I used to think like that when I was younger but as I've gotten older and wiser I see things differently.None at all. I believe that all organized religion is harmful and completely full of shit. I am a complete gnostic atheist who denies the possibility of the existence of any god that mankind has ever invented.
I kind of said this before. All religion is harmful, and the most wicked, evil and violent invention in the history of man.
1: Some people can use religion as a tool for evil and will use it to get what they want.
2: Some other people will find great joy in religion and use it to do good and give them and others a sense of hope.
People have free will to choose what they want to do, however religion is just a message no matter what god you believe in. It basically tells a story and as supposed to teach you lessons on how to live life and treat others. Yes we all know that there are bad people in the world and there's also good and both these people see things from a totaly different perspective.
There's a youtube channel about Near death experiences, I think it might be called NDE or something like that, however after watching many different people and listening to their stories, well firstly I though they might have been actors or religious nuts or people just wanting to sell a book etc, but I did some research on some of them to see and they were just regular people with a story to tell. Now it was very weird, all the stories were kind of similar about what happened once they died, how they felt and what they say, how they communicated and what god actually was. Even me being the most sceptical person in the world has to wonder if they are all lying or even if just a single one of them is telling the truth, well it does give you hope for what happens once you die, and I could then see that religion is based on something solid after all.
Now for racism:
Many years ago we lived in hunter gatherer groups and there was enough food and resources for our group, another "foreign" group came along and stole our resources so that bred resentment in our group. Then we advanced and started growing crops - so we started killing strange "foreign" people and then enslaving them to do the work. This resulted in people fearing one another. Then we advanced more and our lands became larger so we created armies to defend them, and to invade others land and then steal their resources. Eventually people through countless millenniums grew to distrust "foreign" people and this served well as a tool, after all you never knew who was a spy for a "foreign" country and whether or not they would want to invade you or steal your stuff.
Basically it comes this, we have evolved to be wary of strangers and not to trust people that look differnt from us, this is a lesson learned through the blood of millions of our ancestors and they passed that knowledge down to us through their suffering and hardship throughout thousands of years - some would call this racism, after all we are judging another person based on their race. This is all good and dandy while times are good and we are not being invaded, however Ask a Ukrainian what they think about a Russian and vice versa - some would call their repsonse "racist", others would just see why they think the way they do.
So is racism good or bad? I would say neither, it's just a basic tool/survival instinct developed over thousands used for the survival of your own race and people. It's built into us all and forms part of our core, whether you want to believe this or not is up to you.
I take people how I find them, if you're a black guy and you're a acting like a prick, I think you're a prick. If you are a white guy or some other colour and you're acting like a dick, I still think you're a dick. On the other hand, treat me well and you get the same in return.