Religion Offers Me Nothing I Need

As an Stoic and Atheist, and believer in the powers of reason and truth, there is nothing that religion can give me that I need, and as I see it, only offers falseness and a lack of reason.

I can read science to discover the truth of how and why certain things happen — between them, science and Nature between them explain it all, if I care to study the reasons why, for everything.

From the study of the human condition, in societal or medical terms, and everything in between, to the study of the atoms, to the study of space, and all in between and even beyond those parameters, the truth is there for those who will look.

Religion though, as far as I see it, offers false hope for those who are in need of help, and gives false blame to those who see beyond that false hope, and can offer truer and more useful and empowering assistance.

Teaching a person to better look after themselves in rational ways, spending their money wisely and not handing it to a religion that has its own beyond the knowledge of the believer and expectations of the ‘believer’, this seems to make more sense to me, as a non-religious Atheist with a Stoic mindset.

In my life, I have family and friends who love me, I have more than merely adequate food and shelter, and money to obtain what I need. God has not given me…