A god who orders his followers to model their behavior on that of animals, and not the coolest ones at that, is suspicious to start with, but the same god who declares that to dominate your neighbor, all you have to do is lend him money! Marx called religion "the opium of the people". Better still, religion is the people's specifications, skilfully concocted, then revised and adapted to their various spatio-temporal environments by a trilogy of inspired businessmen! In the name of a celestial entity, visible only to them, they've been encouraging us for 3,000 years to kill each other for their greater benefit. Homo juchremanensis explains, with supporting texts.