undermines science. It happened
with Copernicus and Galileo, and it happens today.
People have managed to delude themselves into
either attributing all progress brought about by
the rigorous application of the scientific method
and peer-review process to some imaginary,
unprovable, omniscient, omnipotent and
omnibenevolent sky fairy, or otherwise ignoring
these advances outright. Most notably today, the
creationism movement wants to teach children that
evolution is little more than a silly ‘theory’
that scientists pulled out of nowhere to spite the
sky fairy. Spitting in the face of millenia of
progress is not the way to go about improving our
standard of living.
Now, what amazing things has religion done? Oh,
right, the crusades. And let’s not forget
fanatical terrorism.

These things all arose
because of a fundamental religion belief that the
actor was in the moral right, and that there was
not even the slightest possibility that their sky
fairy didn’t exist.
Any benefit that seems to come from religion, one
could give the example of Beethoven’s Ninth
Symphony, would have existed regardless. In this
case, Beethoven was inspired by a sense of
brotherhood which he attributed to a sky fairy. If
such a sky fairy did not, in fact, exist, there is
no reason to say that Beethoven would not have
felt the same sense of brotherhood.
Conversely, any problems seemingly caused by a
lack of religion, and I believe Stalin would be
the most commonly-cited instigator here, would
have arisen anyway. Stalin was not, contrary to
popular belief, motivated by atheism in his
actions against religion. Rather, he was violent
by nature, and it just so happened that he
believed the ideal world would have to be devoid
of religion, as opposed to being devoid of all
religion except Christianity, or Islam, or
Judaism

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Rob

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