Topic: Religion in our society - page 2. (Read 1755 times)

I am in support of your sentence because not all religion are right because many of the religion practice abnormal things for their society which even their environment many people who know that their tradition is not well defined will a also inform you if you have go into a deep environment that I have an ancient kind of culture

I think I disagree with that one that want is a fallacy not all religious or all religion teach a good thing song lay religion teach about things but people don't understand until another people or another person from another ethnic group that perform different religion visit their environment so not all religion that teach a good thing in society there is a religion that sacrifices human be and doors religion who sacrifices human be will they call a good religion or a bad religion

^^^ Like some India religions, creation of the earth is mentioned in the Bible. There is a timeline there that shows that this earth is about 7,500 years old. It is not an easy timeline to follow, and it needs backup from other versions of the Bible than what is generally found in English today.

The point is that the Christian religion goes back to the Beginning, even before the creation of Adam and Eve.

For those of you who listen to the scientists who talk like they know when and how the universe started, consider that there are many unknown things that could easily show that their calculations are probably very wrong. And, because of the way the Bible is written, it also doesn't show the length of time back to the actual beginning of the Universe. The Bible only shows the amount of time back to the making of Adam and Eve on the sixth day, and the five days before.

All time listed before the making of Earth in the Bible - about 7,500 years - is unknown.

The role of religion for some people on this earth is very important, considering that religion is a place to fulfill human needs spiritually. Hinduism is the oldest religion in the world according to experts. however, long before that, the ancients had embraced the belief system of animism and dynamism, and even today many still adhere to this belief system.
Religion plays an important role in the history of human development. to the extent that the development of religion is able to form a social identity with a religious label, then that label creates the distinction between humans and other humans.

On the other hand, crime is not something that is foreign to human life because crime is truly experienced by humans on this earth. within every human being has an immoral dimension that raises the potential to act evil. various kinds of criminal acts that occur on earth confirms that criminal acts already exist in the structure of the human mind itself. religious or not, evil will always exist as long as humans still rule this earth.

note: I used to love to read, and I remember one of the philosophers, Gottfried Leibniz. Leibniz said of all that is possible, God has created the best. in this world there must be evil. man is created imperfect, and in this imperfection, he can have moral vices. because the world is imperfect, humans are victims of physical crime.

all religions always teach good things, especially manners. but there are people who really understand religion and practice it, there are also people who understand but don't practice it, in other words he knows he made a mistake but he still does it.

and it is lust that drives all these bad deeds. all religions must teach us not to submit to our passions.

for passion can make a king a slave, while patience can make a slave a king.

so human passions are the first to be fought. if we continue to fulfill our desires then, all of that will not have an end, instead it will become greed that controls ourselves.

If you mean Jesus in His earthly life about 2,000 years ago, and if you mean the actual, original writing of some part of it, probably not.

The Old Testament was completely written before Jesus was born. However, it was being copied continuously at the time of Jesus, and any time there was enough peace in Israel so that they could copy. They didn't have printing presses. So, scribes were at work, carefully making new copies all the time.

Other than some notes that somebody might have been making, Jesus ascended to Heaven before any of the New Testament was written. We rely on the Holy spirit accurately reminding the Gospel writers of what to write.

I wonder, was Jesus around when Bible was written or not?

Religion is a personal thing. A bunch of people might attend the same church or religious meetings, but what they really believe in their hearts might be different for each of them. There are crooks who go to church just to get recognition in society. Their religion might be a lie, but that doesn't mean that the particular religion as a whole is bad.

Religious in our society has brought a lot of change in our world today.
They society today has there own cause and life style of living ,this has brought alot of rich men to oppress those that don't have money to look has if there is no God but there is, you just need to have apply wisdom in what ever you are doing on earth.
Religion today has bring to our knows the bad from the good side of life, it has also make so many men powerful because the belief in there religion.
I guess religion in our society has done no harm to the society.

Religion is no one problem in Africa is doing more harm than good, imagine believing in God to give you a professional job when you are not competent for the jamb. Making people more lazy. Believing God will do every thing for us.
For my opinion religion is a major set back in african development

A person's religion is what he lives. He might say he is part of a peaceful religion, but if he doesn't act peacefully, he is lying, and his religion is something else.

Religion teaches us to live morally upright lives that lead to happy deaths, but all these violent acts have nothing to do with religion because, as we all know, it does not condone the killing of its followers. This reminds me of the Christian girl who was murdered last year by hausa people in North Side in the name of religion. As a Muslim brother, I had never seen anything like that in my community since I was born, so that accident made me feel especially bad. However, I must admit that human beings tend to be very greedy, selfish, and unkind to one another, which has a negative impact on society.

There is a very straight forward answer to this question. Religion is the root cause for violence and crime. Take for instance what religion has raised throughout history. Moreover, the christian church is constantly accused of pedophily. Religion is something that is retarded and doesnt have any place in future. In order to evolve, humans need to separate themselves from old and unuseful thigs such as religion. Imo, the world would be far better if we did not had religion.

Even without religion, everyone of us knows the right that will aid in the development of our society, and once you deviate from it, your good conscience will remind you immediately, but the problem is the willingness to implement it.

It's only because of this religion that the sense of humanity has survived in the society. Greed has brought people down so important that no bone cares about anyone they try to achieve their own interests. Agree that rapacity must be avoided in order to maintain peace and order in the true sense of the overall weal of humanity, we can make the society beautiful by being compassionate anyhow of estate, motivated by social weal and abstain from rapacity. At the morning of creation people didn't have different persuasions, all people had the same geste.

Many people live in this world, all of them belong to some tribe but they are human.  All people's hearts are not the same, some people's hearts are full of greed.  Those who have the wealth most need more, many beg but not enough.  People do not live forever in this world but people betray their own company.  But religion provides some security otherwise people would have indulged in more evil deeds.

Whatever religion you belong to, lies, greed for other people's wealth, and treachery can be avoided, peace will return to this society.  Our hearts are full of greed and lust because of which we betray our fellow man. Changing such habits will bring peace back to this world.

I will accept your appoint that crime's and violence is what make environment to be together and without crime that will be a unity and the togetherness for a particular environment because all this thing's is what makes someone to know the particular person that even be it's relative

Religion teaches us about how to live a good life and end it with good deeds, but criminal activity didn't begin with us and it won't end with us because even God, who is our creature, knows that we humans will never be satisfied with what we have, which is why he created heaven and hell fire before our existence. If you look at the world today, it has completely changed because primarily those to whom God has given power, such as some imams and pastors are the ones that entice young people to engage in illegal activities, such as using yahoo and other scams, the most,due to lack of funds.

But what does the Christian religion really show... that most other religions don't. It shows the personal - between you and God - everlasting life Jesus offers... and why and how it works.

Of course, the whole Bible revolves around doing and being good and righteous. The examples in the Old Testament of the Bible show what happens to people who are not good and right as they live before God, and people who are.

One big focus sould be this. In Matthew in the New Testament, Jesus says, "Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened." When it doesn't work for people who ask, they say that it was simply not God's will. But if it wasn't God's will, then how could Jesus say it in the first place?

The focus is faith in God. Time to focus on what faith in God really is. In a different area of the NT, Jesus shows what faith can be, "Because you have so little faith. I tell you the truth, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you."

It's natural for humans to act differently from what is expected of people who are under the umbrella of Christianity. True religion as @BADecker observed is supposed to be practiced without eye service or salutation.
But what goes on these days is hypocrisy and lip service but crime rates is on the high.

 Where I come from, churches are scattered every where but yet still there's corruption, crime and chaos around. While there are the good ones, there's still the bad ones who spoil the reputation of the good.