Topic: Religion in our society - page 9. (Read 3006 times)

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

Religion and religious beliefs has put problem at where there was not  supposed to be problem,It has caused major chaos in the society,and many atimes,lives and properties have been lost because of  this beliefs.
Another thing that comes with religion and it beliefs is religious intolerance.This is a situation whereby a religion is not able to tolerate another one,and when this comes up, lives are always lost.If every one in the society can mind their business and allow everyone worship whatever they like,the society will be free of problem,dilemma and crises.

something that is very impossible to happen if there is no evil on this earth.  as for religion and belief spread in every corner of the world will not eliminate evil on this earth. history records that there have been many violence and crimes in the name of religion, this is ironic. but I can not imagine if there is no single religion in this world, what will happen, will humans be more evil?

Religion cannot eradicate evils from society unless it has the power, especially state power.
It is not enough to just say that this thing is good and this is bad There is also a need for a law that determines the system of punishment, whether it is a liberal system or an Islamic system.
In Japan, Singapore, Dubai, and Qatar the law is strictly enforced, and like the government there, people protect the rights of others, which is why they are among the safest countries in the world.

religion at first thing that creates the ideas of segregation and the impact of disobedience so I believe is that with the norms and the tradition of a particular region is what we determine the characteristics of people living in such space or particular environment religion takes about the pattern of Life living in a particular place as well, because I believe from this definition of religion at the religion history ka example and it explain very well how people behave and how people communicate and they contribute to the development of society, so therefore religion is the foundation of my mentality depends on the environment so it is the determinant of the behavioral activities of human

You are mostly right when you say that all the wrong things that happen are happening because of religion. But to make it clearer and more accurate, it's because of wrong religion. And one of the biggest examples of wrong religion is the religion of no-religion.

Just because a person doesn't partake of some formal religion, and believes that religions are a bad thing, doesn't mean that he doesn't have a religion. By definition, what the word religion can included is, "something one believes in and follows devotedly; a point or matter of ethics or conscience."

This means that a person who believes that religion is bad or wrong, has that belief as his religion... a religion of no-religion. This self-contradiction might be the thing that wrecks a person's life.