im going to have to agree with these quotes:

-"Human beings will find a balanced situation when they do good things not because God says it, but because they feel like doing them."
Olof Palme

-"If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for a reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed."
Albert Einstein

"It[religion] is the opium of the people."
Karl Marx
i prefer the word "placebo" instead of opium.

I see faith as unnecessary. I bet most of the people here practice their specific religion simply because their parents did, and their parents before that. If you were raised in Saudi Arabia you would believe Mohammad was the last prophet and the black stone came from heaven. If you were raised in India, you would be a Sikh, Jain, Hindu, Muslim, Buddhist, something.

Its not like you when you were a little kid your parents placed different pieces of paper representing different religions and the paper had a summary of each religion and your parents let you choose which you think is the one that suites your beliefs.

At a different time in history you would be a different religion, at the time would you know that its the correct one? No. Even some guy named Ron Hubbard started his own religion that now has a following.

It just seems like people need to realize that religion doesn't matter. You would be the same exact person with or without religion. People don't need to live with "faith". It's arbitrary. People need to 'free their mind'.