some people say that people was created through the earth by evolution (from apes etc), some people say that god created earth, some people say it was adam and eve. no one really knows. some people say that when you die you just cease to exist, and some believe you go to another place. can it be true that you go somewhere else when your body stops? your body slows right down when you sleep and when you do not dream can you actually remember being asleep? no you can't. you remember lying down and closing your eyes and then you remember waking up but what about in between do you remember that? no one does!! that is where you have no existence to remember and can that same existence that has no memory or activity be the same as when you die, but that time you just never wake up. because people feared that there is just a nothing or a void, did they just make it up about an after life and a god waiting etc stop people being scared of a complete non existence when they die?
2006-10-23 23:35:54 · 36 answers · asked by anon2008 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Karl Marx said "Religion is the opiate for the masses".
2006-10-23 23:42:26 · answer #1 · answered by gchezmoi 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My Take Is That Jesus Really Did Exist, Was Able To Do A Few Slight Of Hand Tricks. Someone Told Somebody Who Told Someone Who Embilished His Feats. Word Got Around And Suddenly He's The Savior.
The Bible Is A Comic Book Based On Fact Turned Into Fiction.
That Being Said I Believe Most Of The Religions Spawned From A Single Tall Tale. And With Many Stories Told Year After Year Variations Emerge. Each Variation Bringing A Different Religion.
2006-10-23 23:43:23 · answer #2 · answered by TRAXIC 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe that religion first started as a way to try and explain the world around us - an earthquake or volcano would be a god being angry, for example. Even in the Bible it says that God showed Noah a rainbow to signify that such a flood would never happen again. That would be a way of understanding a rainbow before science understood the process of light and prisnms etc...
As to whether you go somewhere else when you die, I don't know, but I do believe that something happens. Our current knowledge of science states that energy cannot be created or destroyed, only transformed from one form to another. When someone dies, a certain "energy" goes out of them, apart from the lack of breathing etc... you can really tell they're dead and not just sleeping. That indefinable "energy" has to go somewhere - is it spiritual energy? Who knows!
2006-10-24 04:13:42 · answer #3 · answered by junkmonkey1983 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you look at most religions there are some links between them, maybe different names or different place but all the same, links, but i have no doubt that over time man/woman has added and changed certain parts of religious texts, most likely for a form of control.
When you die, we ascend. Someone wrote, in response to another Q that they had died and all they remembered was blackness, so there was nothing more, but how interesting though that that person was concious enough to know they remembered blackness. If they had stayed there a little longer i wonder if they would have seen more??
Re: Your dreams comment you seem to never have had a lucid dream, where when you dream you realise you are dreaming in your dream so hence you realise your asleep but dreaming. And i will add that lucid dreaming happens to many people.
2006-10-24 02:08:30 · answer #4 · answered by *JC* 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
nihilism is to do with the 'void' you are talking about. its basically The school of thought that the human mind cannot comprehend nothing. Its just too difficult for most people to imagine. I think religion in part comes form this, & also religion was started to keep people in check. Think about the basis for most religions, they are all about being essestially a good person. They incite respect etc etc. Unfortunately things haven't gone exactly this way. Plus, i though that evolution was a proven fact? I mean we have actually got the remains of our ancestors that we can see & look at. Not being religous but i guess more spiritual, I was under the impression that most modern day christians didn't take the bible as being literal anymore?
2006-10-24 00:15:07 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
this is a possible scenario but have spoke to lots of people near death and they don't seem to be afraid of death more upset at the effect their death will have on the ones left behind and yes I know some religions say there is a higher place but up to a point people are scared of death till its in their face and the fear goes some inner strength comes to the fore but what the harm in giving people a false hope to get through life when at the end it all becomes clear and maybe they are right but don't really think any of us have come back to say differently
2006-10-31 10:19:41 · answer #6 · answered by bobonumpty 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What about religion being invented so that people will put up with their hard life and the injustice of haves and have nots more easily. Most religions have as their message that after this life you will get your reward in heaven, especially if you don't rock the boat while in this life. If religion was invented for such a reason, it would seem that it was to keep the masses in line while they were being exploited, making them accept their bad lot in exchange for a better deal in the future. All this while the powerful get the good deal in this life.
2006-10-23 23:51:10 · answer #7 · answered by michaelsan 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Right well personally I believe that there is a place we all go to when we die. When people think of heaven all they see is big white pearly gates. But there are many different ideas of heaven. The view of heaven I like best is that, when we die our souls go back to the place in our lives when we were the most happy.
But also there is the view that we see our past loved ones or that we live in God's "big house". Most importantly we finally see the face of God.
I hope my opinions helped
2006-10-23 23:44:16 · answer #8 · answered by Grainne H 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We DO know for sure that we evolved. We have scientific fossil records to PROVE that we did. Religion (all religion) was made up by influential people many years ago to explain what was at the time unexplainable. Now we have scientific explanations for evolution, creation of the Solar System etc
Its about time we woke up and saw religion for the destructive force it really is
2006-10-24 02:33:58 · answer #9 · answered by Mick B 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No
I believe we were created, and not evolved. The thing with the church i believe is control more than fear of death. Books were left out of the bible, others changed. Look in history, if you even hinted at the earth not being the center of the universe you were charged with heresy and burned at the stake for one example. Sleep is nothing like death, your brain is still getting oxygen.
2006-10-23 23:43:47 · answer #10 · answered by No I Dont Like You 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that the comforting notion of immortality was one of the factors, but I believe the starting point was merely a primitive 'science' aimed at explaining the origin of the universe. The idea of god was the obvious and most simplistic explanation, and since there was no other obvious answer at the time the idea stuck.
2006-10-23 23:45:32 · answer #11 · answered by Eureka! 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