Just a Bigger Cult

At its core, Christianity is about power. It was started as a tool to gather power and money and it is still used to gather, hold, and wield that power.
The council of Nicea altered the Christian religion and its bible to separate it from the Jewish faith and to raise Jesus from a prophet to a god, for the sole purpose of gathering power.
Power corrupts in many ways but mostly in attracting those who are already corrupt.
Religion is a tool to corrupt people from childhood and tell them they are among the chosen people, that all their sins, no matter how heinous, will be forgiven if they repent, that they can do no wrong in the lord's name.
That is a system maliciously designed to corrupt.

It's intention is to corrupt.

The sickening part, the sheer evil of this system, is that this corrupt system claims that followers of Christianity are the only good people of the planet, that they are chosen to do God's work, that only they will go to heaven and avoid everlasting torture in fire.
And all the while the powerful Christians at the top are buying political power, lobbying for a theocratic state and creationism in schools, manufacturing weapons, and living in ridiculously lavish wealth.
Does religion do any good? Yes, at the grass roots level, there are truly good people who help the lost, volunteer their time, literally giving portions of their lives to help others. I applaud them. But I do not credit their religion for their kindness. I believe they would give of themselves just as readily if they were not religious.
As some people are easily corruptible, others are empathic and tribal in nature.
There has never been anything accomplished by religion that could not have been accomplished without it.

Religion flaunts its power openly, confident that it's followers will be so enamoured of their own salvation that they will not see the abuses of their religion. They willingly turn their eyes and ears from such corruption in cowardly fear of the possibility of hell, much in the same way they turn from evidence that denies their religion. It is as if a self delusional fog surrounds them when they hear of pedophile priests, of the rape and torture of non Christians orchestrated by Christian priests in the poorer parts of the world.

People think the inquisition has ended? No. Look at Africa, where people are still burned alive for not being Christian.

I know we're a young species. I know we're about a chromosome away from chimpanzees, but with all our knowledge and abilities, all our technology, our promise of greatness, of going to the stars... when will we stop being such primitive, superstitious creatures that allow corrupt faith healers and mouthpieces of an invented magic being to control us?
When will we grow up?

When we stop being afraid of being natural, mortal humans.
The cure for fear is knowledge, not faith.