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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I realized that religion is completely manmade.

I mean really when you think about it, what on earth makes Islam, Christianity, Judaism (etc) more plausible than Greek gods and mythology, or ancient Egyptian? Or why is monotheism any more plausible than polytheism?

The stories, the concepts of an afterlife, and so on are not any more believable (and in many cases, obviously borrowed and built upon).

People create and tell stories to have a sense of order. To structure what they feel is chaotic in the universe. Which is fine... but it's just a story in the absence of (or before) scientific understanding. Or to give comfort. But it's all completely manmade. 
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This. Why would it be true that homo sapiens only discover the true religion in the last 2000-4000 years when they've been around on Earth for hundreds of thousands of years worshipping sun gods, moon gods, sea gods, animal gods.  Who is to judge that Christians have the right idea but that Buddhists and Hindus don't?

Like others I studied history and learned about sales of indulgences, married popes and creation of saints and all manner of hypocrisy (as summarized by Martin Luther). [b]Once you've learned all this[/b], belief in religion seemed pretty close to belief in the tooth fairy.[/quote]

Yet there are people who know all this and still believe in god.  Maybe not the god of the Bible or of the Catholic church, but still a supreme being.[/quote]

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