Topic: Religion in our society - page 5. (Read 1755 times)

Religion is nothing but a practice that creates a sense of community and belongingness in people. It was just designed to collect people in a group and ensure that they would treat each other as a friend and won't kill and eat each other but that survival of the fittest theory is still grown deep inside human mind which actually makes religion preachings useless which is why crimes still happen there is nothing like evil anywhere it's just human showing the true colours which is the one having the power will always supress the less powerful one.

My comment here is not about whether evolution exists or not. Rather, it's about whether or not we can know it for a fact.

The key point about our knowing if evolution exists is the "random mutations" point. Experimentation has shown us that mutations exist. The same experimentation hasn't produced any changes from one species to another. But if it did, it wouldn't prove evolution, because of the word "random."

For us, random means that we don't know which particular mutation(s) or combination of mutations produced the changes. And since we are only at the beginnings of figuring out which particular mutation made a mutational change, we just don't know enough to be able to truthfully say that there were a string of mutation changes that accidentally brought life into existence as it is.

Until we can take the word "random" out of evolution theory, we will never know if there even is evolution. The funny point about this is, this little word "random" turns all of belief in evolution theory into belief in a religion. In other words, we are mislabeling evolution when we say "Evolution Theory." What we should be saying is "Evolution Religion."

What we need is factual evidence from thousands of years in the past, where we KNOW what the mutations were, rather than simply guessing that there were random mutations that made life what it is.

It's as simple as that. Evolution is simply another religion, and an extremely weak one at that.



EDIT: If there is a God that created everything, evolution becomes a religion. So, what is the proof that it was evolution and not something else? Provable world history only goes back about 5,000 years. Nobody really knows what happened before that, because NOBODY WAS THERE TO RECORD IT. So, how do they know that it was this way or that or some other? They don't. Evolution is all a guesswork religion.

Religion is ubiquitous and universal in human culture (in one form or another for thousands of years). Anthropologically, this suggests that it is a fairly important component of developed human behavior. Only after the Enlightenment do we have the slightest idea of the possibility that all this is absurd. It's really not about faith – it has to be about evolution. Religion must have brought a substantial evolutionary advantage, otherwise it could not have existed at all. The majority of people who ever existed would have followed religious forms because they would have had no alternative and simply conformed to the social norms of the time and place where they were born.

That's all because people don't realize what religion is. The simple definition of religion is anything that a person does religiously... like day after day... because he thinks that it is the right thing to do in his life. Then he gets together with other people who think like he does, and his religion becomes a big thing.

We all forget that naturally, in nature, ALL people need air to breathe, water to drink, food to eat, clothing (to some extent), a house (of sorts) to live in, companionship, and a few other things. We are the same in all the basic ways. And our religions are basically the same if you are talking about basics.

The problems start coming when there is wealth, or lying, or greed, or psychopathic thinking, among certain people who talk others into believing their war-mongering BS. In other words, it is people and their religious behavior that is the problem.

The best religion is the one that tries to get people to cut back on religions that are fanatic and want to make problems for other people. And the best of these religions teach about God, Who set everything up, and Who knows best the way religions should behave.

There is one greatest point of religion that we should all find out about. We live only less than 100 years. We need the religion that teaches about eternal life... Jesus religion... found through reading the Bible.

When religion is the main supporter of many manifestations of violence, it becomes involved in one way or another in perpetuating the situation due to its control over minds.
Unfortunately, despite attempts to develop, religions have failed to reform their systems, which, although they were able to modify some of the concepts, but they could not dispense with the racist view towards the different other.

Religion is initiators of any corruption that is happening every where and that is why we need to blame them very well because the mistake of everything started from our they breed their environment, you are right we are not ought to alone religion to tell us what to do or control us for our environment, that is bringing problem for many societies

In the world today so many people don't count religion as nothing when the history was in the bible,and they fine it every difficult to understand what our fellow brother have in mind about each other,
What I realise is that is that it's not how human's lives far back is they way the do now, when the world have changed, the religion nowadays has put fear in the society  today.
To love our fellow humans orh help them,it every hard because of the way there might see it, that is why we keep on having problems that can not be solve buy anybody, hope to keep a clean heart to people who live around and to be bless from doe who you've help.

Religion and religious practices in the different part of the world differs and those differences are what causes confusion among the people of the world about religion.So many people who belief in their different deities and don't have any idea about religion have found peace within themselves,not having trouble with anyone,because they don't have time to mingle with people that are gathering in the name of religion.People should just accept the fact that people are entitled to their different opinions on religion,and as such,are free to worship whatever they like.

   Nothing wrong about religion but only people are just wrong about mindset of religion they don't respect other people who had their own religion. That's the problem of religion.

