When you look the two most populated monotheistic religions, Islam and Christianity, you see prejudice and hate written all over their holy books. However, more importantly, each popular monotheistic religion will eventually wind up like this. The true nature of a belief in god may not seem that horrendous, and it is truly not, however each religion’s attempts to depict this god are not only misguided, but also a danger to humanity in some cases. Look at each religion, they each tell their own story of how what god is. I hold the belief that there is far more evidence against god’s existence then for god’s existence, but if god does exist religion seems to be such of a futile attempt to explain it. If god exists, which I doubt, then we still have no idea about what god really wants, and I doubt anyone would truly find out. It is logically impossible for a god to have all the characteristics that many religions claim he has, and even worse is when religions try to portray the afterlife to the human. How can a god be all-loving but allow sinners to have eternal torture? Personally, one year of torture would be more then enough to decriminalize even the worst sinners. This is just a single example of a logically impossible god, and there are many more. However, more important is to realize that people believe these things that the church proclaims since the church has such power. Any monotheistic religion is based off speculation, not evidence, and this allows the religion to become corrupted. First of all, people will try to climb to the top of the religious “ladder”, the pope is the highest position, then the cardinals, etc. Once elevated to this level, the power they hold depends on the amount of followers often. How does he keep these followers? By claiming that his religion is divine and all that do not follow it will burn forever, he ensures that people will follow him. He will point out other religions as the “devil’s work” and leaves out minority groups that he dislikes. Furthermore, his followers do not denounce him because they believe his word since he is supposedly “divine”. The followers place a trust in him that is foolish and ignorant, and they believe him because so many other people do. The only way to dismantle the system is to convert the followers to another religion, which is extremely difficult, and then to reveal the darkest secrets of the church. Any monotheistic religion will try to portray a god without evidence, allowing more blind speculation and ignorance to occur which will ultimately cause fundamentalists which are backed by an army of people putting far too much faith in them.