I think religion sucks. It more than often leads people to some level of ignorance. Faith, as some religious people said, is needed to approach things beyond our natural logic and human senses. That is exactly where the problem lies.
People just got too busy down working on their faith, that hocus pocus of the undefined and unperceptible world, while leaving their heads unoccupied with relevant arguments for the spiritual events that take place in their heart and soul. Just because religion requires faith and faith seeks no proof, it doesn’t says that we should forget about reasoning at all.
To become the true believer of something, you somehow first got to become the true doubter of it and find the exact opposite paradigm which cancels your doubts. That’s not the basic formula, of course, but at least you need to find out the hard base for your own set of belief. But sadly in any religion, doubt is almost identical to sin, eventhough it is used positively to re-test and confirm the message of a certain faith issue.
Religion does not give any chance for the believer to examine objectively the provided truth and premises. Religion asks people to just accept the whatever truth its telling about, the hell with whether you understand it or not. Therefore it promotes blind obedience, which eventually leads to ignorance. This suits to Robert Ingersoll’s statement, ‘Our ignorance is God; what we know is science.’
A hot pot of melted atheistic, skeptic, philosophic, and also theistic beliefs. That’s me. Some people are just satisfied with the handed results. But for me, I don’t want to embrace such dead religion. I’m not a religion person. I’m a spiritual person. Learning how to think, not what to think.