Faith. The extraordinary ability to accept something as a fact when your common sense tells you it can’t possibly be true.
Prayer. A verbal or mental offering to a never-seen supreme being in which there is absolutely no evidence of actual response or existence. Evidence of a prayer response is an audio recording, not that it finally rained.
Life after death? When you are dead, you are dead. You have stopped. You are not going to meet mommy and daddy again, either.
Religion has caused more suffering and harm than all the world’s diseases combined. Think Crusades — that is still going on today. Think Iraq and several differing views leading to violent deaths in the thousands. Think Israel vs. Palestinian/Hamas/Iran/Syria/Boko Haram and their victims. The Catholic Inquisition led to burning witches at the stake, led to the birth of Protestantism, led to the United States, which led to “In God We Trust” on our money, which led to Hobby Lobby, which now uses less of it.
