Topic: Religion in our society - page 4. (Read 1867 times)

Religion in the dictionay:
Look at any religion. It has its dogmas, its rules, its instructions, and all kinds of parts to it. Everybody who reads or hears about the parts, thinks different thoughts than everybody else who reads and hears the same thing. The thinking might not be greatly different. But it is different, because no two people think exactly the same thing the same way.

This means that everybody who says that he is a Catholic is different in his religion than everybody else who says the same. All formally religious people are at least mistaken about what they believe. But if they insist that they are the same religion with everybody else of that religion, then they are liars.

This means that the "clear definition of religion that all schools agree on" is not so clear after all. And the dictionary shows this about it.

So, since everybody is a liar with regard to everybody else pertaining to the religions of their individual lives, we can go to science fact (not theory) that shows the odds of there not being a Creator as entirely wrong. The complexity of things shows that this universe couldn't have come about as it is without an extremely powerful, outside Intelligence having brought it into being. Such a powerful Intelligence matches our definition of the word "God" in all the ways each of us might individually think of the words within the definition.

I don't understand why you insist on calling this religion. Belief in universal values is called belief in universal values and not in a particular religion. Human beliefs are not limited to religion, there are sects that believe in other things.
There is a clear definition of religion that all schools agree on. I'm not playing with concepts here.
I hope I understood your words correctly.

 Religion is not changing people in our society today because they only listen without practising. People believe they are the ones to get everything they want themselves without having faith in God.This has led people to so many evil forgetting that God has shown us how to live our lives.
  The devil knows we are humans so he brought sickness,diseases,problems and difficulties to make us afraid and believe there is no God so that we can do the other way round which is the evil way.
   If you don't have good morals that is a negative behaviour,a corrupt person can kill, all these are the devil's way. Most religious people are weak in their faith.

Since religions are based on complete acceptance of metaphysical ideas, their continuity is hostage to one of two things, either the establishment of a religious dictatorship, as happens with political Islam in our time, or the blessing of a military dictatorship. This is, of course, because the civil state denies it all the ways that religion can exploit to impose its control.
This can be summarized as violence is a system of life for religion to continue and this explains its continuity for many centuries.

Religion is all about good, but sometimes people distort its meaning a lot, which causes wars, hate, and violence

That's only because the attempt to be further away from religion is a religion in itself. Once this religion has become your position, you can go into other religions, like the religion of killing people through abortion, or the religion of making war on people of another country, or even the religion of becoming a thief and robber or swindler.

Pick your religion, but realize that even a religion of doing good to people won't last without God.

Your attachment is a realistic embodiment of the believer's mentality, which believes that it monopolizes the truth.
This is not the place to discuss the extent of the authenticity of the Christian narrative about creation and its causes, but all religions claim to possess this eternal truth and that all other narratives are erroneous, allowing room for nonsense difference that will necessarily lead to violence. The origin of religious violence is the ability of this system to operate outside the frameworks of reason and logic, and the further away we are from religion, the more inclined we become to harmony and peaceful coexistence. I really hope you realize this someday.

^^^ In addition to the above...

The hearts of people being supremely evil, how could God make us so that we could live, when our hearts want to destroy us from the beginning of our lives? Here's how He did it.

However old you are, think back to when you were 20-years-old. Didn't a year seem to take a lot longer to pass by when you were 20? Think about 10-y-o. At ten a year took a long time to go by. And 5-y-o time took forever to get to 6-y-o. What about 3?, 2?, 1? How many of our years were we in Mommy's tummy?

Sure, nine months is nine months. But as we remember things back and back at our younger ages, a year seemed to take longer the further we go back. If we could be aware of time passing way back in Mommy's tummy, how many thousands, or hundreds of thousands, of years would that have been for us?

During all those thousands of years, God is forcing us to live. Not only are we being forced to live, but we are being pushed into the habit of living. The evil in us hasn't forced us to die, because God took it out of our hands, and forced the habit of living into us, to give us time to live.

Then we are born, and now we are out here, and we have control of our lives, and we are gradually killing ourselves by not remembering how to live... even though we had thousands of years in Mommy's tummy to practice living, to get into the habit of life. We are overcoming the habit of living God forced into us.

Out here it only takes us 70 or 80 years to forget how to live. Then we die. All our own doing by not maintaining the mindset (maybe the cellular mindset) that we had when we were in Mommy's tummy for thousands of years.

We are natural born self-killers. It's only the way that God let us come into being that's keeping us alive for as long as we stay alive. We really need to seek God for help, so that we can stay alive longer, or at least find new life after we die here.

