why must we have religion?

Question

no religion ,just one less thing for peolpe to fight about

Answer 1

Everyone needs something to believe in, and religion gives many people that.

Answer 2

People don't need religion. However, they do need philosophy; they do need a fundamental view of existence and values in order to live their lives. Unlike other living creatures, human beings are not born any values to guide their choices and actions. All the values they hold, they must aquire either by conscious decision or by unconscious acceptance.

To quote philosopher, Ayn Rand, "As a human being, you have no choice about the fact that you need a philosophy. Your only choice is whether you define you philosophy by a conscious, rational, disciplined process of thought and scrupulously logical deliberation--or let your subconscious accumulate a junk heap of unwarranted conclusions, false generalizations, undefined contradictions, undigested slogans, unidentified wishes, doubts and fears, thrown together by chance, but integrated by your subconscious into a kind of mongrel philosophy and fused into a single, solid weight: self-doubt, like a ball and chain in the place where your mind's wings should have grown."
- Philosophy, Who Needs It? http://gos.sbc.edu/r/rand.html

According to Rand, religion is an early form of philosophy which arose before humans could develop a scientific approach to the fundamental questions of life that philosophy must address. Today, religion is still the only form of philosophy most people know about. Furthermore, many people feel devotion to the religion they were taught as children since they associate that religion with the love they feel towards their parents. And while religion can have important values to teach and many worthwhile lessons to learn, it does not fulfill the human need for an objective comprehensive view of life, since it is based upon the pre-scientific and invalid approach of faith and the ancient destructive moral code of self-sacrifice.

Moreover, modern academic philosophy has, over the past two hundred years, become a mostly useless psuedo-science that does not deal with the questions and problems human beings actually face in life.

I recommend Ms. Rand's philosophy called Objectivism as a rational alternative to religion, academic philosophy, cynical hopelessness, and unserious self-imposed blindness. There is a tremendous amount of information on the internet about her writings and philosophy that you can investigate. I recommend starting out at the Ayn Rand Institute: http://www.aynrand.org. And if you become interested, you can look into purchasing her novels and/or non-fiction works. Another accessible introduction to her ethics is called, Loving Life: The Morality of Self-Interest and the Facts that Support It by Craig Biddle. This book is available at Amazon.com.

To give you a quick introduction to her philosophy, I will quote Ayn Rand again, "My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute."

Answer 3

Don't confuse religion with Faith

I am not big into semantics but the true is their is only one creator and His Son died on the cross for all of us.

Answer 4

People will fight over no religion. Even if there wasn't one they fight over butter side up or butter side down.

Answer 5

the reason we need religion is to keep the balance in our society
people need a reason for being.something to seek comfort in.and an explination of why life exists the way it does .we also need something to look forward to..

Answer 6

u r right abt religion................. wat the meanin of religion,people hv no idea of it nowdays.people got the gud reason to fight on the name of religion.but the real meanin of all religion is the way to get close to god.it contaons the way ...........the gud way to get more near to god n we the people added all the rabbish ,stupid ideas in it.and now we r fightnin at the name of religion.if we take the view of all noble books ...doesnt matter if its BIBBLE,QURAN OR GITA all hv same matter containin.but for us its hv different meanin.we shud respect every religion and every people.

Answer 7

religion is useless, morals and ethics are whats important. Without morals/ethics, the world would be in deep **** but without religion that wouldn't be the case.

Answer 8

Weak minded people need something to follow, because they are un-capable of making decisions based on their own rational thoughts.

Answer 9

that's right...why do people need to have hope for the future...believe in something bigger than themselves...because mankind sucks...you think wiping out religion will solve anything...wow...who is blinded by ignorance...

Answer 10

Gotta have something to believe in -- even an athiest has a belief