none whatsoever. i don't like being told what to believe/think. i find religion to be little more than a way to make working class people feel like they're working towards something. religion, to me, is the root of all (most?) evil. it is the most powerful propaganda tool in human history, and has been used to promote more death and destruction than just about anything else.
my real beef with religion comes with it's outright dishonesty and rejection of the principles it claims to promote. religions sell a product they cannot provide: certainty in an uncertain world. this is very dishonest. they also twist their teachings to promote whatever the goal of the day is. jesus taught tolerance, religions teach bigotry. jesus taught that it was "easier for a camel to get through the head of a needle than for a rich man to get into heaven", yet they still seem to think they are competing to see who can build the biggest castle, preachers driving cadillacs with money that should've gone back into the community through charity, etc.
beyond that, religion is the enemy of progress. it's like trying to document geography while fighting with the flat earth society, though they're blatantly wrong, because "it's what they believe" and they have a megaphone to promote their misguided views. it is a 2-ton weight on the ankle of science.
and it's dangerous. people do crazy things for their imaginary friend in the sky. my own, perfectly level-headed grandmother essentially gave her life (quit taking her meds) after my grandfather died to "be with him". her brain had become so clouded with the BS that she ended her life prematurely to achieve something that someone knew was bullshit and was still quick to sell her on (in return for her cash in the plate, of course).
so, no, i'm not religious. i believe in a supernatural creator, but only in the sense that "creation" was whatever caused the great expansion (i hate "big bang".... misleading), and being that our laws of physics did not exist until very shortly thereafter, whatever caused it is, by definition, supernatural. i tend to gravitate toward colliding brane theory, fwiw. my answer is what every honest person's should be: i don't know, and neither do you. the real disgusting part is when people take gullible people for their cash selling something they know they can't provide.
How anyone can take money from a 80 year old grandmother for something they know they can't provide, and sleep at night, is beyond me.
