Yes: religion is absolute faith in absurd tall tales of iron age shamans.

How incredible that intelligent people believe in it in their adulthood. It says a-lot about how deeply people can be brainwashed, and how they can compartmentalize where they apply their powers of reason and where they do not.

As Carl Sagan used to say, “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof”. Yet people cling to religious claims based only on the urging of priests, and based on unverifiable claims of fantastic occurrences: Moses parting the waters; Mohamed hearing the words of God from a goat; etc. For me to believe these things — I am sorry — I would need irrefutable proof with my own eyes. The other explanation — that these tales were fabricated — is just so, so, so much more likely!

As the author points out through his seven logical contradictions, the claims of religions make no sense. If there is an all-powerful force (which I think there is), then why would it care what we wear, how long our hair is, what we eat, how we behave, or whether we pray to it? If it is all-powerful, surely we are acting according to its design!

Plus, signs of anthropomorphism abound in religious descriptions of God. God is obviously a product of human imagination.

I suspect there is a force that is greater than us. Call it God if you want. But I am pretty sure that it is not described at all by any of our religions; and I think it is likely that we humans do not have the ability to understand the true nature of reality.