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Originally posted by airpal
Nah, not a bad experience. I like to think for myself, question almost everything, and live life objectively. So after blindingly following a religion (for many years) because of family/tradition, I simply thought with an open mind, did a LOT of reading, and realized the original cause of religion was to control masses through fear. I asked hundreds of people as to why bother believing in religion/god, and not one single person could give me a solid reason. And it has made literally billions of people take an insane leap of faith, which affects their lives tremendously. The corruption of religion/religious leaders today, the way it segregates all humans and the way it attempts to control the way we live our lives, is just "icing on the cake". 
Unfortunately, Freud put it best when he said that religion is currently only practical to prevent anarchy/chaos. It's the easy way out to use fear instead of just educating people that killing each other is not beneficial for society as a whole.
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you should never follow anything blindingly! I've never followed anything without researching it first but fact is i have found that God does exist, only religion is a human product and not a product of God, he has given us the Bible and if you read it right you know what to do.
Please don't come back slapping the ten commandments around coz if you read the Bible you realize that Jesus is the only point of real importance and the rest is ancient history.
If you really wanna discuss this seriously hit me up anytime, I'm always open to discussions (given it's with an intellectual
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