Shoutbox

What you don't seem to understand is the fundemental idea behind religion. I'm not saying I agree with how most (hell, any) religions go about things, however the main goal of a religion is hope/faith and control of a society. While control seems bad, for the most part, it's good. If there was no religion, then society as you know it would not exist. Many laws out there today exist because of the religions that were in power before, and perhaps still are to some extent.

While I am not a devout Christian or anything of the sort, I do believe that there is a point to religion other than just giving out false information. The point of religion, at least today, very much seems to be to maintain some sort of organization and to ensure society has limits for things.

As such, my views are this; I agree with the concept, but I do not agree much with many of the things that were/are used to enforce such religions. A lot of the stories, though, should not be taken as "fact" but merely as stories that serve a moral purpose.