Do people hate the actual belief in God, or just the religious organizations?

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Stupidity. It always comes with any religious territory. Religion needs stupid people in order to survive, which is why it actively promotes ignorance and false models of reality. Maybe if religions and/or gods stopped choosing the most demented of morons as their spokesmen - people would have fewer problems with the whole thing. Of course - that's not going to happen, because smart people know, that religions are bullsh*t and that there is no reason to believe in any gods.

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at least your honest.

I'm also right.

unfortunately the most clever people are evil.

Are they? Do you have any evidence to back this bold assertion? Or is it just that intellectually impaired people instinctively fear those, who are smarter? It's an illusion, created from insecurity and lack of self-worth, and fed by media, like Hollywood movies, which nearly always portray villains as smart people, and heroes as dip-sh*t jocks.

If I recall correctly, pretty much everything of note, that humanity achieved, involved clever people, from the invention of a wheel, to the cure for polio and GMO crops, that saved billions of people in the 3rd World from starvation. Most of us wouldn't be here if it wasn't for clever people, who provided medicine, technology and all sorts of other conveniences, which even dumb people can now enjoy and use to create more dumb people.

It's just that simple people, insecure, self-centered and ungrateful, can't bear to be in debt to smarter ones - they'd rather invent magical sky-daddies, at whom they can direct their thanks. And they'll happily follow an obvious fraud, demagogue and/or a sleaze-bag, as long as he talks and acts like a bumbling fool.

i think religion is 99%-100% a sham to control people and now that it isnt needed anymore it is being weeded out like rap music.

Of course it is, except that stupid people gave all sorts of powers to churches over the millenia and now it's pretty difficult to "weed them out".

And for the record - there's nothing wrong with rap music, at least in concept. Many rappers are morons and so are their fans, true - but at least they don't get tax-exempt status, or a say in running governments.

 people are well controlled enough as it is, and what better way to reinforce that control than to add another distraction of separation.

we've always had whites vs blacks and religion vs religion. now we got gays vs straights, transvestites vs, everyone, and not only religion vs religion, but religion vs non-religion.

LOL... We ALWAYS had religion vs "non-religion". Religions are based on bullsh*t and therefore have to be very aggressive against competing world-views, especially those, which are based in reality.

a shame really. how can we hope for peace when we cant even calm our tits about these issues?

How can we have world peace, when most of humanity appears to believe, that the best part of life comes after you're dead? And that there are invisible wizards, who demand blind, unquestionable obedience, regardless of circumstances?

ultimately, god is just a symbol until proven otherwise. a powerful symbol at that. and as with all symbols, they can be used for good, or for evil.

God is a symbol, but it's obviously designed to suit simple and ignorant minds. Which is why it's heavily restricted in terms of its potential use "for good". You can't use gods to solve technical, or scientific problems. You can't use it to cure disease, or feed the starving. The symbol of god is usually used to massage people's egos, confirm their preconceived notions and indulge their basic instincts. That's neither good, nor bad, per se - just convenient for those, who want to feel like they know everything, without putting much effort. 

And at the end of the day - god is always a lie, even if used with good intentions. And when that lie is inevitably unmasked, it usually makes any situation worse.