Topic: RELIGION IT'S POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE IMPACT ON SOCIETY - page 3. (Read 572 times)

So religion is like cocaine. 

In small, infrequent doses it can cure your cold, but when used frequently
and copiously it can destroy you and the people around you.

in my religion, there is no promise to be rich if I embrace it...
It cannot be denied that some people think that they are blessed because they embrace a religion with a good job and also abundant wealth, they don't really understand the purpose of religion itself. for me religion is a measure of positive life because without it I do not know what is good and bad.

Religion has a lot of positive impact to the society
Religion is to give correction, rebuke, direction on how to live life.
But when one ties himself to religion too much , makes  one to be ignorant

Well, I'm not going to drop a bunch of links for this, but here it is...

Einstein's Theory of Relativity has been a theory for a long time... well over 100 years. This means that it is known to not be proven to be factual, and the length that it has been a theory shows that it should be dropped from theory to some lesser category. But you almost can't find a scientist who uses it, and at the same time acts like it is only a theory. Most of them will say "theory." But most of them will treat it as fact.

Now, if Einstein's Theory of Relativity happened to be the only theory that was treated as fact, we would have a "Einstein's Theory of Relativity Religion." But the thing is, many scientific theories are treated as fact. Take Big Bang Theory for example. Everybody knows that the universe is around 13.5 billion years old, because the BB theory says so. Yet, it's just a theory, and one that can be collapsed quite easily.

Right in the theories alone science has become a great big religion.

I am the one asking the question, cause you drop a "weighted statement" without giving supporting details, documents, records that will prove you .

The impact of something is deternmined by how we use it.

Religion plays a crucial role for a person in giving a cultural identity. Each religion has festivals, traditions, mythologies which form a part of the tangible and intangible heritage of the country. Thus, religion contributes in order to protect this heritage and also adds to the diversity in the country.

Religion helps in creating an ethical framework and also a regulator for values in day to day life. This particular approach helps in character building of a person. In other words, Religion acts as an agency of socialization. Thus, religion helps in building values like love, empathy, respect, and harmony.

People are always on the quest of fulfilling the economic and material pursuits in today’s world. It is the religion which plays a crucial role in establishing our connection to the divine and developing the belief that there is a supreme energy that acts as a regulator in our day to day lives. Thus, the components of prayer, chants, hymns, etc. creates the spiritual bond.

Each and every religion promotes its philosophy and the crux of it has always been the welfare and wellness of the people. For example, in the Sanatana Dharma, there are ideas like Vasudaiva Kutumbakam (the whole world is a family), Sarve Sukhina Bhavantu (let everyone be happy) which nurture and cultivate love and compassion in the society.

You must work with scientists. Notice that you want to follow their silly religion.

"IN FACT, that's the driving force behind the scientists....." Are you a scientist yourself? do you work with scientist to have a solid deduction that they've said those things? or do you have a solid evidence, record that shows somehow?

Cause if theres non, then thats not a fact, thats your own opinion.

^^^ But the people of the science religion realize that they aren't going to be saved by science. They know that they are doomed. But they keep hoping that science will find a way to everlasting life for them. In fact, that's the driving force behind the scientists promoting Covid and a mRNA vaccine for it.

Religion in my place is becoming their fountain of salvation every time they do unforgivable things, thinking that they will be forgiven as what's written in the book of Bible.

They are attending sunday's masses as just like past time that they think as they attend it, all their acts are refreshed, and cleansed. As they go back to their weekly routine of being a "bad" person base on their religion.

And politicians do use religion as their basis for their action, when it is written in constitution that religion and politics shall be separated.

There's many more, that I forgot what it is.

Except that there is no sound, scientific evidence that the earth is older than about 5,000 years. That is as far as we can go back without making assumptions that we are using correct dating methods.

Dating of the oldest bone is based in beliefs that the science used is accurate, when it is well understood that there could easily be mistakes and assumptions involved in the dating methods used.

Modern science, because it includes assumptions, and might be rooted in all kinds of mistakes because of this... is religion.

