The Truth VS Religion

The more time I spend reading articles like this one about a christian turned atheist the more I become an atheist my self and am disgusted by religion. The idea that we have to fear going to some place called hell and would have to worship some power hungry bastard so we can serve him for eternity in heaven is so mind boggling for me to even imagine. My first year of school was in a catholic school and I remember it as one of the worst years of my life. Its no wonder that the world is so fucked up and everyone is killing each other over beliefs and fake gods. Mankind would have been so much better off if we never imagined god. The truth is that religion was invented to control the masses which it did and the rich got richer and the poor got poorer. I read a great quote from Mark Twain the other day that said "Religion was invented when the first con man met the first fool".