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I don't believe God made man. I believe man made God.
One of the things that makes humans unique is that we always look for what caused things. That's what makes us intelligent and different from animals. But when you start searching for causes, you'll always have to go further and further.
I believe that man made the idea of God as a good-hearted way to find a simple and logical way to ease our minds of the 'problem' and soothe the masses. And what better way is it to tell people what to do?
But it's ignorant to follow the rules and guidelines written 2 millenias ago and apply it to modern society. If you'd look at the bible as a whole, and try to figure at what it really wants to say you'll find that the thought behind it is good and can be applied to modern society. I think one of the biggest problem today with religion is when people take religous books and think of them as 'rules' and start analyzing sentence for sentence, both in christianity and islam.
And the reason why religion (more so the church, really) is so disliked īn the academic world is obvious, isn't it? Religion (especially christianity) has always opposed science and fought against it since the very beginning. How can you respect an institution that blatantly tries to hide the truth?
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