Religion is something as old as cave men, it wasn't as sophisticated but they still had beliefs. Today I will talk about wether religion is good or bad to humanity, taking into account human needs and the outcome of it.

I will begin saying that Im 100% sure that there is no god nor luck or any kind of things like that and I still belief in some of them.

The human being has two kinds of needs, physical (say food, water, you get me) and spiritual (knowledge sometimes, religion, etc).

The human needs to believe in something, it just needs to, without a belief he would be pointless, since those beliefs forge the morale of each one and define who we want to be.

Religions, like Catholicism, satisfy the need for a belief, they provide something in which to believe, giving certain morale to the human who beliefs in it, thus, a target in life: be as good as the god says to go to heaven.

It's those things what moves us in life, for some people, being as good as how god says you have to be is the only way to achieve happiness, because then they will feel happy with themselves for doing what they have done.

It's not all pink though, for the reasons mentioned before is why believers sometimes are agaisnt other groups of people like the LGTBQ comunity, they belief firmly in what god says and do as he says to be happy.

Then we have the other bad thing, why are Catholics always trying to have more followers? They know that they can manipulate people with the religious needs so they use it to have control over them. 

So far we have seen bad and good things of religion, now we only have to weight.

Is it ok to help some people in life with one of the basic needs at the cost of making other people's life a hell? While also controling the followers to do as you want? I don't think so. At the end you could harm all of them.

But not all religions are bad, we have Buddhism, as Catholicism you would be trying to be as someone else to be happy with yourself, but it isn't trying to have more followers, thus, it's not trying to control people. It doesn't harm any other group either, so it is the perfect religion right? 

I would have to do a research on it but so far it seems that way. It has less reach though, that would be it's problem. 

What I do is belief in my own god and in other stuff, those make my morale, if I can everyone should be able to as well right?

Perhaps, but when we are born we already are assigned a religion, that or we are pushed to one in the future.

So back to the question: Religion, good or bad?

It's an answer to one of humanity's necessities, the thing is that we have made it the wrong way and have taught people to hate instead of love, we have instructed the wrong morale in the biggest religions. Big mistake.

Religion in itself is like the knife, it can hurt and it can help, it all depends in the person behind it.