Preventing Evil and Promoting Good All these things seem to be connected with religion but the key role in all of them is civilization. Religion is also a kind of law that contains things like posthumous punishment and retribution.۔ Just as man has been breaking national and international laws in order to live a life of greed and luxury, so too religion has failed to show man the right path. The root of the problem is greed, which no law or religion can eradicate. It is often heard from intellectuals and scholars that man as he is today has never been like this before and that his condition is due to his need and increasing competition to meet his food and other basic needs. Does for۔ The time has come for human beings to move towards a life full of happiness with the help of technology which includes love and caring for each other. And this is the beginning of civilization and civilization always erases the mark of evil from the subconscious of man.

Why do you self-condemn your religion like that? Is it because the only religion that is right is the one that tells the truth, and it doesn't happen to be your religion?

It's true that all simple, humble people will have a difficult time finding the truth. It has to do with much study of the various religions of the world.

In your studies, start by attempting to find out whey the Bible is the number one published book in the world. And it isn't number one because it has only a handful of copies more than #2. Rather, it is possibly more than double the copies of the #2 book.

Look at the history of the Bible and how it was put together. You will find that it is impossible that this book could come about, except that the hand of God guided it this way.

There are different religions in our society today,every human being is entitled to what they belief and worship.Religion is not supposed to bring chaos in the society,but it is obvious that the way some persons percieve it is quite different from the way some other person sees it.In some part of the world,Christianity and Muslim are like cat and dogs,they don't like seeing each other,and that is where I say they failed to practice  the right to freedom of religion,which allows us worship what ever thing we deem it fit to worship.

BALANCE
Good and Evil are two sides of the same coin, one cannot exist without the other. Think about it this way, if there were no evil in the society, how would you appreciate the good? The truth is that the more good trives, the more evil trives and vise versa. if i may suggest, do not think of the evil you see in man as a bad thing but accept it, embrace it and learn to leave with it. All you can do is to decide to be good inspite of the evil and stick to that path.

There are so many functions of religion 1. Religion promotes social solidarity: it simply means that religion rises to the spirit of fraternity. Religion strengthens the social in solidarity. 2. Religion has the highest power of integration and testing in human society. It is true that common faith, common feeling, common worship, participation in common rituals, etc. are the essential factors that strengthen unity and solidarity.

Religions has taking over 90% of human existence and thinking ,Religion determines how we behave ,eat ,dress ,Live our life.
Religion has taking over the society, it even control the government, Some leaders rule their followers based on their own religious belief and fail to recognise the followers too have their own religion and belief.
The question to be asked now is
▪His religion being over emphasized
▪How serious is your religious to you
▪Do you let your religion determine how you live your life.
Until this questions are properly answered then we can have a deep knowledge of how to go about religion.

Abstract ideas. I can so far agree on this point with you but the part where we try to disprove religion or the existence of some supernatural being or force, I can't say very much.
Maybe there is, maybe there isn't but, have you should be familiar that what you think of the most or the things you fear the most seems to befall you. That's how real religion and beliefs can be. You believe and as such, the pave is set for some force to take charge and operate as it wills. There are forces that controls this world but for them to have effect, you have to believe.

Your not believing in religion is a belief and your affected as such. Humans needs something to believe in gor there existence. More like the people in the past that believed in there Kings, even idolised them and of our time, people believe in politics and the government of there nation to save them. Its just how it is!

Religious leaders should be arrested for fraud.

Let's stop pretending there is heaven, hell, or sky daddy. Time to grow up.

It is only us, primates willing to kill their own kind for abstract ideas.

It is wrong for religious leaders to be campaigning for politicians or supporting politicians openly. What the religious leaders are supposed to do is to correct and preach about bad leadership.  Religious leaders don't have anything to do with politics or campaigning for politicians, it will cause a lot of damages in the society.

sorry if I am kind of highjacking the thread. how do you guys feel about religion or priests endorsing politicians? Our country, The Philippines, recently had our presidential election. as you can expect campaigns are everywhere which is fine by me, but what really irks me is that during the campaigning days a catholic church is being used by the supporters of one of the presidential candidates as a venue for her campaigning event, they even created a song for that candidate which was sung during a mass and priests pushing their political agenda during their sermons.

there is also a Religion called INC(Iglesia ni Cristo) in our country which Endorses Presidential and Vice presidential candidates to the people in their religion and asks them to support the Politician the religion endorsed.

Corruption of Political leaders and elite class is a major cause of unrest and crime in many countries and in particular developing world. Corruption can only be eliminated when system of accountability is effective and it is across the board and public should only vote for those politician who are honest, committed and above all God fearing because we often forget that we all will be judged for our good and bad deeds on the day of judgement which is the basic teaching of every religion.