Even religion has some faults tho. Most of them promote you to do good and avoid bad by saying "either do good and have eternal pleasure, or do bad and have eternal suffering" with things like lots of food and comfort for the good side, and fire and torture and endless pain for the bad side. Why is this a problem? Well it results in most people following religion simply out of desire for paradise or fear of punishment, and their actions become rooted in their animalistic side. If you boil your belief down to wanting pleasure or fearing pain, you aren't really believing. You're following out of good/bad stimuli, just like with sin. A wonderful quote I like to think about in reference to this is from Rābiʻah al-ʻAdawīyah where they say "I carry a torch in one hand And a bucket of water in the other: With these things I am going to set fire to Heaven And put out the flames of Hell So that voyagers to God can believe not out of desire or fear, but out of love."

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