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Religions are perpetrators of widespread societal fraud, hooking their members into believing a set of false dogma, while providing group acceptance, and expecting money from those members (aka tithes).  A difference from a typical scam is that all of the participants tend to be complete believers in the dogma which typically includes influencing the members to spread the dogma, and bring in more members.

That is sort of sick, it seems to me.

If that sort of fraud is part of the natural fabric of society (which it is), then more secular kinds of fraud (things like lying about the addictiveness of cigarettes, or opiates, in order to exploit customers, scams of all kinds, against the vulnerable in society, political lies to gain and keep power)  must seem more acceptable, in comparison, than they might otherwise.

Our society is conditioned by the mass lies of religion, to be more prone to believe other mass lies.

Recognizing this, is a pretty good reason, I think, to speak out. I don’t want my fellow humans to be controlled by liars.