Religion - a Twisted Concept

Religion according to me is like a drug, a highly potent and noxious drug. This drug, I feel, has more addiction coefficent than cocaine and causes much more harm than meth. For it not only makes you less logical and reasonable but it also makes you a lot hungry. Though I can't exactly pinpoint the cause of this hunger. What makes this concept of religion all the more illogical isn't its ideologies but it is its number.

For when it comes to religion, one may find numerous religions with countless deities though all of them preach the same basic concept. My parents feel Hinduism is the shit whereas some people say Christianity is the shit, some say Islam is the shit and so on. But I personally feel, they all are full of shit. They all try to convince the innocent, ignorant and scared people about the presence of an omnipotent, omnipresent yet unseen higher power - A force which has never been felt, which hasn't done any physical work. But this force does exert tremendous amount of pressure!

The point which makes this concept all the more pointless is the approach of these religions towards life. They all try to convince their followers to 'be good'. But ironically, for convincing them to 'be good' they try to scare them about the pains in the so-called 'afterlife', about hell, about the devil (though all religions have their own forms of satan or devil or whatever). Isn't this illogical? For should religion work on fear? This isn't ridiculous not just because the fear but more importantly, because of the fact that these religions make the people's belief in Satan overpower those for the so-called God.

The funny point about all this fuss is, that billions of people are affected by this. For they, with extra zeal, worship their God(s) - someone, who is never been seen, never been felt and nor is ever been proved. Sadly or funnily (as you'd like to take it), these zealots when questioned about the god's existence, claim that though you can't prove the presence of god but you can't even prove its absence. So he must be there. But they never use such analogies for things like, say aliens, or a unicorn.

But all doesn't mean that I want to lead the planet into atheism. All I want to say is that people shouldn't blindly follow their gurus or their priests or whatever. They should logically think about every theory which they're expected to approve and then with extra caution, they should make their choices. For at end of the life, it isn't about the 'be good' question as afterlife is doubtful but it is about the choices made in the life for you live only once and Life's Short... For real.