If you do not understand the deeper meaning of the various world religions, it will seem like a scam. Atheism is even more of a scam. You can say it's the biggest scam of all time. If you have realized that God is absolutely real, you will realize how much of a scam atheism is.

Many religions at their core are about freedom and power and atheism is the total opposite.

To me religion is a scam only if you let it get to you. Unfortunately there are those leaders who take and twist God’s holy word to make people believe what they say from it true and unfortunately there are those people who will listen and take those facts to heart and believe what they say to heart only in the end to be scammed.

Mostly all is.

Reflecting on the virgin births of Jesus, Perseus, Buddha, Genghis Khan, Horus, Krishna, Mercury, Romulus, the Aztec God Huitzilopochtli, and for my Vegan friends the Phrygian god of vegetation - Attis among others. I just love history and the stories that are created as placeholders until scientific discovery takes its place. Unfortunately, however, many fail to see fiction for what it is. Why do you ask?

Religion is only alive today still because of the way the brain is wired at birth:
(((The brain development phase))) the critical mass occurs between ages 2 to 11 for most girls and 2 to 13 for most boys. This is when the brain will allow without resistance or question information being said by a Guardian (parent) to be taken as fact even if it is false. It gets stored in the brain engrams foundational safe area.

Once we hit the end of the age group, many parents think their kids are being rebellious, when they just don't realize the critical mass has closed off from recording engrams without resistance. This is what causes kids to start questioning and having doubts about their parent's statements more often. As we go through life, when we come across anything that causes resistance or challenges the accuracy of what is stored in the reserved foundational area of the brain that was closed off during the end of the age group (12?/13?- Girls & Boys) we resist as much as possible and even use irrational circular reasoning when not able to come up with a verifiable defense. It is this that caused our parents to believe without question in the religion they were exposed to and their parents etc. on and on. And sadly because many will say I feel it inside me etc. And that is how I know it is real. But no that is not how you know it is real because the same senses and feelings can be had with NLP, Hypnosis, and even sounds, and music can bring senses back of security and other things. The majority of Christians are ignorant of the real history of the bible they believe in. Many have never even taken the time to read its cover-to-cover or research its history. Just as these evil scriptures in the bible, they are also in other religions that long pre-date the bible. The Xmas Tree comes from the pagan faith.

More than 5 billion worldwide lack critical thinking skills at a level that lets them live within and touch reality.

Many go through life from stories indoctrinated into their minds as kids during the vulnerable brains critical mass being wide open with no resistance to recording foundational data input even when false. Having embedded data/stories taken from a period where the level of education was less than a grade three today & the #1 pastime being storytelling & making. Just like how campfire stories today come about.

It is these people that would be easier to fall into the belief of conspiracies & spin on fake stories about unproven election rigging, covid coverups, Denial of climate change, & the world around us.

There is Zero evidence for a GOD just man-made stories that are cherry-picked in an irrational manner of so-called circular reasoning to avoid providing evidence for the delusions. But many will use circular irrational excuses and claims to say otherwise. Like the bogus excuse, how do you explain what we see? The answer to that is I am not the one making a claim that I know the answer is a GOD which many seem to think they can attach to the question. Prove that God exists first before claiming something was made by it.


We put people in padded rooms for hearing voices & saying they see invisible people. But when people form a group & run with similar stories with zero evidence these (Groups) are afforded more rights than everyone else. Tax-free status etc.

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Scott,
Please read the Topic: Evidence for the existence of God.

Religion is simply the biggest scam in history. There was a time, long ago, when there was no religion - cavemen had no Catholicism, no Islam, etc. All religions at some point in time were created by man for one reason or another. They are all equally false and invalid, as they are all simply a set of rules and beliefs that someone made up. The major religions that exist today are seen as valid only because they have existed for so long and have millions of followers.

Reasonable atheists eventually become theists because they are reasonable; and furthermore, because they are honest. They are willing to follow the evidence wherever it leads; and in many cases the evidence comes to the atheist most coherently and well-presented through the writings of believers in God.
Author Karen Edmisten admits on her blog:
“I once thought I’d be a lifelong atheist. Then I became desperately unhappy, read up on philosophy and various religions (while assiduously avoiding Christianity), and waited for something to make sense. I was initially appalled when Christianity began to look like the sensible thing, surprised when I wanted to be baptized, and stunned that I ended up a Catholic.”

