Why are religions anti-human rights?

Someone who follows blindly hasn't bothered to learn what God has to say, but has allowed others to do all the scriptural studying for them. Get into the word and learn for yourself what God is saying concerning these topics.

As far as I know there is one religion that is accepted by God. All rules and regulation in a religion is determined by God, and is clearly stated in a Holy Book. The Holy Book is a guide for all human beings. God teaches people to respect one another, to live in harmony. One person can not influence others to follow what he believes. He can only convey what is mentioned by God in the Holy book.

Some of what you say is true. However, you are painting all religions with one broad brush stroke. To do that is wrong. I am not familiar with any religious body that is guilty of all the things you mentioned.

While God doesn't given us a license to behave outside His will, He does give us free will to decide whether or not we'll be obedient to Him and warns us of the consequences if we don't. God uses religion as a warning device to remind people of the things for which God doesn't approve. God won't force you to live according to His statutes and religion has no control over whether or not you'll obey God. In today's society I don't understand why anyone would get worked up over religious "rules" unless one felt there was validity in those rules and wished it was otherwise.

Not all religion sare like that.

Your definition of "religion" is overly narrow.

exactly why I don't subscribe to any man made religion and won't. None of my daughters were slotted into any particular religion but they all were exposed to many. in my opinion, the choice was theirs. I think it's good to know about all of them and yet keep an open mind also. Once you slot yourself into one belief system then you shut down from further learning.

This because every religion is basically a confidence trick and like any confidence trick it is necessary to keep control of what the "mark" is thinking. I do not say that every priest is a confidence trickster as some do believe that what they are saying is the truth so they are also being conned. Philosophical religions such as Buddhism do suffer a lot less from this aspect than deity based religions. This is confidence trick aspect is clearly show in one of the fastest growing religions and that is the Mormon religion. Joseph Smith was a con man and the story of how he found this golden book that nobody else saw and how once copied it disappeared is clearly such a blatant con that is almost beyond belief that anyone could fall for it and yet the religion he founded built Salt-lake City on once of the most unpromising sites in the world. This I think illustrates just how much some people need to believe in something even if it so clearly nonsense. This is a very common human trait

Reason #45,729 the fish doesn't subscribe to any religion. Religion is a very odd thing. Almost every religion claims to know how the world's gonna go -- how it gets by, how we get by, how it all ends. Yet there's not any evolution of thought in religion that exceeds the time period in which the texts were written. Odd, that. But hey. Who knew slavery was bad or that women deserved to be treated as equals? Yeah. Most religions I know of demand obedience and strip dignity. Of course, it's rare you'd find someone believing in a religion feeling as if their dignity has been stripped or as if their rights are lesser than anyone else's. But religion sure is a controlling thing. The way I see it, if a deity wants me to do what it says, it can come tell me. No mixed message. No wind blowing at a funny time. No Tim Tebow throwing for 316 yards with an average of 31.6 yards per pass. Like the Price is Right, baby -- come on down! At the time when most religions were conceived, human rights weren't two words that even made sense to put together. So, at least for me, that says everything one needs to know about the validity of religion. But that's just me.

Speakeasy, I agree with you. I for one who studied sociology observed that religion control the society -- example, women in the society. Don't you know that virginity is a myth? -- but still men and women in the society believed that all women in the world should bleed in the first night of marriage even if it is a myth. Not all women bleed in the first night of marriage. There are many of them and I really can't mention them all and I think this is the reason why secularist and humanist came because of what the religion done to our society. They feel that religion control the society and of course, religions have no social unjustice when it comes to our society like for example, women's right in the Philippines. Catholic church forbid reproductive health bill for women here in the Philippines. I just don't understand why and I just don't want to think about it.

My thought is control. All religions are no different than organizations that want control. I don't know many religions outside the main religions like Christianity, Islam, Hebrew, and a few others that actually push their views on others but those are the ones you hear about the most. When studying as just a wiccan, I never tried to do as such. Back to what I was saying though, it is all about control. It is all about the brainwashing done to them by whatever religious sect that makes them believe they are above everything and can control everyone. It is the god-like promise that follows most religions with promises of immortality when we are all really just going to rot in the ground. Just for one moment... imagine starting your own religion. Imagine how many people out there are desperate for answers than you can tell them anything as long as it makes some off the wall sort of sense, they will follow you. They will worship the god you created. They will put money into your church. They will do anything you want like an animal you teach to do tricks or someone under hypnosis. You can get them to do anything. Believe anything all for the sake and favor of your creation. You have that power... and then human nature kicks in. You want to control more of the populous. Your teachings start slightly changing in order to suck more people in. If you were a demon as some believe in then you have just harvested millions of souls by the people who blindly follow you. They want laws changed in order to suit your creation. They want to kill in order to look good to your creation. You have the control. You can do whatever you want. Then when you pass away someone else in the people you controlled will rise up and continue to lead them along and control them. They are anti-human rights BECAUSE they are made to control the masses. You can not control the masses if you let so many people be 'free'. Its common sense. Don't believe me.. right now with the 2012 predictions ask how many people are turning to religion in hopes of a salvation that only exists in their mind?

My point of view as a THEIST person, is we are created by God, and religion is not a man made, but from God! So all the rules cames from it are from God! We never know what really right and wrong, don't we? All cultures had the diffrent views bout what right and wrong! Just God knows the real truth!

Because most religion is about law and obeying things to do exp for christinity is all about grace