I agree on all 12 points.

Brilliant!

Hadn't seen this, so no apologies needed.

A good summary of the tribal, cultish aspects of religion.

#3 is one of the main objections I have, but in the form of Weinberg's quote: Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

An excellent list! We all should share it with our friends.

Fear and stupidity joined up to prevent logic from having a place in the formation of societies globally.

We certainly would be living in a better world without these religious ideas.

Organised religion has released a few clangers in its time, its good to revisit the highlights.

Good list but I disagree with their portrayal of karma as a way to blame a victim of something awful. I’m sure there’s a shithead way of interpreting anything but I’ve never heard it applied like that. I don’t think the theory behind karma is that all our circumstances are 100% dictated by what we’ve done in the past. It’s just a way of extending the golden rule into every present moment; to behave as if your intentions and actions will come back to you.

Thinking about what might be your bad karma in retrospect seems like a very western perversion of the concept. Karma only does any good if you’re acting on it in the present. At worst it may be wishful thinking or confirmation bias in noticing patterns. I don’t expect rewards immediately from doing good things, but I have certainly seen others and occasionally myself made a fool of by our own anger. Gettin straight up hoist by your own petard is definitely a thing and the idea of karma is a pretty useful warning lol. Just seems like good common sense to me. You do good, you feel good. You do bad and you’ll feel bad. Probably. Unless you’re a sociopath.

Original sin has done more damage to humankind than any other idea ─ in Christianity and out, because it's highly contagious.

It’s the first time I’ve seen it. Thank you

I think it is always a good idea to share these contributions.

I think it is always a good idea to share these contributions.