What is religion anyway? Any why are there so many choices?

Answer 1

It is a way of explaining a person's relationship with the spiritual aspect of life. There are so many choices because so many ways of explaining it have arisen all over the world ever since people started to develop religious thought. There are so many ways of looking at this relationship, that so many different religions were developed.

Answer 2

Religion is the essence of all evil. It is what tears people apart. Only when people realize that most religions are more similar than different can the world have a chance at peace. Almost all conflicts in this world can be traced back to "two thousand years ago your ancestors stole the Holy City from my ancestors, prepare for war!" There are so many choices, and so many gods, but there is only one One, and that can only be found and achieved when all dogmas are released. So ultimately, it is not religion that inspires hatred, rather dogma.

Answer 3

Religion is nothing more than a way to exploit the ignorance of people through false hope and false ideas backed with false prayers and crazy rituals

Answer 4

religion is the belief structure you make your moral judgements based on. There are many choices because man cannot agree on what to worship or whom?

Good Luck and God Bless!!

Answer 5

Religion means Re legeare : it means re union with your original source. So when you do anything which makes you feel yourself is Religion. For Example: Zakir Hussain , the famous tablist. For him tabla is his religion. Amitabh bachan For him acting is his religion.
Find in what you find bliss and that will be your religion.

Answer 6

Religion, broadly, way of life or belief based on a person's ultimate relation to the universe or a god or gods. In this sense such diverse systems as Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Judaism, and Shinto may be considered religions. In a more commonly accepted sense, however, the term religion refers to faith in a divinely created order of the world, agreement with which is the means of salvation for a community and thus for each individual who has a role in that community. In this sense the term applies principally to such systems as Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, which involve faith in a creed, obedience to a moral code set down in sacred Scriptures, and participation in a cult. In its most specific sense the term refers to the way of life of a monastic or religious order.

It is impossible to find a satisfactory definition of religion or a realistic way of classifying the various kinds of so-called religion because of the important differences of function among the various systems known. A general survey and comparison of religions would therefore be misleading if the material to be examined were all assumed to be of the same kind. It is a historical accident that the earliest European students of foreign or primitive cultures used the term religion for phenomena of which they had only a rudimentary knowledge. They jumped to the conclusion that other cultures must have institutions of the same type and function as Christianity or Judaism in their own culture. This premature assumption is at the root of much of the confusion.

In light of more advanced knowledge, a survey of religions must therefore begin by restricting the term religion to those institutions for which it has customarily been used—Judaism and its descendants, Christianity, and Islam. If this restriction is somewhat arbitrary, it nevertheless has the merit of giving the word a clearer meaning by confining it to institutions that have much in common.

The next step must be to examine the so-called religions found in other cultures, noting the degree to which they correspond to the term in its restricted sense and then employing new ways of classifying them when no correspondence is to be found. Such correspondence is not a matter of doctrinal agreement or disagreement, for example, as to ideas of God or of moral conduct. It is a matter of deciding whether institutions that have been called religions have the same function in their various cultural contexts that such an institution as Christianity has in the West.

Another difficulty that appears in attempting a survey of religions from the historical standpoint is the customary notion of so-called primitive religion as the earliest and most undeveloped form of human religious feeling and practice. It is not safe, however, to assume that non-Western forms of culture lacking technological development are necessarily representative of the first gropings of the human race towards spiritual insights. The more that is known about different types of culture, the more difficult it becomes to fit them into any simple evolutionary scheme or even into any clear system of types.

For present purposes the treatment of religion will be concerned with a comparative account of three principal forms of consciousness about the human relationship to the universe or Deity, one found in the primitive religions, one in the religions as commonly defined, and the third in the various oriental systems of belief and practice that may be termed “ways of liberation”. Social and moral rituals lie outside the scope of this article.

Answer 7

religion is the darkness created by the followers, which one has to transcend to find "the truth", the light.

There are so many choices as there are so many who want to control others and not themselves.

Answer 8

Religion is the practical aspect of reality. And reality is the philosophical aspect of religion.

Answer 9

so many choices happen b/c someone took the religion of Christianity and decided it wasn't good enough. it was too simple. too real. too good. so they went and made up their own rules. their own idols. their own gods. it's sad really.

Answer 10

realign is something controlling u ,either your d**k or ur a**s or ur spirit

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