Religions have dozens of ways to make you feel bad about your choices and the choices of others. Fictional sins based on nothing are a common way of doing that. “You sinned, so you must want punishment/suffering”. Even when this sin is stupid and arbitrary. Ableism is another big one with religion: “They’re disabled because my god wants them to suffer, so I’ll contribute to their suffering - like my god wants me to”.
“Dwelling on it”. Yeah, people hold grudges against bad people that hurt them. Religions teaches that you should forgive everyone, especially the pirest that raped your child, stole your money, or started a holy war and sent you off instead of them. Dwell on that stuff. Make it right. Don’t just forget about it and pretend like someone in a fictional afterlife will take care of it, because fictional gods don’t do that.
If you choose religion, you are choosing suffering. If you choose a system of lies and fiction over reality, you’re going to get lies and fiction instead of reality. That will cause you suffering in many different ways.
Well, that’s all complete bullshit.
Before religions, all humans made individual choices. During religion, all humans made individual choices. Even now, people still make individual choices. Your fictional religion just ignores reality and pretends everything is always religion, and it’s never been any other way. Just lies.
Yeah, freedom, education,a nd choice really does fuck up religion’s absolute control, indoctrination, and forced activies. Fuck religion, and fuck you.