Utter and complete nonsense.

And yet, the only difference between this nonsensical Earian faith, and 'any' other faith-based religion on Earth, is the nature of the ethereal entity being worshipped and the structure of the rituals that comprise it. This leads to the ultimatum that the only thing which can make or break the validity of any given faith is the sheer existence of the ethereal entity in the first place. If you take away the ethereal entity, a significant portion of the religious apparatus collapses into meaninglessness, effectively revealing that billions of people have equivalently been wasting a very large portion of their lives in the pursuit of gaining favor with a nonexistent magical bunny.

Nothing is more terrifying than the prospect of death. Death is the root of all fears; it defines fear. This is the instinctual hook that religions latch on to in order to recruit the innocent/naïve among us, to maintain control of its members, and to capitalize on and focus the power of many into the hands of the few. This fear of death is greatly alleviated by promises of ethereal protection and a promise of an afterlife. As nonsensical as it sounds, people want to believe in immortality so badly that they are quite willing to submit to illogical and magical explanations for everything in their universe, and to even accept that questions they might have that may challenge these perspectives are not tolerated by the religions. The followers simply submit. This sets the stage for the perfect 'high'. Submission to 'faith' in the ethereal is a high, no different than the high that could be achieved from illicit chemicals. What could be a better high than believing you're immortal and will never truly die?

You already know the answer...would you join the Earians in their pursuit of gaining favor with the magical rabbit? Of course not, and if you were to cross path's with one of their followers and heard their pitch about why you need to join their faith, you would think they were crazy! Exactly; they are insane. When one believes wholeheartedly in fantasy, they are insane. It's an easy extrapolation to understand that anybody who believes in the ethereal is insane. Yes, that would mean billions of people all over our planet are to some degree, insane due to religion. This is why religion is a bad drug, it puts nonsense in your head that you act upon, make important decisions upon, and at its worst, hurt yourself or others because of these perspectives.

Though we are very complicated creatures and have many very different wants and needs among us, we are all most fundamentally human, and all humans share the same basic instinctual needs. It is upon these needs that religions plant their seeds, claiming ownership over what is inherently ours, and reinventing these desires to be interpreted as something that can only be fulfilled through religiously-ordained channels. Some examples of how religions take control of the human mind:

Death	-	Immortality, reincarnation, and/or some form of ethereal protection from harm are the bread and butter of virtually all religions. Appeasing the fearsome nature of death is a very powerful tool by which religions can attract and manipulate their followers
Fear	-	Nothing will coerce people faster than mortal fear. The threat of an unimaginable eternal damnation (e.g., hell) is the most powerful tool in any religion's toolchest
Ego	-	It is arguable that the most beautiful buildings in the world are churches, and with all the pomp, theatrics, beauty, and ceremony, coupled with the promises of 'heaven', well, who wouldn't want to be affiliated with that?
Curiosity	-	Most religions teach 'denial' skills (e.g., denying the existence of dinosaurs, etc.) in order to oppress any opportunity for followers to begin questioning the validity of religious teachings
Communion	-	Other than for the purposes of recruitment, religious followers often isolate themselves from non-followers of their faith, only allowing themselves to express this love and tolerance for their fellow humans amongst their own kind
Guilt and Shame	-	By creating a plethora of illogical, yet religion-benefiting guilt-laden morality (e.g. masturbating, homosexuality) in the minds of followers, they will much more easily and unquestioningly submit to the agenda of the religion in order to find relief from the artificially-induced shame
Anger	-	Most religious people typically react with great rage when their faith is put into question. They will often respond with shame-manipulation, diminutives, and other oppressive tactics, all with the intent of pushing away what they perceive as a threat to their beliefs
Remorse	-	Religions have created an easy 'escape-route' for people to believe they are forgiven for indiscretions they may have committed; a very appealing notion, especially for those that are prone to ill-intent
Nobility	-	Religions attach the notions of nobility to things that are not in any way noble. There are countless cases of religious people 'bending the rules' and justify it in the light of a 'means to an end', knowing that forgiveness is but a prayer away. This can manifest in many forms such as slander (e.g., atheism is Satanism), all the way to truly heinous crimes (e.g., terrorism), and yet these acts can still fit within a loose interpretation of religious doctrine as being something 'noble'
Pseudo-Logic	-	We all need answers, and religions typically claim to have all of them. This, fortified by religions teaching fantasy as fact, and various pseudo-logic techniques (e.g. credibility smearing by interweaving fact with fantasy, or bifurcation of complex scenarios, etc) in place of true logic, leaves a religious person poorly equipped to constitute reality for themselves
Repetition/Confusion	-	By overwhelming followers with a ceaseless barrage of religious mantra and routine, it will be impossible to make sense of it all, and hence becomes inconceivable to those followers that it could all be fantasy
Love	-	Something we can never get enough of. Religions leverage this desirable and teach you that the love you receive from their god is of the purest kind, and never stops flowing

