Ok I’m going to give my closing thoughts on the matter before departing from this thread.

In the 3 years I’ve been here I have purposefully not shown my disdain for religion because I knew something like this would happen no matter how I laid it out there. All I really have to say is that there is no evidence for a God of any kind and there is no evidence to the contrary. Given how efficient Science is at building the repository of data we have about our universe I am confident in the fact that there is more than likely no God. If you agree good for you; if you disagree good for you as well. As for Religion itself I believe that it was at once a necessary evil but like many archaic thought patterns it should be done away with. There is no empirical evidence for any events occurring in any religions and a lot of them copy each other so that exacerbates that issue quite a bit. In addition to this a decent percentage of certain teachings in Religious texts are morally reprehensible. They may have been acceptable way back when but we live in a different world now. Religion does help people through troubling times but there are multiple sources that have similar messages for those going through hardships and with none of the perversion of reality or history. I could keep going on but I think anyone reading this get’s the point.