Your right religion/god is a poison. It poisoned fools for thousands of years, I was once a fool like that. I finailly saw the light last February and I'm glad I did. I consider myself open minded person. I no longer have to worry about deity in the sky which don't exist or follow his rules. I have mentioned this in a number of posts, but I wish I became an atheist years ago. I think I would have been a happier person if I had.

I question the sanity of anyone that believes in fantasy. Playing fantasy games is one thing. Believing in them is crazy.

Indeed sir, indeed!

My Mother used to tell me if I was a bad boy, God would send the Devil to poke me in the back, while I was sleeping.
Scared the shit out of me the first time it happned.
Took me years to figure out the mad old bat was doing it herself.

Boo!

You know the song God Must Be A Boogie Man?

I used to be a charismatic Christian and that stuff you see in church isn't made up. People actually can make themselves feel things if they believe in them.

They can also make all the "miracles" happen and speaking in tongues, as well. Since all energy is connected, that's possible. The error is that people believe it's "god" who's doing it.

I laid hands on the sick and they were cured, or just thought it in my mind, and it happened. People, animals, didn't matter. My kids can do the same.
So could the white children who were captured by Native American Indians during the 1800s in west TX, US, if they'd been held captive at least six months.

These white kids (and captured adults as well) could also control the weather, control and tame wild horses with their minds, and predict the future.
I was born with all those abilities (as was my sister and mom), but these kids, raised as "rational" Christians were taught that such things couldn't happen, but they still did them after they were returned to their white families.

Even when she was toddler, people would ask my daughter to pray for them when they were sick, since they got instant relief..I suppose because they both believed it.

Physics indicates that we are participating in creating our own universes/reality, so there's nothing "woo" about it. People can manipulate energy in ways that others may perceive as impossible.

“I regard consciousness as fundamental and matter as derivative from consciousness." – Max Planck, theoretical physicist who originated quantum theory, 1918 Nobel Prize in Physics

I am glad you found your way out! So refreshing, isn't it?

All good there.