Topic: Religion in our society - page 11. (Read 2046 times)

People talk about religion but selfish.
Folk's talk about religion but lack compassion.
People talk about religion but will be the first to betray you.
The society getting worst though, this is my thoughts about it, people talk about religion but fear death moti than they fear God.
People want a sweet and beautiful lifestyle but don't want to work towards it.

Exactly,most person's do not believe in either being a Christian or Muslims,they just believe in living a moral life.They don't believe in going to church or mosque,they just live a life that is very simple.They are Pagans,they neither worship the devil nor worship God,neither believe in heaven not hell.They believe religion is brought to devide the unity of the people.
Therefore let every one live according to what suits him or her,being a pagan,a traditionalist,a Christian or a Muslim do not really matter,what matters is living a peaceful life that does not affects or troubles the existence of another person.

I certainly agrees to this statement. It's the same old cycle that most people would do, giving confessions and pray so that all of their sins will be forgiven. This is how the world turned out to be, the reality that we have face. It's just that religion won't stop the evil inside of them because they are swallowed by the darkness that causes them to do such crimes. We all started in being innocent and some started in being religious but nowadays instead of people who are believer influencing non-believers, the non-believers instead influences the believer to become a non-believer. It affected the society and our economy.

The key is their will, if they don't want to, they will never listen but if you can persuade them, they will realize. All of us are good people but it's just sad that some people lets their evil self takes control of everything and started to fall down in an empty hole that could lead them nowhere.

Although not all believers influences by non-believers to become one of them, some holds a strong faith that makes me idolize them. They work so hard to make other people realize their mistakes and could even influences non-believers to believe in God again and helps those believers but does not have a strong faith to be awaken again and make them realize once more.

Religion simply puts, the way of life of a person or groups of persons. So, we could say, a life of crime is a religion for criminals and its elements in the society. That's just how it is and as such, having someone to act or behave outside his or her religion is some difficult task to archive.
So, its really just up to a person as, the context circulates around freewill which could pose a lot of trouble becuase, not many individuals would want to go through the things they go through in the society and still choose a pius living. It's rare but, morally supporting religion can only try whole hoping for the best.

The world is certainly full of good, bad and ugly phenomenal. Various religion and traditionalist are a means or guide to harnessing these phenomenal.

Religion can help all of this why ?
The ways of the world are more of negative deeds than positive deeds.
The wicked and bad gets away with whatever they want, doing, this is why I don't bsee religion doing enough around lately.

The religious man needs to abide by the laws and commandments of the holy book, stay away from certain things,and the society is one of this, staying away from this shows and guides one on the path to every religious man/woman.

it could be that even without church, God will not be lost in us.
maybe you can give some examples of people losing their faith in god because of the situation

this is the best opinion in my opinion. because in principle all religions teach goodness and peace. but lust is not able to be controlled by the adherents of that religion, to pollute the sacred values taught by religion.

I believe that religion is a guide to being a better person, leaving better life. Sadly, many of our developing societies today are ruled by leaders that have shape-shift religion into either tools that they use to control the masses or an opium that is used to get the masses so high and addicted to limited and myopic sense of humor.

Religion and it different beliefs have made the nations,societies and countries broken apart.The supremacy of one religion over the other is becoming problemsome in the society to the extend that the religions are fighting each other everyday and putting troubles in the mind of the people.

Religion and it divers beliefs has caused so many damage on the lifes of human being,Christians and Muslims fighting each other.To me religion is just bringing confusion in the society.

Religion learns the complete code of life. It briefs the system & conduct of society. It promotes political behavior and the financial system. It makes a society civilized. It builds the character of people and gives us success in life. It gives a peaceful spiritual system. It develops moral values. It engraves your personality into gold & diamond. but people do not follow religious rules and values.

Don't you know that among the definitions of religion is this: "something one believes in and follows devotedly; a point or matter of ethics or conscience: to make a religion of fighting prejudice?" - https://www.dictionary.com/browse/religion.

This means that your whole life is a religious one, because you have faith that you won't (hopefully) die in the next minute or two. But you really don't know. Every now and again and asteroid/meteorite hits the earth. But nobody knows when or where. "The odds," you say. Lol. Ever heard of a car accident, or many other things?

Going to church is not necessary for anyone in religions. I am catholic but I barely go to churches anymore, but I believe in GOD and trusts Jesus.

Less families in churches doesn't mean that their kids are not being taught who God was and who Jesus was.

Although, maybe some are now losing confidence to their beliefs because of the situation.

Region is like norms and culture of people from different perspective of life living, but you are directing your comments or emphasising in one directions which is Catholic church, let their be no condemnation and no procrastination, different churches have their method of pleading God from dirt life living, it's obvious that region can eradicate the level of crimes and it can only occur if it's well handled in the environment, what is the problem is that the way people living in A zone method of region and people who is residing in B zone method of life,  can not be the same, but bringing the A-B zone together it's obvious that they will be different adoption of character which might lead to different commitment of crimes from different angle.

In my country religion is declining very fast, nobody is going to Church anymore. Kids these days don't even know the meaning behind the religious holidays. The only time when the church is in the newspaper it is because of some scandals. People just don't believe in God anymore. Which doesn't need to be a bad thing. If we look at the past we see that almost everybody was religious back in the day. It was very common to leave a lot of money to the church so you could go to heaven. But did this help to reduce crime rates? I don't think so, crime was pretty common in the past as it is today.

What's better about dying? Christians know that there is an afterlife in Heaven or Hell. They know it lasts forever. So, any idea about focusing on religion for this life, is really missing the main focus.

As far as opinions about religion go, many opinions ignore God altogether. And that is what trouble is all about... ignoring God and what He says.

Your words are completely correct. Religion should make our life a better place to live in, but what happens is the opposite most of the time. I think the reason is the difference in the interpretation of religion. Each person in his own way, every person believes himself is right and the rest of people are wrong, even those who belong To one religion, you find between them a difference of views, conflicts and perhaps hatred. This happens in all the major religions, including Christianity, Judaism and Islam.
The stagnation in thinking and the lack of acceptance of the other opinion is the biggest problem of religion, which feeds these tendencies with more violence and hatred.

Religion has been a thing of controversy and I'll emphasise on Christianity as a religion because, that's the one I know much about and I am a Christian myself. One issue with religion is how one church views other churches and have different doctrims in honouring just one God. I wonder if churches are really helping, with the amount of churches in our world today and the resources available to them, the crime rate in our world would have been reduced to the nearest minimum. Sadly, this isn't the case as the crime rate increases by the day. Is it that, people aren't really attending these churches? What is the issue here or are the churches not passing on the proper message or its a thing of the congregation not practicing what is been thought.

Because beliefs alone can't change a person innate personality. There will always be a person, no matter what the religion is will do something you actually be surprised to see. There are even cases of priest being a pedophile, Pastor who kills someone, Chapel Server who steals and many more.

There are many hypocrites in every religion, who looks like someone very religious in church hours but different person in different days.

So yeah, religion has is not significant to reduction of crime rates in the system.

According to nonnewsledger.com, Top 10 Reasons for Crime are:

• Poverty. This is perhaps one of the most concrete reasons why people commit crimes.
• Peer Pressure. This is a new form of concern in the modern world.
• Drugs.
• Politics.
• Religion.
• Family Conditions.
• The Society.
• Unemployment.
• Deprivation.
• Unfair judicial system.

So, as we see, religion can help to reduce crime rates in a particular community, it is also one of the world's top causes of crime. Religious fervour can incite feelings of aggression towards those that do not share their religious beliefs.