If you are comfortable with yourself you really do not need religion at all. You see if you have self-confidence and will just rely on yourself instead of searching for an invisible crutch or friend you will be so much better off in the end.

You should join those who have ditched religion and become self actualized and it should be rather obvious for anyone who takes the time to look at over all religion and a little history that indeed religion is just a way to control human populations for the benefits of those who do the controlling. Ditching religion and knowing self is really where you need to be in life.

Many religious folks do not want to admit it, but the current argument is that religion is nothing more than a crutch for weak-minded individuals who lack self-esteem? Or for those who could not cope, got involved in drugs or needed something to turn their life around. Indeed people who are religious will not admit that their religious belief system is a crutch to help them handle lives little challenges or that they lack the personal inner strength to do it on their own. But at the same time they will state that they have given their lives to God and are here to serve his will?

Interesting, serving his will rather than you own? Why? They say it helps them find moral clarity? Why did they lose it or something? It is time you ditch your religion and started believing in yourself and developed a sense of self-esteem and ditch the crutch. Consider this in 2006 and stop being so weak, it is unbecoming of your genetics.