Topic: Why do people believe in religion? - page 3. (Read 19616 times)

Is that your religion?

If you are being controlled, get out from under the control if you like. If you don't, you have accepted the control, and it is essentially part of your personal religion.

Remember one thing. If you want to live among other people, your personal religion will have to adapt to at least respect them for their personal religions.

This is good.

A human being is the basic form of religion.

When a man and a woman get married, they form a family that is a religion. Honoring your parents by accepting their religion is one of the best things a person can do. After all, if it were not for your parents, you would not exist.

If their religion is bad and wrong in some way, the honorable thing to do is to point out the wrong to them. But even if they will not change, it is honorable to respect them in their religion.

Certainly if you don't like their religion, start your own. But recognize that there is no reason for anyone else to take part of your religion without you doing a lot of convincing that your religion is good.

Which would you rather do? Follow the country/nation religion of a bunch of political strangers? Or follow the religion of your parents who you love and respect?

And also, i would like to add that Religion is now considered as a Family Tradition, that if you don't want to follow that tradition , you will considered as an evil member and remove you as a family member ( as per my experience.). Specially at my country , this thing is very NORMAL.

People still believe in religion because we are ultimately still being controlled. Some people are more comfortable with accepting rules and regulations placed upon them than actually making up their own motto to live by and questions to ask. The unexamined life is a life void of pain, if you follow and abide you will not suffer as much as someone who knows what they are going through and feeling trapped.

Not everybody, unfortunately 

Thats why we have word "nihilism".

philosophical doctrine that suggests the lack of belief in one or more reputedly meaningful aspects of life. Most commonly, nihilism is presented in the form of existential nihilism, which argues that life is without objective meaning, purpose, or intrinsic value. Moral nihilists assert that there is no inherent morality, and that accepted moral values are abstractly contrived. Nihilism may also take epistemological, ontological, or metaphysical forms, meaning respectively that, in some aspect, knowledge is not possible, or reality does not actually exist.

The term is sometimes used in association with anomie to explain the general mood of despair at a perceived pointlessness of existence that one may develop upon realising there are no necessary norms, rules, or laws. Movements such as futurism and deconstruction, among others, have been identified by commentators as "nihilistic".

Nihilism has also been described as conspicuous in or constitutive of certain historical periods: for example, Jean Baudrillard and others have called postmodernity a nihilistic epoch; and some religious theologians and figures of religious authority have asserted that postmodernity and many aspects of modernity represent a rejection of theism, and that such rejection of theistic doctrine entails nihilism.

I've already made sure that people also come back when they get sick. I just mean in the soul people try to cope with some problems. Maybe it's like a push with which it's easier for them to live.

Everybody have religion, even if we have different religion we understand each other. People believes in religion because they believe that theres is one that is superior to us and bring us to life.

I don't agree with you.
People wants to understand what is purpose of their life.
They understand that visible, external world, is not everything and that also invisible, spiritual reality exist.
If we wants to live happy and fulfilled life, we need to unite and harmonize this 2 worlds and find higher purpose in our life.
People are not afraid of God, they feel that God is origin of their life and love, their heavenly Father.

Basically, humans have limited knowledge in many things, both about the visible and the unseen, and also the limitations in predicting what will happen to him and others, and so on. Because of these limitations then man needs to need a religion to help and provide spiritual enlightenment to his self.

  Man needs religion not just for his own goodness before God alone, but also to help himself in the face of various problems that sometimes can not be understood. It is here that man is hinted at by his self and his nature that Substance is superior to his Self, All-Great, as the anthropologist explains that religion is a response to the need to overcome the failures arising from the inability of humans to understand the events or Events of various kinds can not be accurately known (Sulaiman dan Albuny, 1984 : .

   Apart from that religion also gives a signal to man and nature that there is a superior Substance, the All-Mighty Substance, in which man needs to rely on Him through the medium of religion. In other words, it is necessary to rely on and take (tawakal) to Him through religion because religion becomes a place for us to complain and communicate with God. Our submission to God is based on a doctrine that man can only try, God determines.

We are only human that we didn't know what happen in the past million years. Were havem't some information what was gonna do when the first human made. People easily believe when they didn't know or idea in other situation. Me too i believe that there was a God watching us. Scientist said that there was a thing that might happen its all about science. Charles Darwin said that we are from MONKEY. were from monkey? So where monkey did form or how?

If you approach the issue from the point of view of the Faith, then you can ask yourself one question, And what else can you believe in a person? It seems to me that it is always true to be present with a man. Perhaps someone believes, but someone else. But faith must always be in man.

I agree with your opinion. They fear the unknown, yes, they want the answer. But the scientists are not, they just believe in things that it can be proved. God maybe is one of those, unless the scientists prove who is he, they won't believe in God.

Because they want someone to follow, Because they want to pray to someone when they are in trouble.
Becuase when we see to something we thinks about its creator, but when we see the world the earth we think about its creator and that is God that created us and all the things around us.

Exactly!!! People fear the unknown, and they have a need to fill that with something, anything, what ever just to cover  and lower that fear. Discussion are made, evidences are presented, there are few facts, but actually no one knows where are we coming from, no one can explain where do we go after we die (if anywhere), there are many questions that don't have an answer.
I don't believe in God and religions, that just separate people. I blame religions for many wars in history and now, I can't understand how can someone do evil things in the name of someone who doesn't even exist. Religious people live in delusions, and while they think about some imaginary Gods life is passing and in all this centuries religion didn't do nothing good for humanity!

People believe in religion because they fear the unknown. So, they want to believe in someone who is superior to them in order to feel sort of protection and self-relief.

Religion or believing can be a really powerful thing to help people get over hart trials in life. I have seen a lot of people that have overcome bad vices and addictions in life, through the help of religion and teachings in it. And i do not mind blindly following this. No matter how impossible the thought of GOD's existence may be. And i gotta say, I am glad that these people found inspiration and meaning to change for the better and go on.

It's because Religion is part of the tradition of the family.
Religion is a powerful tool to create allies, to build connections.
A lot of people believe in religion is relative on believing in God.
Without religion, many people will think that there is no sacred rule on how to live their life for they see religion as
their way of life and way of following their God(s).

yes the belief on one and only God who is the most powerful and mighty. i believe on religion and will also like to believe on it, to me i think more that 90% people are believing on religion.

correct . For me Religion is belief and to worship God . Even have many types of Religion and  have different  beliefs their still have unity and  good respect to others and i know religion teach us to respect people and have a good moral that's why we have respect .

Religion is more like the traditions of a certain people and many people are trying to maintain the traditions of their ancestors.