Religion is the legalized scam in the present day society, it creates and helps to improve poor economy of a country, how can a religious member buys a factory and converted it to church where they will be praying for jobs.,that's insane and that can't fight poverty.

This reminds me of the study I was reading recently about a scientific research, I read that the oldest bone in the world was found in Ethiopia, Africa about 4.2 million years ago, Immediately, I compared that with christianity story of creation of Adam and Eve from a book which is about 2700 years old now.

The result: Religious stories are illusions and myths without proofs and facts, it's impossible to feed thousands of people with two fish and five loaves of bread, in Islam, there was a flying donkey that drove Mohammed to heaven., these stories can't happen and can't exist.

Science shows the actual proof and facts about the evolution of mankind and others to talk about.

Religion has brought more controversies and division than we could see it today. Yeah it helps in making some people feel righteous just because, they behave in a certain way and build a good relationship with their religious figure hard but, what about the people around them. Everyone outside their religious circle becomes a case of sin or an infidel to them. This is really bad! It surprises me how they claim to worship one supreme being and yet, the doctrimes vary so much and I begin to wonder how come about all these doctrims?
Religion is suppose to be the thing that bonds our world but what we have today is far from what we expect it to be, its more of a divisor than a uniting factor of our society.

@OP.

And the biggest religion these days is science.

If science had only maintained its original meaning of discovering and gather knowledge, science might not be a religion. But since science now includes placing faith in science theories - some of which will never be proven - science has become a religion.

Believing that something is fact, without the knowledge that it is fact... that is religion.

Let's take science back to the day of pure science... discovery and recording of what was discovered... so we can take it out of the category of religion.

Religion becomes a business so if you are smart make money out of it or simply go for other business and if you have lot of free time and lot of money and you don't know what to do with that then just go in the religious way so you can spend time and well as money for good cause. But if you are poor then you can become rich by working not by praying.

Im my country religion plays no big role anymore. I remember my grandparents were going to church every week and praying every morning and night. With hindsight it was a good think to be honest. Religion helped them to live a better a life. But what I can't understand is how some people misuse religion for their personal gain and fight wars.

Except that some people (not just religious conmen, aka. religious leaders) get the opposite from their religious teachings: lack of empathy for others (who don't agree on the same religious dogma, Sunni vs Shiites), intolerance (gays, transgender, women), injustice in society (women's reproductive rights, gay rights).

"With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil - that takes religion.”
― Steven Weinberg

Religion has been since ancient times and still is until now the most effective engine in society. Religion has a great role and an effective influence on the lives of people in all societies, from primitive societies to modern societies. People have always felt that they need religion to organize their lives.
The positive aspects of religion are that it organizes relationships between human beings in a way that calls for mercy, tolerance, and the spread of justice in society. It gives people permanent hope that their future will be better and this helps them to pursue their lives in peace and tranquility.
The bad side about religion is the control of clerics or extremists in every society over the lives of people and their intimidation of the consequences of anything they do, no matter how worthless it seems, they understand religion in their own way and do not allow anyone to contradict them and spread corruption and tyranny in the name of religion and turn people's lives into hell.

It unites yes for people who have the same belief.

But the negative of it is that it also divides people including those believers and non-believers. It creates a debate and makes one prove that he's on the right point and proves the other that they're not on the right point.

Historically, religion has primarily been a method of social control. Partly as a tool to enhance cohesion, like a tribal affiliation, fighting together for the glory of your deity, as a proxy for a flag, or other symbol. Partly also as a tool to enforce good behaviour... god as an all-seeing all-knowing invisible policeman... if transgressions against the prescribed moral code are automatically punished in the afterlife, then you as a leader have less need to surveil your citizens.

Nowadays I suppose it's often a crutch or support mechanism for those who find scientific reality a little brutal and hard-edged... which can be helpful as well as harmful. Also, with the weight of history behind it, religion has a huge cultural element and importance as shared heritage.

I think you posted that while I was typing my reply... basically what I was going to say above, although yours is less diplomatic (and more honest?)