Assumptions. We humans just love to run with assumptions. This, combined with our inability to surpass our ego once we have invested in an assumption (cognitive dissonance), drives us further and further down incorrect paths of perception. Below is a compilation of very commonly held assumptions that are 'all' untrue:

Common Misassumptions
Flawed Logic	that it is possible to have all the answers that there is such a thing as an absolute immutable 'fact' that if something can't be completely proven, then what seems to be the opposite 'must' be true (reverse pseudo-logic) that all religious doctrine is fact because portions of it are fact (credibility smearing) that the older a perception is, the more credibility it has that enough 'faith' can make something factual that credibility is added by 'strength in numbers' that hearsay is considered credible that something that has no proof whatsoever, needs to be disproved in order to be invalidated that everything you read is true, especially if well-adopted by the masses that you will be immediately notified by a respected source if your assumptions are incorrect that you can choose to 'not' be a part of a 'godless' reality that there's nothing to lose if one pursues 'faith' instead of science that there's no point to life without a belief in the afterlife that the universe is so complex, it must have been designed
Flawed Morality	that morality is not natural and can only be taught that giving money to the poor actually helps them that homosexuality is immoral that homosexuality is a choice that oppressing homosexuality reduces homosexuality
Flawed Politics	that 'freedom of speech' really exists, is noble, and has to be our absolute right in order to prevent oppression that it is illegal to mass-distribute false or unsupported information that having unlimited children is our absolute right that a person's age in any way dictates their maturity or caliber of judgment that fear of ethereal punishment is all that separates us from social anarchy
About Atheism	that atheists consider themselves to be their own gods that atheists are angry with God that atheists believe they came from 'nothing' that atheists hate religious people that the legal system defines the atheist moral code that atheists are materialistic (in the greed sense) that atheistic morality is entirely subjective, inconsistent, and fleeting that atheism is communism that atheism is Satanism that Hitler was an atheist
About Religion	that altruism can be genuine if one believes that a god is evaluating their actions that dedication to a god is not directly tied to the promise of immortality that religious morality is pious that religions aren't politically oppressive
About Science	that there is no solid evidence to support the Theory of Evolution that religion and science can mutually coexist, or even support one another that all science is of the same credibility that science is trying to hold a position of fact instead of theory that DNA was the beginning of life that once a paradox or irreconcilable dispute is exposed in a portion of a theory, then the entire theory needs to be completely rejected that if evolution was true, religions globally would concede its validity that entropy outpaces the natural creation of order that Einstein believed in God (Disagree? Please read: 19.264)

It's hard to imagine humankind evolving in perspective in any way other than the fantasy of religion. It would be difficult for our great ancestors to understand the world as a product of flowing energy as defined by the science of physics. They simply didn't have the knowledge to truly see our world and as such we have been forced to bear the blasphemy of mythological perspective for eons, suffering the tyranny of those that maneuvered themselves into the focal points of this power (such as priests, kings, etc.). Religion is a natural evolutionary stage in our burgeoning intelligence but we have come far enough now to shed the shackles of mythology and to stand free from ethereal addiction. We have the strength to face life, and death, and enough science exists to detail and explain a huge number of important questions, including the big ones: Who are we? Where did we come from? What is the point of life?

Yourself. Simply put, the noblest purpose in life is to make yourself happy. This purpose must always be balanced against the necessity of not hurting anybody else, but in any way that you feel the need to exercise your instinctual pulls, you are granted the right to pursue those needs. This is the true path to happiness, through the intelligent interpretation and placation of your unique balance of instinctual desires.

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