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CMV: Organized religion, by nature, is flawed and therefore should hold no merit.

Edit1: I’m putting this at the top to prevent future arguments about semantics. Merit was a poor choice of words on my end. I just meant to say that the amount of authority that religions hold in peoples social and sometimes political lives is ridiculous. So instead of merit, maybe authority is a better word. 

I’m not saying this as a dipshit atheist who just wants to shit on religion. I’m saying this as somebody who grew up catholic, went to a Christian school my entire life, went to a Christian college and found so many inconsistencies that I’m not really sure what to call myself. For lack of a better term I call myself a Christian agnostic; I’m not sure if god exists, but if they do, I’m pretty sure it’s the Christian god because that’s the one that makes the most sense to me (I grew up that way, plus there aren’t that many crazy rules in Christianity like don’t eat pork, or women should be seen but not heard). But that’s the thing, I just simply don’t know. 

Either way, here’s my reasoning against organized religion. It’s all based off of human nature. Regardless of divine inspiration, the Bible, Torah, Koran or any other religious text was written by a human. Therefore that human could have/ did in many cases, set a particular group of people up to succeed better than others. Christianity, by virtue of starting out based in Catholicism, has been proven time and time again to be corrupted by the church. Some level or another in church leaders from every major organized religion is present and has been documented. 

So my big issue is when people say “my church does this because we’re supposed to” and my response is “according to who” and they tell me their pastor’s name or they say the Pope/ Imam/ Rabi and I question “who told them that” they say “God” which always leaves me with an unsatisfied feeling. So you mean to tell me that “god” told your pastor to tell you this? If god is all powerful why didn’t they just tell you? Why does god rely on humans to spread his message knowing full well that humans are corruptible and are more prone to serve their own needs than the needs of a church? 

So here’s my view, change it. Organized religions are corrupted by human nature, therefore they shouldn’t be taken seriously.
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\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_, by nature, is flawed and therefore should hold no merit.

Fill in the blank: human beings, government, education, philosophy, democracy, love, art, etc.

Everything has flaws.  To say something with flaws has no merit leads to the conclusion that nothing has merit.