Religion : Noun:
1: a strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny; "he lost his faith but not his morality"
2: institution to express belief in a divine power; "he was raised in the Baptist religion"; "a member of his own faith contradicted him"
We all have that question in the back of our head .. What makes us tick... What keeps our heart pumping & our blood flowing. What happens in the after life or If there anything that happens at all.
The purpose of Religion is to not only teach Morals and guidelines to follow through life, but also to teach hope. Through Religion people feel more comfortable with the fact that one day we will all die, because they believe they are going to a better place.
The purpose of religion is that people can have hope and not just think when you die you rot.
I am sure people believe that religion is for achieving enlightenment, progressing to heaven or paradise, or to enable worshippers to seek help in the present life from their God or gods.
Others say that religion originated for the purpose of justifying and maintaining the power and authority of the rulers, the shamans and priests.
Religion is simply the way people organize themselves. To say I'm a baptist/catholic means you organize the way you worship God in that particular fashion. While some people need religion to get them on the right track, some eventually realize how imperfect religion is. Almost 100% of the time religion will eventually hurt you, judge you, or condemn you, why, because religion is man made and run by imperfect human beings. Some of which allow their pride and thirst for control to guide their decisions, most commonly justified by the religious rules and regulations of the religion.
Why some of us believe in a higher power, divine life & fate i can't help but wonder about the fraud that is in religion. I believe people need to have religion. I think religious organizations prey on the weak.
Organized religion is a trillion dollar industry that is a fraud-based, “non-profit”, government supported empire that makes more money than Wall Street while being even more criminal. They make massive profits with “legalized” mob-like: organized crime, grand larceny, money laundering, corruption and ponzi-like schemes. Religion is like a financial black-hole that sucks resources out of economies. It is a cancerous causing parasite on humanity. So this only raises the question is religion used to prey on the weak for monetary value.
religion has been the source and the cause for most of the conflicts in the world; most of the wars and atrocities In the world were in the name of religion. That makes one wonder what is the real purpose of religion. Religion creates so much hatred and fanaticism, causing people to lose all sense of humanity, where instead, the real purpose of religion is to make people more loving, tolerant and kind.
Some may argue the opposite that They empower the weak, which is the exact opposite of "preying" on them. If Christianity makes addicts into ex-addicts, prisoners into decent people, poor/needy people into economically independent people, and educates the uneducated (and there is fine statistical evidence that it does all of these things) then they are doing the exact opposite of "preying" on them, and you need to define your terms. A drug dealer, for example, "preys" on an addict. The lottery "preys" on the poor. And someone spouting that Christians "prey" on people by empowering them, well, it might be said that that is a good example of preying on the uneducated....
Who knows whats real where we came from, where were going or how we're suppose to live in between my only thought is that do you really think by dropping your hard earned money into a building fund do you think that's going to get you to heaven?
I myself do believe in God & I have faith that there is a higher power somewhere out there that keeps us ticking, does that mean I'm going join an organized religion and let them tell me how I should or shouldn't live my life. And pay them to do so. No! People will judge simply because they sin differently than you. However, it is my belief that because someone can stand on soap box an preach out of a book pointing out all my sins how does that make you a saint?! I don't know to be honest I'm torn. Although I question If there's a man in the sky that listens to us all mumbling our problems to him at the same time doesn't mean I don't have faith.
Why some believe they will be greeted by virgins in the afterlife & others belief u will be condemned to burn everlasting. Whos to say who's elaborate story is more credible than the next.
A person that has faith in nothing is very scary because if you fear no consequence of anything of course the evils they are capable of would out way someone who is scared to "go to hell" so to speak. That's like living in a city with no jail imagine the crime that would take place. But then on the same hand u have people that do terrible things and terrorize entire civilizations, species, races that don't believe the same things they do "in the name of religion."
Religion is & will remain to be one of the most powerful things to humans. Now if that's a good or a bad thing hell I don't know.
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