The longer we insist on not offending people by pointing out the blatant inconsistencies and impossible paradoxes of their "faith", the further down the sewer the species slides. Shoved on our way down by our own hands, too 'polite' to corect the objectively wong thinking that would suggest otherwise.
There are no gods. Not many, not one...just none. Unless you are a variety of pantheist, you too are already an atheist in all but one chosen flavor. There is virtually zero chance that any single religion is 'true' (at least as they are packaged and sold to the public) and a startlingly high probability that they are ALL false.
Religion was a foundational part of evolution for Homo Sapiens to develop and create society. It is literally right up their with language, recording (and recalling on media not orally) history, and opposable thumbs for dexterity over ferocity. Why we collectively participate in the propagation of ancient myths and rituals and outright fabrications still is one of the seeds of our eventual demise.
We can either choose to be honest and survive or polite and endangered and likely extinct eventually. 99% of ALL LIFEFORMS to EVER exist are extinct now. Homo Sapiens is the first that we know of that has evolved the ability to consider this and act to avoid the fate that awaits the rest - even Orcas, Dolphins and other primates can't come close to our collective ability to affect change - IF we pursue it and commit to the future of our existence for millenia instead of the compiling of junk for our temporary possession over a few decades.
Religion offers people the convenience of an external excuse - either for or against them and their desires or wishes. It is as if humanity invented an energ source to replace food that would allow you to either fast or feast without regard to consequences. If we eat too much or too little food in our physical reality that causes consequences; yet in our spirtual lives - we can freely consume copious amounts of mental poison and be socially rewarded for it with undue acceptance and even kudos.
Society was born from the ability to conceive things outside ourselves. Society will die if it fails to evolve beyond that first step.
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