Topic: Why do people believe in religion? - page 8. (Read 19593 times)

On the contrary, religions kindle wars among themselves and very often they are mass hemorrhages ostensibly for the benefit of their religion.

I believe God is one and his religion

Because religion loves peace

If there is no religion in this world there will be world war 3

Because the truth is there, you cannot unsee that. Like ants cannot see us we cannot see God. But no-one said it was impossible.

A sought-after letter written by Charles Darwin in 1880 has resurfaced after being in the possession of a private owner for decades. In the letter, Darwin responds to a young man who asks him if he believed in the New Testament. Here’s Darwin’s reply:

Dear Sir,

I am sorry to have to inform you that I do not believe in the Bible as a divine revelation & therefore not in Jesus Christ as the son of God.

In his later years, Charles Darwin walked his wife to church each Sunday but remained outside while the service took place before walking his wife back home.

As is the case in the “bible belt” of the USA today, in the mid 19th century atheists were still persecuted by the then religious majority so while Darwin enacted his apparent agnosticism/atheism by shunning religion - his earlier statements on the subject fail to reveal his apparent disdain for religion and “the gods”..Not wise to say your not religious when he was young     1800s possible death

I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created the Ichneumonidæ [a parasite who eats its host alive from the inside] with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of caterpillars, or that a cat should play with mice."

Elsewhere in his letters he described how he could not "overlook the difficulty from the immense amount of suffering through the world". Similarly in another letter he suggested it seemed "more satisfactory to look at the immense amount of pain and suffering in this world, as the inevitable result of the natural sequence of events, i.e. general laws, rather than from the direct intervention of God".


Even i was religious when i was a child..I was a believer ..
I also believed father Christmas ..
And the bogey man ..< get tormented by the elders WOOOOO bogey man   .. .
Ghost and spirits < Because of the bible..

Uk full of protestants and Catholics    all schools teach us religion ..
We grow up and know it's all like father Christmas ..

He was an atheist ..

DARWIN  The DADDY....

You might be mistaking religion with cults (including secular ones like feminism or communism).

Religion is first and foremost a belief system, that instills values in people, therefore shaping their culture.

The guy above you got it right. He is making his own decision, yet unlike you has advantage of falling back on moral compass that can guide him whenever he feels lost. And everybody was at one time or another lost.

Your brain is slave to your body, it doesnt tell to leave married woman alone or not to steal. Values that you promised to protect do.

Bible is specific in this case as it sees life of every individual as long struggle with temptation, promising rewards to those, who are strong enough to rise above mere animals with enlarged brain case.


- Then why dont you understand life? Did you fail your science exam? Good, that old scholars of Greece and Rome werent dependant on public education system then.

"Darwin is the daddy"

Mr. Charles Darwin was anglican christian while he developed his theory. Get that through that thick skull of yours.

The belief that we can understand life through science alone is like trying to understand a desert by counting every single stone and pebble in it. WHY?.

understand life through science..How else will we understand life   make shit up?.. < .RELIGION.

Science is the only way to understand life..

by counting every single stone and pebble.
Darwin is the daddy ..

no religion doesn't do any of that. religion is based on how a certain someone a teaching and a group or congregation decides to follow that person. if you want to make up for your mistakes, do it on your own accord, you don't need a religion to do that. respect and do what you know is right as an adult.

I provided data and numbers for you, both collected by secularists - something you should be able to understand. I can source far more. You in return gave me your subjective beliefs and feelings. Oh, and wished me bon voyage to Islamic State, least I forget.

The fact is, that atheists are dying out. Even in premodern times, you wouldnt be able to find a single culture that thrived and survived on basis of rationalism alone.

Indeed, it is time to stop. Now, I will pray, that you will find a way for yourself. Way, that doesnt lead to extinction, death and more hatred. Atheism is always only hair away from individual nihilism.

Good luck.

P.S.: Professor of University of London, self-ascribed agnostic, Eric Kaufmann wrote a thesis on subject of long term perspective of atheism and ongoing desecularization of the World. Before you make any further remarks. Educate yourself, please.

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/shall-the-religious-inherit-the-earth-by-eric-kaufmann-1939316.html

it's time to stop. anyway, everyone stayed at his own opinion.

p.s. it's strange that u are presenting a modern dag based coin in ur profile and simultaneously defending nonsense...

I thought we were talking about societal benefits? Are you now interested in the text of scripture all of sudden or did your education fail to provide you with more arguments?



The bible represents, in quite mundane, easy to understand way a natural order and couple of rules, that individual mindful of balance in nature ought to respect for common good. Even atheist like yourself greatly benefits from its presence, as it provides stability, moral compass for both elites and masses. Preventing Orwellian animal farm or Mad Max conditions from coming true.

You know so much about numbers, but so little about human condition.

Despite the fact that I have much bigger problems that need their solution very urgently or correction of your mistakes that humanity makes a lot of this disruptions begin to argue about religion and the influence of a man of such people who really believe in God. Something very actively began to discuss this and muddying religion.

ROFL...

You mean the English language, right? 

bold illiterate lie...

tell me, what place in science does take the circumcised jew, supposedly was born of a virgin, whose corpse came to life and became one of the first astronauts by a vertical independent take-off into the stratosphere?

or a bearded prophet who split the moon in two and flew on a winged steed.

do you really believe in this absurd nonsense?

Because I want to free my sould and drain all the sin inside me. With religion, this is much easier to get rid of all the sin.

And do you have proof or are you reliant on your personal belief and biblical metaphors?

If the horse is dead, please, explain this projection from United Nations:



Religion is complementary to science. As both describe natural phenomena in their own way. People, who rely on science alone are in the place of fools, who try to understand desert by counting all the sand in it.

I pray, that once you grow old and wise enough to understand that.

so what? this must now be an indisputable truth?

science grew out of religion as a flower grows out of manure. the nonsense of ancient books contradicts the modern scientific picture of the world and common sense in general.

the horse has long died, but u are all trying to saddle it.

Are you sure, you are not mirroring something?

It was you, who told me, an evangelical to go to Islamic state territory, if I disagree with your point of view. I said, I forgive you for your ignorance.

One difference between various secular cults, that you atheits adhere to and proper religions is that the latter actually dignify human beings. Admit them to be born with soul and free will. Work in essence as moral compass. Another difference is, that atheists are targeted by natural selection since they often fail to have any offspring at all. Global share of nonbelievers is steadily dropping. What kind of societal benefit brings extinction?

If you indeed have PhD as you claimed, then you know, that entire basis of your field was founded by religous scholars. Obviously as science merely tries to describe natural phenomena, that was already given name and meaning. Science can therefore go on even without atheists, since it was here long before them and conception of "disbelief". It is not in opposition to religion, it is its complement. On the other hand science cant go on without faith, as it loses its meaning and becomes merely tool of those in power.

the attribute of each cult is to hate and persecute dissenters. remember the inquisition in the past or the shariah countries now? why should I have a different attitude to adherents of cults?

the example with totalitarianism is very unfortunate. since u assume only two alternatives: religion or all the worst anti-religious. forgetting at the same time that there are many positive examples (like ordinary secular states).

1. I am calling bullshit, not the least, because of your abysmal reasoning.

2. And what is its purpose then, dear Phd?

3. I forgive you. Otherwise, I would have to send you to atheist paradise in North Korea  or is Third Reich more akin to your taste? Anyhow, how does it feel, when others treat you like a subhuman for your beliefs, dear Phd? Is that where education and reason brought you? I doubt it.