Religion is one of the social constructs (along with patriarchy, white supremacy, capitalism, conservative politics, and more) that coerce and force the submission to authority. It is a pyramid scheme whereby power flows upward, forever disempowering those below, forever demanding that they recruit more else the ponzi scheme collapses.
Judaism is the worship of a tyrant god.
"The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully." - Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion
Christianity is the Roman Empire's corruption of gnostic mysticism's worship of a mythic sun-god who rebelled against that tyrant and his empire. (This myth has been played out many times throughout history in many cultures).
Islam is the excessively strict over-reaction against the oppressive Christendom Empire.
Jews do not need Judaism. Anglo-Saxons and Latinx do not need Christianity. North Africans, Arabs, Persians, and Indonesians do not need Islam. Imagine no religion, too.
This is obviously an over-simplification. But it reminds me of someone who is sent to prison and must align with a gang to protect themselves from all the other gangs. Instead, abolish the gangs. Better yet, abolish the prisons.
Most people do not need religion. Most people do not need prison, spiritual (ie, religion) or otherwise. Humane, secluded accommodations can be made for those who are unable to live empathetically and compassionately without fundamental rules and control. Those people are usually called psychopaths.
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