Organized religion is historically a world wide tax free corporation/ruling class that sells a product that it never has to deliver.
It preys on human emotion that is manipulated by promises of happiness all the while it is the persons own mistakes and successes that produces their own life events. When something good in their life happens they thank god through their religion. When something bad happens they blame the devil who is also created by their religion. It is the ultimate fraud in that the religion takes no blame for anything negative but in reverse accepts all the praise when positive things happen. It's biggest crime is creating people who adapt to and live by these same principals of denial in both fault and self praise thus creating a warped sense of normalcy and social responsibility.
Not one single human being has ever died and then came back to say that what was promised by organized religion had been delivered in the after life. It is only ancient myth that speaks of religious man-gods that claim to have died and received those promised goods thus perpetuating the myth and selling it as reality.
What we have received from organized religion is a history of control of the world governments and it's people by their influences that develop hatred for that which is different or thinks differently, thus putting human against human in wars and acts of terrorism. This philosophy creates a foe in the mind of the people that eliminates basic human kindness and replaces it with justification for killing one another based purely by their religiously perceived differences. Even within the same faction of a certain religious philosophy they create a division by the thought that if same god is with them, he must not be with their enemy.
It is organized religion that has set the many variations of itself at odds with each other thus creating the evil and ugliness that it claims it is saving it's own people from. No matter what brand of organized religion that one ascribes to it has in it's history created that in which it condemns, controls that in which it claims to free and steals from that in which it says it gives freely too. It justifies it's own lies by manipulating and creating it's own truths.
It controls and steals the lives of those living by convincing them they are unhappy and promising them a true happiness after their actual life in this present reality is over. It creates it's own horror using myth as fact and then packages it and sells it to it's blinded followers while concealing horrors actual origin. It serves the bungled and beguiled by creating the bungled and beguiled in the first place. It is the absolute epitome of the evil that it itself has created in the minds of it's followers.
It is life's grand magician creating illusions that mystify and stimulate those in witch it fools. Those who are fooled give allegiance to the ones fooling them not because of what is real or true but by what they are fooled into thinking is real and true. It is the mystery that they love all the while abandoning actual reality and putting faith in the perceived reality of the illusion and then praising the illusionist for presenting them with the mystery. Just as the magicians do, organized religion will never tell or show how the illusion is done or actually admit that it is really an illusion. As long as they can keep fooling a very large captive audience, they will take their secrets of control, manipulation, sleight of hand, and misdirection to their graves. A place where they themselves cannot deliver themselves from or prevent themselves from going to.