Why practice organized religion? Really?

Answer 1

Think of it as a just one means to exercise your own inner spirituality. You can use any religion as a guide and an inspiration to feed from the others who practice with you. Each can have it's own beauty and truths if you study them. Do not get too caught up in the extremes or the twisted versions of any religion. Read the teachings and experience the good in each for yourself. It's really cool to explore.

Answer 2

Many people feel it is a good idea to practice organized religion becaue it can give a person a sense of belonging.when something is organized and people participate in it ......a person feels like they are working as an important part of a whole to accomplish a certain goal.I do not reccomend jumping into an organized religion based on just belonging.you can participate in all manner of organized beliefs and come away feeling a little more whole and a little more accepted but overall you need whats called a relationship with God(Through Jesus).A list of dos and don't is what so many people go after thinking that so long as they stay within those guidlines they will be ok.The only way the organization of things can help a person is if they use them to help them stay on track......but those rules can never replace relationship.they would just be empty.Which is why so many people shy away from organized religion...most who have experience with it say that it does not work....they would be correct.religion itself will not ever fill that God shaped void in anyone and it was never meant to.Those people went into religion looking for a formula much like lazy people go after a get rich quick scheme.They left God out of the eqaution and walked way wondering why it did not work.If you get to know the organizer practicing that which is organized would not be such a chore nor would it be so confusing.

Answer 3

I think people practice organized religion to feel like they are a part of something and to be around people that think the way they do. I think it makes some people feel "closer to God". I'm sure others feel they HAVE to practice an organized religion to "love God". I'm sure others dont know why they do... I think that all you need to do is love God within yourself and that is all that matters.....

Answer 4

Because science has never been able to explain everything. And the oddities of the natural world are too bizarre to continually attribute to random chance.

Think about all of the matter of the universe (billions of galaxies, each containing billions of stars and trillions of planets), not to mention the dark matter and dark energy compressed into a microscopic point at the big bang. If your mind can see that as an normal, everyday event, then you must be smoking something stronger than me!

Personally, whenever cosmologists and theoretical physicists come up with something new, a part of me thinks God is just playing tricks on us, keeping us guessing.

Answer 5

There are several reasons you might wish to do so:
- It makes you feel good.
- The camaraderie with the other congregants.
- To learn the moral principles which it teaches. If the religion has been around a long time, these principles are more likely to lead, if practiced, to a successful life.
- Your belief that it will buy you something, in an afterlife or otherwise.
As it happens, none of these works for me.

Answer 6

Religion is more than 2,000 years old. Religion is as old as man himself. Someone said, "If God did not exist, we would have to invent him." Primitive people worshipped the things they could see - grass, animals, the sun and the moon - the rising an setting of each (see Stonehenge.) But organized religion? That is up to you, if you are old enough to make your own decisions.

Answer 7

As a child, I strongly believed in God. As a teenager, I questioned his existence with rationalizations of science founded theories. I always ended up with more questions than answers. As an adult, I understand that science is just a study of our perceived reality. Even though I believe that our universe started with a BIG BANG, I have to keep questioning back past that point. And where did that come from? Even in string theories overlapping dimensions causing the BIG BANG - where did they come from?
There is only one answer. Something greater than you will ever understand created it. God? I guess that's why we practice what we do.

Answer 8

God demands that we worship him (Keep Holy the Sabbath) and the practice of the Jews and the new testament, Acts and Hebrews. Jesus founded a visible church on earth that continues to this day and he prescribed the proper worship due God which is the Eucharist in the Catholic Mass. "Do this in remembrance of me."

Answer 9

Because a human has the ability to have a precognitive thought,therefore knowing that he or she will die one day.A sense of self pride coupled with this fact is why so many people believe in something that is only a thought...tom science

Answer 10

Right or wrong, people need structure and to feel like there life means something.

Also, 2000+ years ago when it was made, it was a cheap way of policing people.