Rightly said..

I’m not a religious person, but I can understand wanting a set of guidelines to pattern your life after. There are a lot of things about religion that bring people comfort.

Dr. Holly Ordway, author of Not God’s Type: An Atheist Academic Lays Down Her Arms, describes the consequences of reading great, intelligent Christian writers:
“I found that my favorite authors were men and women of deep Christian faith. C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien above all; and then the poets: Gerard Manley Hopkins, George Herbert, John Donne, and others. Their work was unsettling to my atheist convictions…”
Dr. Ordway mentions the eminent 20th century Oxford thinker, C.S. Lewis. Lewis is a prime example of a reasonable but unbelieving thinker who was willing to read from all angles and perspectives. As a result of his open inquiry, he became a believer in Christ and one of modern Christianity’s greatest apologists.

G.K. Chesterton and George MacDonald were two of the most influential writers to effect Lewis’ conversion. He writes in his autobiography, Surprised By Joy:
“In reading Chesterton, as in reading MacDonald, I did not know what I was letting myself in for… A young man who wishes to remain a sound Atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.”
Author Dale Ahlquist writes matter-of-factly that “C.S. Lewis was an atheist until he read Chesterton’s book, The Everlasting Man, but he wasn’t afterwards…”
Ironically, it was C.S. Lewis’ influential defenses of Christianity that would eventually prompt countless conversions to Christianity—and his influence continues today unhindered. Among the Lewis-led converts from atheism is former feminist and professor of philosophy, Lorraine Murray, who recalls:
“In college I turned my back on Catholicism, my childhood faith, and became a radical, gender-bending feminist and a passionate atheist …. Reading Lewis, I found something that I must have been quietly hungering for all along, which was a reasoned approach to my childhood beliefs, which had centered almost entirely on emotion. As I turned the pages of this book, I could no longer ignore the Truth, nor turn my back on the Way and the Life. Little by little, and inch by inch, I found my way back to Jesus Christ and returned to the Catholic Church.”

One former atheist who was profoundly affected by prayer and the Scriptures is author Devin Rose. On his blog, he describes the role that God’s Word played in his gradual conversion process from atheism to Christianity:
“I began praying, saying, “God, you know I do not believe in you, but I am in trouble and need help. If you are real, help me.” I started reading the Bible to learn about what Christianity said…”
Once Rose began to read the Scriptures and talk to God, even as a skeptic, he found himself overwhelmed by something very real:
“Still, I persevered. I kept reading the Bible, asking my roommate questions about what I was reading, and praying. Then, slowly, and amazingly, my faith grew and it eventually threatened to whelm my many doubts and unbelief.”

Similarly, renowned sci-fi author John C. Wright distinctly recalls a prayer he said as an adamant atheist:
“I prayed. ‘Dear God, I know… that you do not exist. Nonetheless, as a scholar, I am forced to entertain the hypothetical possibility that I am mistaken. So just in case I am mistaken, please reveal yourself to me in some fashion that will prove your case. If you do not answer, I can safely assume that either you do not care whether I believe in you, or that you have no power to produce evidence to persuade me…If you do not exist, this prayer is merely words in the air, and I lose nothing but a bit of my dignity. Thanking you in advance for your kind cooperation in this matter, John Wright.’”
Wright soon received the answer (and effect) he did not expect:
“Something from beyond the reach of time and space, more fundamental than reality, reached across the universe and broke into my soul and changed me…I was altered down to the root of my being…It was like falling in love.”
Wright was welcomed into the Catholic Church at Easter in 2008

