Please let me know if anyone agrees with my opinions about faith. Would you like to see an end to religion?

Question

Faith is a belief, science is fact. They do co-exist. I was brought up a christian and I'm certainly no scientist. However, I believe the bible is fictional. Back in the days when the bible was created it was entertainment and people made money from it and became wealthy, more and more people got involved in the 'industry'. People need entertainment and people need answers. In my opinion, Faith provides both of these and law/control. I don't believe the bible but I do believe that it has helped the world keep peace to an extent. Also, it has caused war and death and I do believe that the church and whatever religion you believe in definitely exploits its believers. Maybe there was a Jesus, I just think he was a very good story teller.

Regardless of whether you agree with my "opinion". The question was,...Would you like to see an end to religion?

Answer 1

yes, I think there should be no organized religion. It has been used to control the people of the world. It has caused fighting and death. It has cause Church/religious leaders to abuse their powers by abusing others. Look at what it is doing this very minute in the middle east. Look at what is has and is doing in the united states.

I think that there are people who are able to talk to god, and have written in books like the bible. But when it was translated by a rich greedy king is when the problem began with it's abuse. There are more accurately translated versions of the bible today. But is has still been used to abuse and persecute people in the name of God. God would not want people to do this to each other. It is like a parent telling his children to go ahead and go into the back yard and mame and kill each other. He just gave us free will. But where do other people get off using the words of god to abuse others. The use their own translated version of religion and God's word to abuse.

So yes I agree, religion should not exist. a persons own spirituality should be what is encouraged.

Answer 2

It's an interesting point of view. First though, if you look at how much science has changed and is continuing to change you can't really call "science" fact, you can call certain proven facts a fact, but not all of science falls into that category. Secondly, refering to "back in the day when the bible was created...", umm, it was written over several hundred years here by many different people, and this is a well recognised fact documented by science and history. As to if it is fictional or not, there are many other documents written at the same time as various parts of the bible talking about the same things as the bible talks about, giving some evidence to it being a true book. even down the fact of jesus life. some of these documents are written by powerful leaders of the time, who were not christian, and no vested money or power to be gained by controling people through the this faith. as to faith providing answers, if you have any of your own and you look at it closely you may see that it actually doesn't provide a lot of answers, rather, it covers the things you can't answer "faith is the belief of things not seen". and most people didn't make money from the bible when it was made, probaly the only people who make money from the bible are the current day owners of zondavan who own the rights to one of the best selling versions of the bible, the NIV.

As to an end of religion of all kinds....no, i wouldn't like to see all religion ended, for the simple reason that when people believe in a god of some form, their actions and life are guided by principles which come from outside of that person. a man that has no god has no one to asnwer to and no real external source of right or wrong, and is therefore free to do whatever he or she feels is right.

Answer 3

I'm not sure how "christian" you would call yourself , but there is historical fact to back up the Bible, and most of the bible was written over hundreds of years and by a variety of people. most of the new testament is historical accounts and letters. the bible was not written as one big story but as lots of smaller ones and i don't think that the authors knew that they were contributing to something bigger. if you have read the bible you would have known that a lot of the writers were killed for what they were writing so i hardly call that entertaining the public of making a living.
i agree with you faith does provide law and control, which is not always such a bad thing. however when a war has been caused and death in the name of a religion you have to question whether it was due to false teaching and often this is the case. however i must disagree with you here, I do not believe that the church and all religions exploits its believers, i think that some do but not all. it is usually clear which ones do.

Answer 4

Science is fact? Fact? How can you even say that? Science is faith jsut as much as Christianity and any other religion is faith. Evolution has to be faith because no-one can really prove it. Have you ever seen the process of evolution? Has anyone? The big bang theory where is the prove? No one was there to prove it.
You say that where broght up as a Christian yet you don't believe in the Bible, and you don't believe in faith in God. You are no Christian and you probabaly never made a commitment. Your parents maybe but you, you are just a confused person who needs answers to questions but you'll never find them in science.

Why does Christianity exploit its believers?

