Religion’s Dirty Dozen—12 Really Bad Religious Ideas That Have Made the World Worse

[Warren Stupidity]

11. I'm open to the idea that the concept of god is not in itself a bad idea.

But it really depends on what you mean by "gods", and getting the god-smacked to actually explain what they mean is generally very difficult. A pantheist view of god as the whole of experience and existence seems to be workable.

So for the most part I agree. When people say they "believe in god" they seem to instead mean that they have subscribed to bunch of whooey and bull-plucky that is ridiculous at best and frequently is an authoritarian paternalistic hate-ridden ideology.

There are reasonable people who think we need to combine rational thinking with transcendent experience - see e.g. Karl Jaspers and others, and they sort of have a point. But given the history of religion.....