If religion isn't needed then why is it here and cannot be erased with logic?

Question

When thou is confused, one does not know what one does. So won't YOU tell me what YOU know?

Answer 1

Many people are concluding that religion isn't needed. It's a slow processes.

I personally don't believe religion is necessary for anything, but I am still religious.

Answer 2

Dear Exousia Skotos,
Its illogical to say that there is no need of religion. If you buy any device, take for example VCD player, you get an instruction manual along with it. It gives you instructions that to play, insert the cassette and press the play button, to fast forward, press the ff button, don't drop it from height, it may get damage, don't immerse it in water, it may get spoil. If you allow me to call human body a machine, I would say that it is the most complicated machine on the face of the earth. Don't you think that it requires an instruction manual? The Holy Quran is the last and final revealation of God, revealed to the last and final prohet Muhammad (SAW). The do's and dont's are mentioned in this book.
You say that we don't need religion. I ask you that then who is gonna decide that what is wrong and what is right? The best person to decide brother is the Creator sister. And I challenge you to point out a single teaching of Islam which is against humanity as a whole, single. Today, Islam is the fastest growing religion cause it has the solution to the problems of mankind.
I hope it helps!!

Answer 3

Whoa, I know or think I know more than you think. And I bet some, you really don't want to hear about because it would be offensive to your belief. I really don't know why religion is still here, I guess some people cannot accept that their not going to live forever or that live will end. So why don't you tell me what makes you so sure religious deities do exist, at least that way I would have a point to start from.

Answer 4

I think there's three possibilities why people don't resond to logical explanations against religion...

1. They're either mis-informed, or intentionally avoid, or psychologically in denial or view as evil (the work of the devil, etc) any information that goes counter to their notions of God.

2. They fully understand the illogical nature of religion but decide to take an illogical "leap of faith" and simply decide that they're going to believe in God irrespective of logical evidence.

3. They have come to the conclusion that in a pragmatic sense, religion is more beneficial to humanity than detrimental and therefore is an activity worth pursuing dispite the illogic of it all.

Answer 5

It's in here because the people who talk about it seem to have a need (and in many cases a compulsion) to do so. It's something they do for their own gratification, not for the sake of others. It can and often is refuted with logic, but a lot of people just can't be bothered arguing with every annoying bible-thumper who thinks that Yahoo Answers is their own personal pulpit.

Answer 6

Because religion is a fallback when logic cannot work its way out. Don't need religion to understand gravity because logic can handle it pretty well. But where logic falls religion is an easy way to find answer. How life started? God.

Answer 7

Humans have a need for ritual and a feeling for belonging to something greater. Not all people fill this need through religion, but many do.

I recommend the writings of grumpy dead German philosopher Ludwig Feuerbach to you--he makes a convincing case for the human creation of religion as a natural reaction to the world around them (e.g., worshipping the sun for giving light, etc).

Answer 8

Religion is a product of a psyche requiring solace. They are products of a time. Mostly they are relevant to their time. Their continuity with evolution is a contradiction. They are needed but new ones must keep coming all the time or the existing ones should continue to evolve.

Answer 9

I know I have a great, supportive family & friends base. I also know there are some days when I feel I have no one who will understand what is bothering me. Faith is what keeps me going when I feel like I cannot go, lifts me up on the good days even more & so much more than a few words can express. This is what I know.

Answer 10

the belief has NOTHING to do with logic. it was embedded in humankind centuries ago when people did not have any other explanation to what was happening around them. now it is impossible to erase it away.
it remind me the phrase: " you can take an African out of the bush, but you can't take the bush out of the Africans"