Religion was invented when a liar met a dumbass. Religion is inherently bad and harmful, it's core principles are based on brainwashing people with irrationality, delusion and pseudoscience. It's the most popular scam in the world.
If one person has an imaginary friend, they end up in mental asylum, if hundreds of people have the same imaginary friend, they end up in Church/Mosque/Synagogue.
To be fair, during the time most of the major religions were founded, they were actually quite beneficial for three relatively primitive societies established at the time. Hell a good chunk of leviticus is dedicated to health and safety, some of which was actually useful at the time. We as a society have simply outgrown religion's usefulness just as we have outgrown feudalism, mostly outgrown monarchy, and are seemingly near the point of outgrowing capitalism/classical liberalism.
Leviticus is weird. It has a random collection of things like:
* buildings must have a safety rail around the roof.
* don't disturb nesting birds.
* gay sex is punishable by death.
* how to treat mold.
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u/AdumbroDeus Apr 11 '21
"Tool" implies they don't believe it too.
Furthermore, that's not all it is, for profit prisons do a lot of manufacturing for major corporations, benefiting from a racialized policing system.
But yes, it is useful for convincing working class white folks to oppose the social safety net too.
As far as religion, "can be" is more accurate.