Is the most harmful religion also the most authentic religion?

[Brettongarcia]

25. Likely ALL religions are harmful; even the "good" or "authentic" or inauthenitic ones

1) Religion is essentially taking things on "faith," without evidence; a bad habit. This makes one gullible.

2) The word "religion," Plato correctly said (over and above modern objections), comes from something like "re-legere"; meaning to tell the same stories over and over. Thus religion is obsessive-compulsive. And inflexible.

So essentially ALL religion tends to make you gullible - and inflexibly, obsessively attached to whatever impossible things you are told.

3) Most religions have lots of violence in their history.

4) Next we are told that surely there must be "good" religious leaders; like the peaceful Jesus say. But there was violence hidden under even Jesus. Jesus claimed to be linked to the violent Old Testament god. And at times Jesus threatened violence himself; flogging the moneychangers out of the temple; telling us also that he had "not come to give peace, but the sword." Turning brother against brother. While looking forward to a violent End Times.

5) Even religion that appears to successfully be "peaceful" and "spiritual" still has problems. The apostle James noted that a religion that gives us only spirituality, but not the physical material things we need to live, is a literally physically fatal religion (James 2.14-26).

So in conclusion? There are no good religions at all. As would seem to many of us.

[The always slyly apologetic Sirveaux is once again playing semantic/logical apologetics games here. In this case, he is apparently accusing critics of religion in effect, of ignoring “good” or peaceful religion, calling it “inauthentic” or not real religion, in effect. While concentrating only on obviously bad religions, as if they were the definition of (authentic) religion. But? We also criticize “Good” liberal, spiritual, "peaceful" religion here too. Regarding it too as an authentic subject for criticism]