God said in the Quran:
When the Event (the resurrection) comes, there is no denying its coming. You shall be divided into three parties. Companions of the Right, Companions of the Left, And the Outstrippers, those are they brought near (to their Lord) in the Gardens of Delight, a host of the ancients but only a few from the later generations. a recompense for all that they did.
The Companions of the Right (will be) among thornless trees, continuous shade, flowing water, an abundance of fruits, and chaste, loving companions of the same age for the Companions of the Right a multitude of the ancients, and a multitude of the later people.
As for the Companions of the Left (they shall live) amid burning winds and boiling water, in the shadow of a smoking blaze, neither cool nor good. Before they lived at ease, and persisted in the great sin and constantly said: 'What, when we are dead and become dust and bones, shall we then be restored to life? What, and our fathers, the ancients? '
Say [Muhammed]: 'Those of ancient times and those of later times shall be gathered together to the appointed time on a known Day. '
Then you went astray, you that belied, you shall eat (the fruit) of the Tree of Zakkum [in the Hell]. You shall fill your bellies with it, and drink boiling water on top of that, and you will drink as the lapping of thirsty camels.
Such shall be your hospitality on the Day of Recompense.
We created you, why will you not believe!
Have you thought about what (sperm) you ejaculate?
Did you create it, or are We the Creator?
It was We who decreed death among you. We will not be surpassed that We will change you and cause you to grow again in a way you do not know.
You have surely known of the first creation. Why then, will you not remember!
Have you thought about the water you drink?
Is it you that send it down from the clouds or We?
If We will, We would make it bitter, why then do you not give thanks?
I swear by the fallings of the stars and that is a mighty oath, if you but knew it is indeed a Glorious Koran, in a Book protected (from tampering)
a sending down from the Lord of all the Worlds.
What, do you hold this discourse in disdain, do you make it your provision to belie it?
Why, then, when the soul leaps up to the throat of the dying and you are watching at that time We are nearer to him than you, but you do not see, why then, if you are not revived, do you not restore his soul, if you are truthful?
If he is among the near, there shall be calmness and ease, a Garden of Delight.
If he is a Companion of the Right, (he will be greeted with): 'Peace be upon you, Companion of the Right! '
But, if he is of those who belied, and went astray, there shall be a hospitality of boiling water, and a roasting in Hell.
Indeed, this is the certain truth.

TxsGal3333 says "Just because you feel that way does not mean others do..

If Religion is not for you then by pass it and let those that do believe in Religion, share their beliefs as they see fit..

Sounds like to me you are trying to manipulate people into believing as you do".

I'm one of the "others" that feel that way. Religion is a scam designed to separate the gullible from their money in the forms of tithes and offerings

There is no scientific evidence that there is no creator of the universe. There is strong evidence for the existence of God, the Creator of the universe and what is in it.
Some thinkers make use of church’s mistakes, so they attacked religion and rejected it altogether. They wrote books that convinced some people of their ideas. Many governments helped spread atheism and anti-religious books. For example: Lee Simon (Author) of ‘Organized Religion: The Greatest Scam of All Paperback – November 28, 2017’
This little book is for those who believe and for those who no longer believe. It is an argument against organized religion. It is written in easy to read, easy to understand English. It is, if I may say so, an eraser for the mind. This is not an academic treatment. It is thoughts of the author, who has been thinking about these things for over 50 years. If nothing else this book will challenge your thinking if you are a believer; it will support your thinking if you are not.
Black Hero (Author) wrote ‘Religion: A Blessing Or A Scam? Paperback – Large Print, October 31, 2020.

Your position shows a lack of knowledge of what religion actually IS. No-one can be manipulated if they don't want to be. Saying that religion manipulates is silly. However, there are people who call themselves religious that do all sorts of things - they are not religious.

Religious leaders are servants of the people, which is why in many religions, and denominations of Christianity they wear servant robes. Again, some people take advantage of others, but true religion actually does not allow this.

My denomination (of Christianity) relies hugely on "Reason." If it doesn't make sense it is likely wrong.

And, the seminary I went to was full of exceedingly intelligent people! Saying it is for the ignorant (as some here have done) is incorrect for sure.

