Question: Why do churches need lightning rods?

These pages are about my personal beliefs concerning religion and gods. I believe quite simply that there are no such things as gods, and that religion and belief in gods is nothing more than myth and superstition, which we would all be much better off without. I believe that religion encourages intolerance and hatred, and by its (often forceful) adherence to centuries-old myth and dogma holds back the collective development of humanity.

As Karen Armstrong wrote in her book "A History of God" - "In the beginning, man created gods". Gods, and religious belief in general, are an anachronism, dreamt up by mankind in an earlier, uneducated age to explain to simple minds the wonders they saw around them. We now have much better explanations for the way things are, and it is time for mankind to outgrow childish notions of gods and religion. We don't need them anymore, and we're better off without them.