Religion does more harm than good?

To dig this further, we should go back to the birth of religion. Religion is man made and it teaches about the way of life. Religion was created when people did not even know where the sun goes in the evening. They needed a belief system that answers their basic questions. In short 'religion is for people who needs it', there are people who needs some hope in life. Someone in jail or someone in death bed need something to believe in.

It is more like hand rails on a staircase. Its important that everyone has them but don't use them.

Will getting rid of all religions solves all the problem?
No, it will create more chaos. Now atleast people try to follow their belief system, problem comes only when one belief steps on another. Without a system to believe in, everyone will do what they think is right. Only solution is to educate more people about the values of religion.

God - what gives

1. Believers - Those who believe everything that happens is because of god, they generally don't believe in freewill.
2. Atheists - People who don't believe in the existence of god. Their main argument is that God's existence cannot be proved.
3. Agnostics - Those who can't decide either way. They try to stay out of such thinking.
4. Deists - Those who believe god created the universe and the rest is upto the mankind. This was Spinoza's theory. They usually believe in freewill. Their argument is atheists are wrong because god's inexistence cannot be proved the same way believers can't prove god's existence. Starting from the Universe to the smallest atom, everything seem to follow some pattern, law and some super power (god) must be responsible in creating them. Judaism sort of supports this philosophy since it acknowledges freewill. Hinduism also says human(jeevathma) can become god(paramathma) which means a complete freewill can be attained by man.