Is the worship of Deities a tool meant for less intelligent people, a tool that should be given up once one becomes spiritually advanced?
The stone image can’t even wave away a fly on its face. It can be broken by vandals. How can such an image be God?
Doesn’t the Bhagavad-gita (9.8) state that God is the destroyer? So isn’t he the cause of earthquakes too?
When priests tell people about future sufferings and make them do rituals, aren’t they acting like hooligans who threaten people to extort money?
Doesn’t religion make people feel helpless by teaching that everything is destined and nothing is in their hands?