Why so many problems among Religions?

Answer 1

Faith and religion are often confused. Faith is from the heart, it is your individual celebration of spirituality. While religion is the manifestation of that faith as dictated by the group.

Religions determine what appearance that faith must take on and what Laws the adherents must follow in order for their faith to be considered valid. Religion worships the Laws of Faith above faith it’s self. Followers are trained to believe that if one is not like the group, they are wrong. Therefore, you are either with us or against us, you are either good or evil, you are either saved or damned.

Religion tends to breed conformity, and this conformity propagates contempt for any non conforming behavior. Religion breeds an obedience to an orthodoxy of political beliefs and Laws that is adhered to in Stepford Wife like conformity, and those who don’t are damned.

Don’t lose your faith because of religion.

Answer 2

The problem isn't a squabble over morality. Generally speaking, most of the world's major religions agree on what is "moral" behavior: don't kill, don't steal, don't commit adultery, don't lie, etc. They also agree on what a person's ethics should be: pray, give to the poor and needy, be kind to others, etc.

The point of contention among all religions is who they say "God" is. To the Jew, he is G*d or Yahweh-Elohim; to the Muslim, he is Allah (pbuh); to the Christian, he is Father/Son/Holy Spirit; to the Hindu, he is Vishnu and a multitude of lesser gods and goddesses; to the Buddhist, he is the supreme idea/not real or relevant as a being/but if ever acknowledged may be the Brahman, a diety borrowed from Hinduism; to the spiritist, he is thousands of good/evil spirits, to the Wiccan, god is Mother Nature and the multitude of spirits embodied in nature, and so on and so on.

Most religions describe God in human terms; he/she is either a single entity or he/she is many gods and goddesses, just as we can only perceive or one person or many persons. Only one religion transcends a finite conception of God, and that is Christianity. Christianity teaches that God is singular and plural at the same time, three persons yet one God, as described in the old and new testaments. Christianity teaches that the essence of God transcends our one dimension of time and three dimensions of space. God is "one" and "many" at the same time because he exists within and outside of our universe.

In any case, the "problems" arise when religious adherents become elitist. They don't see themselves as helpless human beings in need of God's mercy or deliverers of his goodness to the world. They see themselves as members of an elite group, looking down their noses at everyone else. At the very least, people simply feel contempt toward the "infidel". At the very worst, they kill other people who believe differently. But for all the killing done by the "religious" in the past century, no group has slaughtered more human beings in the name of non-religion than atheists. The hundreds of millions murdered by the atheist regimes of China, the former Soviet Union, and Cambodia are staggering. In those countries, you stood a better chance of being executed if you believed in any God at all, not just the "wrong" one.

Answer 3

Because it's the followers of a religion who are at fault - not the religion.

Answer 4

religion is a complicated thing, it effects youre entire life, if youre wrong about youre religion, then youre life is wrong, youre wrong, and everything you stand for is a lie. Is it now any wonder why people fight so much when it comes to religion?

Answer 5

I want to vote on best answer now, Clutch , you nailed it.

Answer 6

Each group and each person has their own belief.