Religion and society

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For centuries, religions have directed our lives and even controlled our thoughts; they have been close to power for years, and in the name of God, people who directed it got rich and powerful. Firstly, let's get back to Middle Ages. At this time, religions were widespread, everyone feared the power of the church. It was mainly because people believed that the head of the church could ban them from access to heaven, so they obeyed him. Nowadays, things have changed but religions are still harmful to our society; they remain divisive, intolerant and oppressive as well as control the mind.

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[...] a conclusion . We won't challenge someone faith in existence of God, but according to history religions have sometimes has misinterpreted their own message and the central function of the religion has been set aside. As a conclusion, even if it is true that through time religions have been credited for improvements in society but in modern days and because religions are so rigid and have a resistance to sciences and philosophy, they are turning to be dangerous for the harmonious development of human society. [...]

[...] The consequences were so cruel that the work of Copernicus was only published after his death in order to avoid persecutions. It shows once again the destruction and waste cause by religion, so many lives were murder and many scientist theories haven't been published. . danger that religion control represents . Moreover, the power of control which religion provides to someone, allows his to doubt of scientist breakthroughs. In occurrence, a lot of Americans don't acknowledge as true the Darwin theory about evolution which they consider as an evil, that is inspires “atheism and amorality”. [...]

[...] Indeed religions divide people and isolate them culturally from each other. Religion created idea are then later, used by religious people to create unrest and finally turned into power tools to serve their own ambitions. The will to spread the word of God or it prophets for the only purpose of dominating the society, clearly shows a will to oppose people and certainly not to bring them under a common idea of human consciousness. This attitude that we could think of dating from the middle age is unfortunately still very much up to date. [...]

[...] had to undergo the consequences . During history religions have showed it parts. There have been many war in our history, each time for the people who directed it, the reasons were acceptable. The major part of wars can be classified in three domains: for a will of domination, for resources or for religious reasons. Studying the religious reasons, we can get back in time very long ago but will we expose fact happen during middle Ages, were crusades started. [...]

[...] From this point we can clearly understand that people from different religion can't really respect each other if the codes of behavior differ and cannot either live peacefully together in a civil society organized on a democratic model. . Do not tolerate each other . In addition, religions contempt and do not tolerate each other. In society with mixed religions, minorities have always been offended. People couldn't express they own religion in public in order to avoid persecutions. This intolerance in not new, we can find this type of behaving in the beginning of history, where Christians were persecuted by Romains. [...]