Is religion harmful or helpful

Answer 1

It's harmful when used as an excuse for excesses of any kind. When adhered to properly, religion may have many benefits. Religion connects you to the majority of mankind, past and present. No ancient society ever existed that did not believe in the supernatural. Those who dismiss belief may be compared to an astronaut floating away from the lifeline.

Also:

1) Religion may assist you in overcoming peer pressure.

2) Religion will often add to your self-discipline.

3) Religion may provide you with a whole additional layer of education.

4) Religion may provide emotional fortitude, helping one overcome hardships.

5) Religion will provide a sense of identity and a community, with its ambiance and mutual help.

6) Religion provides a life and a sense of purpose.

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Answer 2

Religion is very helpful. it gives us purpose in life and it also gives us hope that there is a wonderful place we go to when we die.

Answer 3

Religions very harmful. . Religions especially Abrahamic monotheistic religions are not just irrational, they are also, dangerous, barbaric, anti-human, and superstitious. Religion is the poison of the mind. Without religion good people do good things and bad people do bad things, but it takes religion for good and educated people to do evils. Religion is the poison of mind. How come educated neurosurgeon could believe that he would 72 virgins for flying aero plane into the building in the name of the Allah? There are everywhere mass shooting and manufacturing violence. Religions the big west of time. It abuses children and power and misuse countries resource to propagate is foolish ideology. Encourage to commit heinous crime blowing oneself into the crowd of innocent children. Religion root cause of evils including racism, fascism, Nazism and so on

Many brainwashed religious people claimed that God provides hope and happiness in worst case scenario in lives. Let’s perform thought experiment whether this claim hold water or not. Imagine a worst-case scenario in your life. Suppose you are devout believer. Suppose your innocent lovely child died to whom you love more than your lives. In what ways does your all powerful, all loving, and all merciful God provides hope and happiness in this sad moment of life? You pray every single day to your all loving, all merciful, and all-powerful personal God and yet thing happened to you. Would you say, thank you God, you provide me hope and happiness by sending my lovely child in the Heaven? I don’t think so. As matter of fact, your belief in your personal God will add salt in the injury. You will be frequently haunted by the question How come all powerful, all merciful, and loving God to whom you pray every single day let your child die? “If God is willing to save the child, but not able, then he is not all powerful. If he is able, but not willing, then he is evil-minded. If he is both able and willing, then why he let the innocent child die? If he is neither able nor willing, then why call him God?”- Epicurus (341–270 bc), one of the ancient Greek philosophers