Nothing has done more to separate and divide human beings one from another than exclusivist organized religion.
In order to have faith, or follow any other organized religion, I'd have to suspend a degree of disbelief.
Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people's business.
I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.
Organized religion: the world's largest pyramid scheme.
Not until the human heart is stolid to poetry, the human eye blind to beauty, not until the intellect ceases its quest for truth and conscience finds its quietus either in universal defeat or in triumphant success, will organized religion cease to be.
I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create other than humans just becoming more honest and fully aware of themselves.
Organized religion preaches Order and Love but spawns Chaos and Fury. Why?
In my opinion, most organized religion does neither agentic service nor relational nurturance very well.
If organized religion is the opium of the masses, then disorganized religion is the marijuana of the lunatic fringe.