The world would be a million times better without any religion.
2006-10-02 03:20:35 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
To go further, people who believe in god and heaven are not religious, they are mentally ill and the progrem last night proved this. The problem aired last night was nothing short of unbelievable.
2006-10-02 03:57:28 · update #1
Absolutely correct. Religion sucks.
2006-10-02 03:22:24 · answer #1 · answered by Captain Trips 2 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Nah...Religion can do many things - it can hide abuses, it can justify destruction, it can proclaim nonsense as gospel truth and it can divide man from man. I believe it slows down our evolution, and I believe it can be a hiding place for evil human beings. But I also know that to some people, religion is a friend when the world is a friendless place. It reaches out and feeds people it has never met, and many millions of people live a better life because they feel they are in touch with some ultimate god or other.
Should it be allowed to hold a world power? Hell no. Should it be outlawed? I cannot say so, because it does both good and evil - just as every human being at some point does, religious or secular.
2006-10-02 03:28:39 · answer #2 · answered by mdfalco71 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
From what I heard on the radio this morning the Panorama programme is not quite as truthfull as it proports to be. There are a lot of Catholics up in arms and I suspect they may have a point.
I'm not religious and I think that religion in the wrong hands can do an awful lot of damage, but it can also do a lot of good. A lot of people get strength from it and it gives their life meaning. Personally I don't need it in mine and I don't believe in all that heaven stuff, but as long as they don't bother me I won't bother them.
If religion never existed all the bad people who use it as a reason to be violent now would just find another excuse.
John Lennon was a nice bloke but increadibly nieve.
2006-10-02 03:33:40 · answer #3 · answered by PETER F 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It confirms that some use religion to cloak much darker motives and sides to them. It is a minority in the Catholic church who spoil everything for everyone else.
All religions contain these people - not just the Catholic church, the Anglican church have the same problem.
I was baptized in the Church of Scotland, (Presbyterian) by a minister who tuned out to be a peodophille. He did nothing to me personally, but at least the C of S sorted him out...put him in front of the civil courts and he went to jail.
I think what damages the Catholic church and all other religions which hide this crime...is that fact they hide it, they do not deal with it. If they dealt with it the way the C of S dealt with it - they would get more respect from me.
But even though the C of S case did not effect me directly, as a result I have a deep distrust of organised religions. I am suspious of people who profess to be church going Christians.
I would say that I am a Christian, that is to say I belive that Jesus existed andI try to follow his the example and I am proud to be a godparent, But I think you can believe in God and Jesus without going to church.
Some of the kindest people I have met profess to be angnostics and athiests.
Religion is something private and personal.
2006-10-02 03:51:32 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
You are totally wrong, without the 10 commandments we would still be in the dark ages. The world is still full of greed and violence, Show me in the New Testament were it says 'kill your fellow man' 'steel his wife' 'rob that guy walking down the street because may have some money that you can use to buy drugs or booze'. You could look for ever and not find it. There is only one way to find it, that is in Man. If you think that it will be a better world without Christian faith, then you are sadly wrong. Every lover of Christ who excepts Him as their savour, will not kill or rob,and will follow the commandments were humanly possible, many cannot, many deviate from the bible, whole churches. Until we learn to live by God's rules the world will never change
2006-10-02 03:52:39 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
And the worst is the cult of Science. What other religion in the world is more morally bankrupt than the scientific community? Christians and Muslims didn't create multiple ways to destroy every living thing on the planet...But we do owe the Atomic Bomb, Nerve gas and Biological horrors to the Cult of Science.
Hail Eris! All Hail Discordia!
2006-10-02 03:33:49 · answer #6 · answered by Hatir Ba Loon 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Organised religion is of course open to corruption.
Those allegations are not new that letter telling bishops to handle any abuse internally is on the internet and you can clearly see the popes signature when he was cardinal in charge.
He is directly involved in the coverup and should be prosected..it's disgusting.
I do not believe religion should be abolished..millions of people find solace in it.All religions should be audited and criminals prosecuted why should they get a free pass in society?
2006-10-02 04:03:33 · answer #7 · answered by Dix a Dublin 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If it wasnt religion it would be something else - football teams, race, hair colour.
It is because we are human that we fight - if we werent the most aggressive species we would have been out evolved. We struggle with our aggressions vs our need to co-exist - we are only successful as a community (aka ants).
So religions are the latest teams
2006-10-02 03:42:22 · answer #8 · answered by dust 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it rather is an common one. If the international gets too warm, we've shown that we can stay to tell the story it because of the fact the "Cradles of Civilization" have been in warm, dry factors. If the international gets chilly, then we've already shown that we can face up to ice a while, and that's with none "extreme" technologies. If the international gets overpopulated, it is going to, out of necessity, stability itself out. i don't think of we would desire to tension approximately surviving the subsequent a hundred years. the genuine question is the thank you to we shop the subsequent a hundred years from starting to be the subsequent darkish Age.
2016-10-15 10:39:52 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you're referring to organized religion, I couldn't agree more. The history of most organized religions is one of intolerance for other beliefs and the quest for power. The Pope's recent statement about how Islam was evil because it advocated spreading its beliefs "by the sword" was absolutely hysterical given that the Roman Catholic church spent most of the first 1600 years of its existence attempting to systematically obliterate groups that disagreed with its version of "the truth."
2006-10-02 03:38:45 · answer #10 · answered by jclog 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I have to disagree with you.
People who take their religion seriously are usually good kind people.
These priests who were talked about on TV last night are not true to their religion, any Catholic priest who lives their life according to the bible would never do anything so awful.
And as for people who have faith been mentally ill- are you trying to say that we all came from nowhere?
(i am not a Catholic- thank God)
2006-10-02 05:00:16 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