Reply #110: Religion is belief and faith. It originates from ignorance, to explain the unknown and to

[L. Coyote]

overcome fear of the unknown and inevitable, like personal death.

Religion is often a form of denial of reality and those aspects of the known that are feared, such as death supplanted by after-life ideation.

Religious belief is a state of delusion, both self delusion and group delusion, an irrational state of mental disordering and imagining.

Religion is a form of counter-reality, often disabling with regard to dealing with reality.

Let us face facts, religion is irrationality and a harmful aspect of American society, especially with regards to political control and political manipulation.