@ mithra: Clearly you don't really know that much about the bible. It has in no place anything proving it is the word of God; it was written by man. Anyone should be able to tell that. Whether these men really did hear a divine being or are just claiming it in order to improve their own image is up to what sounds like the word of a divine being to you. Maybe none of them did. Maybe some did and some are speaking falsities. But I highly doubt they all did. For example, I completely ignore those sections which declare things like "thou shalt not eat the flesh of the calf with the milk of its mother" - I honestly think it was just the guy writing that having an OCD moment (I know I have them. I just ignore them, mostly).
The chrysalis is not evil; there is no such thing. There is a lack of morality, and there is inhumanity (a lack of humanity), but not evil. The chrysalis is the challenges that people must go through to become stronger. And, as stated before, many religions, such as Christianity, say that people have free will as a gift. Could we have free will with an omnipotent being controlling us, ensuring that we did no wrong towards others? Such a thing would be hypocritical. Does simply giving the beggar money and sending him on his way help him at all? It seldom does.
No, evil in the world is not evidence against Religion; there is no evidence against it. On the other hand, there is no evidence supporting it either, so it is open to skepticism. It is one of those things which can neither be proven true nor false. As I have said before, it is simply a matter of belief, and you should have a good reason to believe or not believe what you do.
Now stop bashing other people's beliefs. You have nothing solid to do so with, and they have nothing solid with which to do that to you. It's fine if you don't believe in a religion, but saying it's wrong is an extremely close-minded view, especially when you attempt to prove it wrong. It's like the Greek philosophers denying Democritus' hypothesis of atoms; they had no proof supporting or denying atoms (as they lacked the means to obtain it), yet they denied it, even ridiculed it, in the close-minded support of an older idea that anything could be infinitely divided and remain the same substance. That is what all of you are doing, discussing religion in the way you are; denying something with nothing to back you up, and even without means to truly prove your ideas.
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