Does anyone else feel like the only two good things that ever came out of religion are the nice buildings and the holidays?
2006-09-16 05:03:46 · 26 answers · asked by Agne 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
There must be something else, surely..... I'll have to get back to you.
2006-09-16 05:39:58 · answer #1 · answered by Avondrow 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I got more out of religion than holidays. I never got any nice buildings. I got the courage to get off drugs and the void I used to have in my heart is now filled with the love of the Goddess. Blessed be.
2006-09-16 12:21:06 · answer #2 · answered by Maria Isabel 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Woa--how sad for you that you feel so much resentment. You are obviously a product of false religion because you mention the holidays and Jesus commanded us to celebrate only one thing--the memorial of his death. Keep looking. True religion has much more to offer than nice buildings. It holds the promise of everlasting life in a world ruled by God himself.
2006-09-16 12:13:47 · answer #3 · answered by Sparkle1 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
There are many other good things but they are usually the first to get ignored. If you notice most of the basics of all religions are the same: be decent and fair. But those are the same things that people learn to rationalise out of existence first.
Human nature, they call that.
2006-09-16 12:07:21 · answer #4 · answered by anna 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
how about the idea that the spirit or soul continues after death, that there is a higher purpose to excel for, a moral code, an explanation for those things that defy reality such as a baby surviving a fire consumed crash without so much as a scorch mark or bruise, and other examples of grace and divine intervention.
2006-09-16 12:41:06 · answer #5 · answered by fullmoonwolf4real 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are quite a few others, most philosophy, quite a bit of basic science (jesuits have probably advanced human knowledge more than any other group), and countless charitable organizations. It's just that these good things are balanced by the worst attrocities to ever have been committed be mankind, wars, torture, and genocide.
2006-09-16 12:07:54 · answer #6 · answered by juicy_wishun 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Actually yes.. I Have thought that since I was about 11 years old.
2 TV Programmes ( available on google video) have convinced me.
2006-09-16 12:32:19 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bunagalow came from Bangalore-India. Word Holi also comes from India.
2006-09-17 05:22:43 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
we need to turn them into museums. and the cloths which priests wear to frame and hang on the walls.
As long as this stupid religion activities in the world. There will be no shortage of blasts to kill each other.
Religion is a venom which every man has in there mouth. When ever there is a time , it will attack.
2006-09-16 12:12:25 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Some nice architecture and some carried over Pagan holidays. I can't think of anything else. Unless you wanted to include population control or something.
2006-09-16 12:06:19 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Some people have taken faith out of religion, they have something to cling to apart from their lives here on earth, good for them if that is what they believe, I personally do not believe but I am not bothered if others do.
2006-09-16 12:07:42 · answer #11 · answered by banditblue1200 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