Religion is totally a form of control.
The bible was written by someone who smoked lots of weed and took heaps of acid!
And religious laws are based on peace.
Now, the fact that religion has god and the devil and all, well, these two were ruled out by science quite a long time ago.
In my honest opinion, religion was created to control and influence the masses. One thing we have to remember is that it was a creation of man, man fears death in all forms, it was then so designed to take the fear away from death, and make man feel as though he has a purpose on this earth, which is also rubbish! Much like the fly you just squished with a rolled up news paper died, and to you meant nothing, we die in much the same way. Our lives don't mean shit outside of ours and our companions heads.
We wont go to heaven (or hell) we will infact become part of the energy that we are derived from. We are atoms, in a general sense. And atoms represent energy. I could write a book on this theory, but I recomend you take a look at budism. While budism has it's gods and acolytes and dieties. It's basic recognition of energy is spot on.
Religion has too many flaws to quote, prophecy is bullshit. Much like christianism or cathlocism, the religions of the middle east are ful of bullshit and lies. It is used as an excuse to fight. And make money, control people.
Unfortunately the human mind is fragile and weak, if someone tells us we are going to heaven or hell we will believe them. It is because of our fragility that the world is in the state that it is now.
And...........I don't know what else to say now. If I think of something relevant, I will post it later.
Religion is bullshit, reality is the truth.
Peace