America encourages atheism
Amira Acer, an Algerian writer, wrote the following:
The Joseph Biden administration is working to spread atheism in Muslim societies. Washington supports all immoral practices such as the right to abortion, an act that was rejected by the Federal Supreme Court and considered a crime punishable by American law. The American government aims to detach the conservative American people, for the most part, from their history, values, and Protestant religious beliefs that prohibit abortion.
It also works to secularize religious Islamic societies by spreading atheism, which means denying the existence of the Creator absolutely, and resorting instead to the human mind, which is limited in understanding natural and cosmic phenomena. Based on the ideas of Richard Dawking and his physical theories, or Darwin's theories of evolutionary natural selection, or the existential ideas of Jules Paul Sartre, or the secularist David Silverman, who served as president of the International Federation of Atheists and is known for his constant attack and ridicule of the beliefs and religious rituals of believers, especially Christians and Muslims. , which is considered one of the pillars of the American project to spread atheism in the Middle East, North Africa, Central and South Asia, a project that is sponsored and supervised by the US State Department, as mentioned in the report of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), where it indicated that the US State Department provides direct financial grants to encourage atheistic movements in Muslim-majority regions of Asia and the Middle East, where, according to the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (PDL), funds are used to create and strengthen networks of advocates for diverse communities, atheists, and the unaffiliated from all religious denominations in target countries.
The United States of America, which claims to be the custodian of democracy, human rights, and cultural, linguistic, ethnic, religious, and ideological diversity, and that it respects the beliefs and beliefs of others, is violating the provisions and covenants of the US Constitution, which expressly stipulates freedom of belief and the illegality of the federal government’s interference in the beliefs and ideas of others unless they pose a threat. On American national security, Washington, through its support for atheism in the Islamic world and its provision of financial grants to organizations, bodies and associations that support the policy of atheism and work to spread it in their local communities, as it works to provide humanitarian asylum for all atheists in Muslim countries, on the condition that they commit to using the media And social media to spread and promote atheism from within the American lands, because the Biden administration, which failed to strike at the pillars of the Islamic religion by supporting the idea of the Abrahamic religion, which was one of the outputs of the normalization process with a number of Arab countries, is trying this time to eliminate the most important constants of the peoples of the region. By striking religion, which is considered the main driver of all resistance movements that had a prominent role in Afsh All Zionist, colonial and expansionist plans in the Middle East, by controlling the peoples of those countries and plundering their wealth.
The USA, which was forced to withdraw from Afghanistan under the blows of the Afghan resistance, and abandoned it in favor of the Taliban movement, is implementing a strategy developed in the nineties of the last century based on the ideas of Bernard Lewis, Henry Kissinger and Brzezinski. Their religion and beliefs, because all the countries of the Western system are well aware that the peoples of the Middle East region in particular, which are rich in enormous natural and underground wealth, and occupy an important geographical space from a geostrategic point of view, are religious people by instinct and adhere to their religious identity and their civilizational and cultural heritage, and they cannot control them. And subduing it completely, except by hitting the religious values in the region.

Who is behind atheism?
There are global institutions that sponsor atheism and atheists, for example ATHEIST ALLIANCE INTERNATIONAL, the Association of Atheists, the Richard Dawkins Foundation for the Support of Reason and Science, the International Union for Humanitarian and Ethical Direction, the International Association of Non-Religious and Atheists. Some of them give large financial aid to the organizer, amounting to 350 dollars per month in some poor countries.
Atheists explain their visions to philosophical reasons stemming from the scientific conclusion, and some of them reject the existence of God and consider it just a myth that people needed in the past as a result of their ignorance of the causes of natural phenomena. They believe that there is no evidence of God. Some atheists believe that the attribute of absolute justice of God conflicts with the existence of evil in the world. And the idea of Satan in religious texts.
God commanded people to believe
God created the human soul and taught it to distinguish between good and evil. Just as God sent His messengers to bring good tidings and warnings, and He did not take people by force, and God explained the good deeds and the bad ones, so every person who intended to do a good deed but did not do it, God writes it down for him as a complete good deed, and if he does it, God writes it down for him as ten good deeds, and whoever wants to do a bad deed and does not do it, God writes it down for him as a complete good deed. If he did it, God wrote it down for him as one bad deed.
All heavenly messages are consistent with Islam, in purpose and principles, and urge people to do good and avoid doing evil, but people have distorted the religion, so every prophet sent to the followers of the previous messages explained there is a similar distortion.
God said;
By the sun and its midmorning, by the soul and Who shaped it and inspired it with its sin and its piety, prosperous is he who purified it, and failed is he who buried it!

religion is no scam, its just a lot of people do not understand how to teach, they serve someone else.

Mathew 24 11 And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.

How many times a year, Iran: President Says Israel Should Be 'Wiped Off Map.

is that religion, who are they serving good or evil.