Gatekeeping, trying to separate religions and their impacts of laws and impacts on society, vs a belief in God. Many people attend the churches for shared valu

Gatekeeping, trying to separate religions and their impacts of laws and impacts on society, vs a belief in God. Many people attend the churches for shared values and community membership but might not believe in an Afterlife or "God Watching them". Even the FreeMasons only requirement is you believe in something bigger than yourself, a higher being. And that can be anything, even the universe via the big bang creating everything. Saying you shouldn't believe in Religion, Believe in yourself, is no morally different than saying, don't program in Perl, only Python. Its a narrow and incomplete viewpoint normally with some agenda behind it. As for prayer for wanting a resolution to a problem, is no different than "Positive Thinking". It allows the person to cope with a bad situation. Once you look at religion as a building block to action, and how that action can be replicated, you move beyond the religion and study behavior that is being shaped and what reason. Way to complicated of a subject to be broken down to, religion bad, yourself good. (imho)