zeitgeist made a lot of good points, but some of the views in the beginning are bogus.
when religion first started, there was only one god.
god had no face, no sculptures in his name, no prophets.
god was said to have died and replaced by polytheistic religions(multiple god
religions) due to the fear of why mankind and our surroundings exist.
advancement of technology explained why fire/water existed, why we have
harvest time and so on. only thing we cant prove is what happens in the after life,
therefore we still have a fear of that and went back to monotheistic religions(one god religions with prophets such as islam/judaism/christianity*the big three*)
i cant remember the exact religion/god for some reason right now, its on the top of my tounge, but judaism was stolen from a pagan religion. this took place when the now to be called isrealites were imprisoned in babylon. they stole their whole belief system from a previous religion and threw in their own ideas. christianity came from that and so on.
thats why if you read in the qur'an, you'll see how the prophet mohammed took ideas from christianity/judaism and threw in a bunch of his own ideas. he saw how christianity/judaism brought countries together to form alliances to fight major wars. he was definitely successful lol
religion kills more people in the world than aids/cancer/drinking and driving or guns*not in war use*
dont follow man made religion, just do good by yourself and others. love life and appky your natural abilities to everyday life. islam/christianity/judaism and several other religions all share the same god, but each one feels that they are superioer to every belief.
just ask yourself?
did God really want catholocism to exist?
just think about it
God is a jealous God, you worship nothing but him.
catholics worship/praise mary and saints haha
i am agnostic btw and i am completely fascinated by religion