So many things. The most ridiculous is that when we invented gods, we didn't even give them any self confidence. That'll be like me making a tiny Lego man and then having such low self confidence that I'd want him to worship and bow down to me and then finally create a place where he worships me continuously for eternity. Very weird.

The root of what broke me free from being a baptist since childhood was the cognitive dissonance I felt when I tried to understand how a God who claimed to be Love, defined what love was in 1 Cor. 13, and acted in direct opposition by being jealous, angry, vengeful, and allowing a war in heaven and looking upon evil which he cannot stand to do. Now if he truly was omnipresent, omnipotent, omniscient, and self sufficient, then there would be no need for worship, no need for an adam/eve, noah's ark, and so on. (after all he already knew what path man/woman would take). If God truly created all things, we must also consider that he created both good & evil and by such is both. What is most ridiculous about worship is...worshipers are following books of cognitive dissonance without even using built-in common sense to evaluate if what we are reading is even genuine and even if genuine...does it make sense? Some crazy folks made some crazy books/movies/etc....who is to say those ancient writings aren't some babble from a mad man/woman?

Every part of it!

Nothing at all, as long as I'm the one being worshipped. ?

Everything

I don't understand blind faith. The "I have faith because my parents taught me to" doesn't register with me at all. For good or bad, I've made my own decisions.

At Christmas, singing about the virgin birth.

On Easter Sunday, singing "Hallelujah!" Jesus is risen from the dead!

Singing "Be still my soul, the Lord is on your side." Although I love the melody, I cringe at the lyrics.

Have been an atheist since age 13. I feel like a hypocrite singing hymns and Christmas carols.

The rituals. In every house of worship. I was raised jewish, but I remember comparing notes with my non-jewish friends on some of the things you had to do at services. Just could never get into the mindset of following a practice I didn't believe in.

The mysterious ways bullshit...

1. They died because they were needed in heaven.
2. They were all sinners and that's why there was a plague, the village was destroyed, the volcano destroyed their homes, the flood killed them all.
3. How one family had fried chicken and we ate beans and rice.
4. How me and my sister had to stand on stools to wash dishes. How he would dump the drawer on the floor if he found any spot on a spoon.
5. How praying for something simple was asking to much.
6. How God knows what we need and be happy with what you get.
7. How the preacher wanted a bigger jet because if jesus came back today he wouldn't be riding a donkey. Let's pray...
8. How it was so damn important to give all you got so we could save the people in Africa. Screw the nursing homes and old people in your neighborhood.
9. How we're taught to obey and not to question .
10. How you can say it's a miracle and not the medicine.

Watching OTHERS at church worship I tend to look at it very analytically: they're performing a type of meditation that makes them feel calmer and more at peace. They think they are worshipping THE actual god of the universe and that it is somehow for his benefit. And then I think, if I were the omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent god of the entire universe, why would I WANT or CARE that a bunch of teeny, tiny creatures on a tiny planet, in a tiny solar system, in an average galaxy way at one side of my universe are singing songs - fairly average and unremarkable songs, mind you - to try to please me?

But I don't begrudge those who get something out of it. Nobody has the corner on truth and we're all just trying to do our best and get through life, and toward that end we home in what works for us. Unlike many here, I believe there is an intelligent creator or consciousness out there and that our consciousness survives death - and I can understand people wanting to connect with their conception of it.

What I find amazing is how many people believe in speaking in tongues or in faith healing. I sometimes watch television preachers just to put myself in a state of dumbfoundedness. I watch as a television preacher commands the devil to leave the man who is crippled. So being ill is the devil taking over? It makes no sense to me.

Yawning.... geeze... I thought I was possessed.

Christians insisting the bible is the word of God when even if God existed what you are actually looking at is translations of translations of secondhand reports, hand copied and edited over a period of 2,000 years give or take by people with their own agendas. It is the end result of an extended game of Chinese whispers with some of the people along the way deliberately altering the message to their own advantage.

Spending so much time inside a building full of stale air talking about boring topics when right outside, the sun is shining and the weather is beautiful. And in my case, it can be raining and it's still beautiful out.

I can't think of one service that wasn't littered with boredom and drudgery, be it church service, wedding or funeral.

I have always found the phenomenon of transubstantiation absurd. In England while Henry Vlll was supporting the Catholic Church as the state religion (before he went to the Church of England), belief in transubstantiation was taken as evidence of appropriate religious beliefs. What?????That amounts to belief in ritual cannibalism. This is evidence of piety??? I find that ludicrous.

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I hate to see congregations singing in church on TV.

It's mass insanity and delusion. They also seem to be smug and self righteous, and completely unconcerned about the homophobia and misogyny their religion fuels.

So when I see them all grinning like junkies, high on their opium, I think to myself - 'toxic bigots'.

Saying the same thing over and over without the desired results. Sounds like the dummy doing the same thing over and over and expecting a change.

To be clear, I don't find worship inherently ridiculous. I have no problem with someone with a different belief system then mine finding comfort and purpose through acts of worship.

For me, it's the human quirks in the systems that confound me. Such as tradition for the sake of tradition. When the only argument for doing something a certain way is because that's how it's always been done, I just can't accept that.

The raw emotions based on something I know is utterly undefined or undefinable.
Like weeping over a question mark.
WTF?

I can’t understand the need to worship a “fictional character”!