It's a story and it has never made any sense to me.

What I reject is the delusional mentality of religions' practitioners, not the idea.

Like the concept of Santa, I outgrew the need for a god.

elders don't practice what they preach

I believe in each persons right to find God their own way. I believe Judaic based religions are based in falsehood

Believe in each persons right to find God

I don't reject the idea of religion I reject the practice of religion. I reject kids not getting medical treatment because an old book tells them God will heal all things if you pray hard enough. I reject children being taught that science is BS and it's just a bunch of men in white coats grabbing at grant money. And many more things

There is no actual evidence to support anything supernatural. The Randi Foundation's $million was never claimed.

It basically rejects the idea of making people think logically and rationally, instead, it indoctrinates things and stuff that cannot be proven just by referring to a book that underwent hundreds of revisions, additions, interpretations and again, revisions.

It's toxic to pretty much everything it touches. Religious people start wars whereas atheists rarely (of course, there are exceptions). Religious people - and this includes other "religions" like veganism, pro-GM, anti-GM... pro-organic, pro-choice, anti-choice etc. try to force their worldview on others. This is a very bad thing and it needs to be stopped.

Religion seems to be a method to describe things that are too complex for us to truthfully understand and accurately describe. Reality is scary, unfair, and disgusting. While at the same time it is lovely, humorous, and rewarding. In our primitive times, we needed a crutch, and many of us still need a crutch.

Religion is objectively a group with many subgroups, and also is used to divide. It has it's pros and cons. People who are part of a religion are more likely to be treated with respect, care, concern, support, etc. within that group. Those outside of that group will likely not receive those same perks from that group.

We can go much more into this putting in the concepts of structural functionalism, social constructionism, and social conflict theory, but that would be a little too much for now. The idea of religion is something that I have walked away from personality.

Still, if it wasn't for religion, our history would have been much different which again, has its pros and cons. Many charitable and altruistic traditions are rooted in religions, so that is a plus from my perspective.

It is the single most damaging thing to free thought ever to be invented!

I don't believe in heaven or hell and I think the bible is just a collection of stories someone made up. There are too many people who take it literally. Nobody rises from the dead!

I reject the teachings of religion I think all are ultimately harmful any belief structure around a deity is harmful and dangerous as we have all seen.

Religion began as a way for primitive humanity to explain the unexplainable. As we as a species and as a society have evolved, gained knowledge and found the true scientific explanations for natural phenomena, religion has refused to evolve along with us, and refused to concede to evidence of truth in the process. I cannot have blind faith (or ANY faith) in a group which chooses the comfort of what they want to believe to be true over the evidence that is right in front of them. Futhermore, the practice of religion is fraught with hypocrisy when it comes to morals. Those people who claim to leave judgement to their "god" are the very same people who do not live by the ideals which they preach. The idea that a person needs religion to be moral is as disgustingly hypocritical as it is just plain wrong.

I believe religion is orchestrated by man to control the masses and that it is one of the two fornicators.

Illogical and historically used to control people.

Religion and God are the worst ideas ever created by man. They are inherently dangerous concepts. They say that the world is not a knowable place. They deny the value of observation, evidence and rational discussion. They say that the senses cannot be trusted, that the individual cannot make reasoned, moral judgments, that higher authority must be consulted and obeyed. They allow men position themselves between earth and heaven, where they pretend to possess absolute truth and in doing so, control the actions of others. In the PBS series "The Ascent of Man," Professor Bronowski, standing ankle deep in an ashy swamp outside the gas chambers of Auschwitz, quotes the words of Cromwell, "In the bowels of Christ I beseech you, pray think you might be mistaken." There has never been a more eloquent statement on the dangers of absolutism than this.

Because if there were a god in the religious sense, he/she/it would not have created a world where people kill each other over different interpretations of who and what god is. The religious god is an idiot, a narcissist, and not a very nice being.

It impedes and infantalizes humankind; not to mention it makes humans who would otherwise be moral, empathetic humans into immoral, callous humans.

It has already been stated, but the control that it tries to put over on other people is a big hindrance.
The atrocities that come about due to contradictions about who is right. We would all be better off without it....??Imagine??

Number one, I never really believed it in t in the first place. Number two, I see absolutely no evidence for it. Number three, what meaningful religion would produce most of the Christians you see in the public forum today?

It's simple common freakin' sense. Things DO happen for a reason - and that reason is "cause and effect". Something happens, which causes something else to happen, which causes something else to occur. There's no magic or mystery to it. No supernatural being did it.

I think I'm just repeating what others have said, but I see all of the craziness done in the name of religion, with all the sheep just following along. How could I support that? The infighting, the judging, the greed. So called religious folks have been some of the worst people I've ever had the displeasure to know.

I just don't find any of it too convincing