a set
of values, beliefs, and structure in a person's life in
order to give them direction and a sense
of right and wrong is fine, but organized religions are no more than large corporations, and like any large corporation are only focused on their bottom line... trying to control the public and extract as much money as they can from them by any means necessary... promoting
fear, uncertainty, hate and a sense that they alone can offer salvation... for a price (although they are very cleaver about getting to this hidden and unspoken
cost... after all these hundreds
of years they have perfected their craft well!)