The Insanity of Religion, and How Organized Religion Depends on Your Ignorance

Preface-

I don't have any profound stories of miracles to share with you. Indeed, this writing is not thus written with the intention of converting you to or away from any faith, though if you are a person of firmly-convicted beliefs, you will find those beliefs challenged in that faith's basis here, and unapologetically so.

What I intend with this article is to present challenge and clarification to the lies surrounding the methods and underlying intentions of monotheistic religions. I will not resort to high-minded verbosity or excessive scientific phrasings in this rendering, as it is also my intention that it be readable by those who have not purchased a quarter-million dollar vocabulary or fluency in latin, greek, hebrew or anything at all beyond a simple, pedestrian fluency in english.

Indeed, and throughout the entirety as must be clarified, I intend to make you think, good reader. Lastly stated though it is, it is first and foremost amongst my intentions; I intend to make you think, and to provide to you incontrovertible reasons to do so. Whether you find yourself agreeing with my primary assertion, being the title of this article, or not is entirely for you to determine, and to determine this for yourself, you must think.

What I do not intend with this article is to replace one battery of lies with another, to replace one faulty way of thinking with another or to trick you into agreeing with me. Trickery is the tool of con-men, the faulty, the defective and the erroneous, and it has neither welcome nor utilization here.

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1. They lie to you; Why

There is a fairly decent chance that you aren't a stupid or foolish person. Monotheistic orthodoxy assumes not only that you are, but in so treating you, strives to convince you that you are precisely that; stupid and foolish. It is assumed by all monotheisms that you are imperfect before them, and only through them can you pursue betterment.