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CMV: Abrahamic Religions are generally evil

Most of the time I can't stop myself from feeling/believing that, even though I strongly want to believe otherwise.

I strongly believe in mankind and I believe that people are generally good. I also believe that ideas by themselves can't be evil. It's what we do with them and how we take them, is what makes them good or not.

On the other hand, I keep seeing lots of wrongdoings being done under the name of those religions, in history and modern life. So what I see keeps contradicting with what I would like to believe in.

Most of the time I would even argue with my friends that religion in itself is not the reason those people are doing those "evil" things. It's what the people themselves are like that makes them act that way. That they would have done the same if they were following any other ideology. Yet again, why do those religions happen to be the ideology used the most in those cases?

I can understand that those religions had a social rule in the past and might have been useful at some point. But what good do they bring now to any society?

I have to stress that I am not saying that the "followers of those religions are evil". Many people can manage to have their own faith without causing any harm to others or limit their freedom and I definitely respect that.

I come from a Muslim family but I self identify as Agnostic. I was raised and lived most of my life in the middle east and currently live in North America.
gpt
> Yet again, why do those religions happen to be the ideology used the most in those cases?

This requires just two points:

1. Most (or at least close to half) of the world belongs to an Abrahamic religion.  
2. People generally feel the need to justify how their actions match their religion, and people are *really good* at justifying basically anything.

Most of the evil actions in the world get tied to Abrahamic religions simply because most of the *actions* in the world get tied to Abrahamic religions. The connections between Abrahamic religions and evil actions is more noticed because it is more surprising (and therefore news-worthy) than, for example, a group of Nuns helping the homeless.