What's your biggest beef with religion?

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Well put. It was difficult to pick a single one when I could probably fill a list of 20 or more. I wonder how long I could keep going in fact.

I'm now torn between my previous answer of indoctration, and divisiveness. Again though, I think the former is largely responsible for the latter. My even more general answer would simply be harm. If it didn't cause harm, I wouldn't be nearly as concerned about it.

I don't know about divisiveness, but the reason we find indoctrination a negative is because we find religion itself to be a negative.  The one is a consequence of the other.  We don't object to parents indoctrinating their children into not putting their hands on a hot stove or not playing in traffic.  We oppose indoctrination because of what it leads to.

Indeed.

I would propose some sort of litmus test. Is this something the child would figure out for themselves at a later age? Is there a good reason for them to accept it as fact right now, at a young age? (Is God giving out black marks that can't be removed even to young children who don't understand how to think properly yet? What an evil fuck.)

I don't know if "getting them young" is just part of a vicious cycle, or whether it's the result of a nagging doubt that they would never believe this stuff when they are older.