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Polytheistic religions, once considered "idol worship", are the most peaceful and benign belief systems on offer today (Hinduism, Buddhism). On the other end of the scale, monotheistic faiths are divisive and based on utter compliance to senseless scripture. The promises are wild and erotic, the punishments are severe and the happiness is eternal. They are a masochists dream but a free thinkers enigma. Some rely on men knowing the mind of god and sharing his providence with all followers and others claim their prophets as empirical to living standards, hygiene and copulation. Monotheism is the denial of oneself to one's nature: it precludes masturbation, thinking about sex and even the wearing of disease preventative condoms. Its followers' beliefs are shaped while criticism is taboo and to think a degree from the proverbial line is admonished. Monotheistic religion is like checking one answer in a quiz that automatically checks each and every proceeding answer in the manner of that faith.

Why is it here? Well some would have you believe that it is necessary for morals but I assure you no significant decline in morality comes from denying one's gods. The reason we don't see more people as secularists is simply fear. The spine tingling fear of being subjected to hell upon death or harnessing god's wrath is unthinkable to believers. This is by no accident; this indoctrination is a precursor for families to initiate new members in and continue the "sacrosanct" baptism into perpetual fear of angering god. It is a rather efficient mechanism, don't you think? It is much like the Venus flytrap: once it has been entered, it is near impossible to escape again.
Religion may still be necessary in a dwindling, transitional stage in civilization. It is possible that man is not ready for complete secularism and religion is acting as a knot through which humans will hoist themselves up the rope ladder of evolution. It will fade, of this there is no doubt, and will leave nothing but a laugh in our posterity's throats and perhaps a sour taste or two.

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