At the individual level, believers cannot perceive the negative aspects of religion. It is the syndrome of the lobster when it is cooked alive. One places it in cold water and raises gradually temperature until boil. The lobster is numb, then dies and is cooked without realizing it. This may be called conditioning. Only those who are "unconverted" are able to feel, a posteriori, the harmful character of religions for individual: stifling, alienation, submissiveness, resignation, intellectual lethargy...
At the collective level, there is only to look at around oneself and in books of history: wars of religion, inquisition, fanaticism, intolerance, misogyny, check to progress, confiscation of the political power...
Monotheism, by its conception of a single god, carries the germ of intolerance. "The good God (i.e. the true one), it is mine". All is said.
As in the market economy, the worst is the monopoly of religion.
With that, may be added other characteristics, specific to each religion, that nothing do but increase its dangerousness:
- the chosen race on a reserved country (Judaism);
- universality (Christianity) that leads to evangelize those who does not require anything;
- religious States (Islam).
At the collective level, there is only to look at around oneself and in books of history: wars of religion, inquisition, fanaticism, intolerance, misogyny, check to progress, confiscation of the political power...
Monotheism, by its conception of a single god, carries the germ of intolerance. "The good God (i.e. the true one), it is mine". All is said.
As in the market economy, the worst is the monopoly of religion.
With that, may be added other characteristics, specific to each religion, that nothing do but increase its dangerousness:
- the chosen race on a reserved country (Judaism);
- universality (Christianity) that leads to evangelize those who does not require anything;
- religious States (Islam).
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