About Religion

[freshnesschronic]

What do you guys think? Some w rldly questions.
NOTE: I use religion as a noun to include all religions, because this is what I think I have found they have in common.

I am an agnostic Christian thinking of turning to aetheism because of some things I have personally philosophized about, and my indifference toward "God's Plan" which to me seems like not a good plan at all. I am NOT trying to anger anyone, just to hear people's different opinions on all my thoughts. And YES I do have many morals, but one doesn't have to be religious to be moral!

Wasn't religion created, just to organize and control people? To provide hands down answers to curious, rebellious unorganized people in order for them to submit to a king/priest/chieftan.

Doesn't the advancement of science disprove religion's original ideas of why the world is the way it is? I mean, there is scientific evidence proving the existence of life billions of years before religion says time started.

YES. Religion was and is important to human culture, civilization and advancement. But since we've evolved so much, isn't the gradual clarity of science and experimentational evidence fogging up religion's mysterious "just have this faith or whatever and things will be ok...even if things aren't really ok" attitude?

Isn't religion's creationist feeling kind of, ridiculous? Yes, no one knows or possibly will ever know through science where life started or how. But through sciences such as microbiology and astronomy we found the same microscopic bacterial life on earth that exists on extra terrestrial rocks in the voids of space. Isn't it silly to think that some being(s) that have been ever present started life because he/she/they felt like it? And for what reason again?

And hasn't human history showed us, that no empire lasts forever. And no religion will last forever either (anybody a Greek mythology convert? Or Ancient Egyptian mythology anyone?). So doesn't this show religion is, harshly put, another human fad that changes with the times?

Just some thoughts! Please don't hate me! I feel I am a very diverse young man and very tolerant of other people, but these are my personal ideas! That's all!