Human heart is desperately wicked. Thomas Hobbs and Jean-Jacques Rousseau as already said it in their social contract theories. Rousseau said, man is good and peaceful in the society but the institutions corrupt the peaceful mindset of man. Hobbs against Rousseau's theory on man and said man is wicked from birth. From thses exponents of man behaviour, you can see that religious has nothing to do with man. The question we have to ask ourselves here is, where are the institutions that corrupt the mind of individuals? But as for me these institutions are the government institutions like Legislature, Executive and the Judiciary. why? Because they are the law makers, implementers of the law and interpret the law. All the above mentioned are self-centered. It is not public centered. so the people are always angry with the system.  According to Augustine of Hippo in his City of God, he made mentioned of two cities. City of man and city of God. City of man is the city of violent, corruption and unrest while the City of God is the city of peace. http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/history/dfg/jesu/augcity.htm

The trueness of the existence of God the creator of all things has never been in doubt. It is evidence in creature. There would have been no meaning in  the reality of creation if not for the revelation of God the supreme creator. Therefore the assertion that there is no God is not  only baseless but totally devoid of sound reasoning since the evidence, as I have said earlier, is apparent in creation. This write-up has never, would never and could never have been here as a creation if not for me, the creator. Not withstanding, the society has continued to be bitter at religion for its constant deviation from the goodness and mercy it were to be known for. Hence, religion has been seen as worth nots and God as either cruel to the plights of mankind or is non-existing. Yet, there is really one true religion that stands out over all for the scripture.

Because of our different religion we belong to many religious worshippers have turn to enemies,  and our religious leaders are not helping matters.  Religious leaders are supposed to teach worshippers are to respect other religion it will make religion to be better in the society.

The funny thing about religion in our society is that the biggest religion is the religion of lies. If people believe what some church says, do they understand the dogmas the same way the church leaders do? Does any church leader understand it the same way that other church leaders do? But they say that they do., when they really don't. Or they know that they don't, yet they lie to the church to keep the church together. The biggest church is the church of lies.

However, if a person believes in God and Jesus salvation, although he doesn't believe it the same way as anyone else, he still has the simple religion of truth between himself and God... because God knows what he really believes, and accepts him.

Your words are very beautiful, my friend.

Unfortunately, the events of history prove otherwise.
Since the Greek gods were worshiped in the world, wars took place in their name. The famous saying "the gods want war" was chanted by the soldiers as a kind of stimulus. Christianity spread in Europe and the rest of the world by force of arms and violence, and the Crusades were the last wars in its name. Islam spread by the sword in the so-called conquests. And many other religions that legalized slavery and violence in all its forms.

Religion is a human need, but unfortunately it has been used throughout history to serve the ideology of violence.

Jesus said, near the end of Luke 12:
It all has to do with an understanding about Jesus. Is he the Son of God or not? Is He here to give us eternal life, or only to tell us the way to live this life? When good friends or relatives believe differently, there is division... division that often cause quarrels and fights.

Even though religion is aimed to teach good things, it causes a lot of anger and pain itself. Paradox but it is so

We need to understand that these are two major things that are different from each other, religion has its own believes and directions as guiding rules while the society itself has it own adopted culture as their own way of life, now how to balance the two into living a purposeful life is a thing of urgency to our present generation because this is one of the basis to misunderstandings and eruption of communinal conflict among the people of the society if not dealt with.


Some things were easier said than done, we most times frofess we love our brothers but putting it to action is a huge problem on many today, in which that's not what both the religion and the societal culture has taught to be the way of life.

Without the main religions (christian/catholic/islam/jewish) the world we know today would not be able to organize. That is why it is called established/organized religion. Most of the lessons they teach are how to be a good person. Bad people will always exist, and try to exploit any system for personal gain...including religions.

The core lessons are all that matters, and the rest is up to sinful humans if they want to follow them or not.

Many people does not know the real meaning of region and because of their misunderstanding of religion, they uses it to cause violence in the society making us to hate one another. Some people see religion and a light that shineth I'm out darkness seeing other people that do not take region serious as unreasonable.
Religion is strong and we should not use it to harm other people who does not have thesame perspective with us. Region should be for peace not for evil and we should all go for peace than supporting those that are using it to cause havoc.

Religion is not bad just that people follow Religion in the wrong way, they believe in Religion that they don't reason in the proper way. Some because of the Religion they belong they don't associate others who are not of the same Religion, they don't do things which on a norms it is the right thing but because of their Religion they avoid some certain things.

religion is something that we develop and we know from our own community neither it's a bye law which which the community engage self's and they focus on the tradition of the environment. Religion is like a tradition and it does not accept any other persons tradition so when you believe on your religion so will you do exactly what your religion stipulate about so that is why people find it very difficult to accept any tradition or the way of peoples character or the way people live in another environment so this is a function of religion and some people do stick on such the religion