True religions… Throughout human history countless people have given their own lives, taken those of others in the most horrible ways and committed terrible atrocities in the absolute certainty their religion was the only right and true one. The losses and human misery caused by this, and other lesser ways in which people have sacrificed for their gods (to include the slaughter of their own children), are truly incalculable.
While this clearly shows human failings, it also shows divine failing IF any religion was created by a god. Surely a being with the power to create the universe could leave extraordinary evidence to prove a religion was also his creation and stop misguided people from killing in his name. However, this god has no qualms about letting the most horrible atrocities being committed, often by people who are very sincere in their beliefs and devotion to this god, even though he could easily stop them by simply taking a second to make things absolutely clear.
To believe in divine power is one thing. However, claiming to know exactly what that divine power wants is quite another. Nobody has ever offered any solid evidence a god or gods exist let alone anything close to absolute proof they talked to him. Considering this, no human being should ever have the nerve to go way beyond that and claim to know with 100% certainty what any god wants.
Religion is not necessarily what makes people commit horrible atrocities for their gods to this very day. The danger comes from teaching and believing that any ideology is certainly divine word. Unless we receive some kind of solid divine proof, and we have nothing close to that, we have to assume that all these ideologies come from human minds that we know are prone to error.
The objective of this site is not to destroy religion or peoples’ belief in gods. There is no telling with absolute certainty what might be out there. The objective is to remove certainty from religion. Respecting and following religious teachings is not necessary bad as long as people do not forget the fact that all these teachings come from human minds just like there own.
By looking at religious teachings objectively, it is easy to see they are not perfect and have obvious human origins. For those who really care about how true their religion is, please read on with an open, critical mind. While you may find flaws in some of the information on this site, those flaws will certainly pale in comparison to the flaws we see in the religions of the world today. The fact that no god intervenes when people kill in his name or gives solid evidence that any religion is divine word is only one of the many pieces of evidence showing that human beings have not found divine truth in religion yet.
For those who are not going to read the site, please at least keep this in mind: extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Religions do make some pretty extraordinary claims. Before basing one’s life and possibly death on these claims, try to give those claims at least a fraction of the skepticism given to far smaller claims encountered in life.
Their may be a god or gods out there, but even if there are, there is no reason to believe they favor any one religion. What we see in the world today tells us just the opposite.