Answer 5

There's more than one faith besides Christianity and I don't accept the authority of the bible. My faith believes in ghosts and gods, but I don't expect everyone to believe them true. I know they're as unrealistic as talking snakes and flaming swords. ~.o

Overall I'd like to see science and faith blended in such a way that it keeps facts and won't deny important stuff like evolution. Yet I'd like the chance to still believe in the impossible, the unseen and the crazy, even if there's no physical proof for it. Even Einstein accepted God. I agree with you that science and faith can blend. I see science discovering all the strange and beautiful things our creator made. I also see it discovering HOW our creator made everything.

The bible was a book with heroes and evil doers, just like our movies of today. It was also a way to start discussions about morality and law. It was a way to keep real life heroes in the public mind though over time they were deified in some way. Remember - even the bible is based in some fact. It may not be 100% accurate, but some aspects of it, such as large floods (although not global ones) and and strangers teaching peace, are very likely based on reality.

Answer 6

I'm so sorry you feel that way.you were brought up as a christian?.Anyone can call themselves a christian,the true meaning of that means you have a personal relationship with Jesus.Not that you have a set of dogmatic beliefs,or that you go to church X many times a week,or that you do good works and show everyone how holy you are.for me religion is not important,what you or anyone else thinks of me is not important,but what my God and savior think of me and the way I try and live my life is.Chistianity means love peace joy patience kindness goodness faithfulness gentleness and self control(gal 5.22)and also I dont think Moses made much money from his books!!!

Answer 7

People talk about the religion because they are ingorant. They just dont know. I have been studying the bible for some time and i have came to the conclusion that this is the true religion also. Everything is supported by the bible. This is the only religion that is united in true worship. I just came back from a convention today and it seems like every different race of people were there and everyone had the same bond and the same goal in mind and that is to serve Jehovah. I planned to get baptized soon and this is going to be the most happiest day of my life.

Answer 8

Religion is something that holds people together, that allows them to face the uncertainties of life and survive.

Chances are, religion only appeared once the early humans had the time to spare, after hunting and gathering and ensuring survival. (I know that creationists will disagree, but this is just my opinion).

Once 'man' (as in human) managed to have more spare time, and started living together, he started thinking and realised that there was much he couldn't explain. And there arose a need to a supreme being who could help man explain what he could not understand, hence God. That doesn't mean that God does not exist, it just means that it took time for man to be aware of the concept.

Furthermore, God was more powerful than man, as as society grew, rules had to be put in place to ensure the smooth functioning, and to avoid most excesses. God was used, hence religions.

From starting to explain the unexplainable at the time, to helping control humans and allow us to live in relative peace, God has been around in man's mind for a long time. Nowadays, God helps man in providing comfort, in some justification or purpose to man's life; religions help.

On the other hand, with the destructive power in man's hands, the differences in religions take on a new turn. Now man uses these differences to justify atrocities. Religion is being used to cause problems.

What I think is that there's nothing wrong with religion, but the wrong thing is people focussing and highlighting differences in religions rather than focussing on the common message and basically live in relative peace.

What I would like to see is not an end to religion, but an end to people using religion as a divisive force.

Answer 9

It is certainly knowledge, parables that someone thought important enough to write down and keep safe for thousands of years.
After reading it, I agree with them. Much of what needs to be known has been concisely placed between its covers.
And that ' Do unto others as they would have them do unto you' is pure genius. Without it, would we really be human as opposed to animal ? Would we believe that things should be fair ?
However, I agree with you that it has become so mistreated by almost everyone throughout it's lifetime that second/third-hand it has become vulgar, uncouth and downright dangerous.
Read it first-hand, and don't listen to the idiots who talk about it, you don't have to believe in anything to read a book. You will see it still has some value, even if it's just for historical record. The Old Testament's value in my opinion is historical and a 'how-not-to' manual on life (with some small exceptions).

My edit to answer yours:
If it was all religions or none, then I would take none. Despite considering myself a Christian.
I would worry about where our system of justice came from though.

Answer 10

Religions are man made but the hope of God is within reach of everyone. While institutions and brick and mortar churches fall to the the ground and end up dust, there will always be a need to seek out and know a higher power. Science can not answer the basic question and has never answered it "where did it all begin from".