I don't deny that relgion, churches and the faithful have done and continue to do many great things around the world.
Many also do, in the name of the faith, bad things. No one, even the most blinkered, can deny it.
A bad person is a bad person religous or not. Religion gives bad people justification.
'Many of greatest thinkers, leaders, scientists and philosophers in history have believed in a God'
This, like God, can never be proven or disproven. In many cases it's quite likely that those claiming faith actually only did it so they would get their funding and wouldn't be ostracized. It has been claimed that Einstein was relgious but this is demonstrably not true. Some of his comments have simply been taken out of context.
Even if it were true, so what? It proves nothing.
I have no wish to mock and fully respect peoples rights to believe whatever they want to believe. I wish I could believe in something so strongly.
My problem with relgion is that there are so many unanswered and unanswerable questions that I just cannot understand how any rational, right thinking adult could possbily believe any of it.
No-one above the age of 10 believes in Santa yet were supposed to believe in an omnipotent omniscient super being who exists outside of space and time.
Please, someone convince me I'm wrong.