Religion must be accepted as a source of energy. It can be directed for our purposes, but only within limits that experience reveals. Is This the secret meaning of free will?
2006-10-27 08:45:12 · 14 answers · asked by just nate 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Religion is only as free as the followers faith allows. Religion is a copy of fate made by man at an attempt at getting closer to everything. Religion is one of the ultimate forms of we. Thus, in a world of opposite truths, religions are full of individualists.
Still, free will is then brought upon by faith, in a world of opposite truths. The religion dreams as the follower is able to manipulate the dreamer. So yes fate is free will, it is not that complicated.
2006-10-27 09:49:25 · answer #1 · answered by weism 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe that religion is a matter of your own personal belief. I am a Catholic and I honestly don't believe some of the things that the Church tries to tell me. But I do believe that religion is a positive energy that motivates people to do good by their beliefs in this troubled world, and I see no reason to condemn something like that. All in all, the rules set by religion are good guidelines to life and morality. Without the basic ideas presented by religion (and later developed into legal laws and constitutions) we would be nothing more than animals. Religion allows people to live by a rudimentry code of integrity while expressing their free will in the decisions they make.
2006-10-27 09:38:08 · answer #2 · answered by SkiBabe 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Free will is more powerful than religion. It is the reason we have every invention and ideal. Nothing is more powerful that a human being willing to stake their life on something. Some may say what about this weapon or that but if you think about it every weapon has countless human lives that have gone into discovering just the basic princibles. Religion is a motivation/propaganda tool to get a human, of their on free will, to follow and live by their rules. How many people died just figuring out how to make metal tools, paper, clothes, everything we have from speech, society, adn materials goods took an immense amount of human lives just to create and sustain till now. Religion is just reminents of out first form of government. But to answer your specific question Free Will is the engine and Religion is the steering.
2006-10-27 08:54:39 · answer #3 · answered by feargov 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Religion is totally different from free will.
Religion is the process of the mind to understand the illusions that is being created by the self to arrive to what is true.(It is not organization or group of people.)
Free will is the decision of the self(illusions) to do what he thinks is right or wrong for him.(right and wrong is subjective)
If the mind ls watchful and not being carried away by desires, then free will is absent, then the mind can see the false as false.
Seeing the false as false is seeing what is true.
Free will is subjective decision, it is always not related to what is true.
2006-10-27 13:07:39 · answer #4 · answered by ol's one 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Religion and free will" is the same thing as "fatboy slim", an oxymoron. If you are willing to accept believing in something supernatural, you have no will at all, for you have placed it into the hands of the people who preach that religion, and they are thinking instead of you. Just look what they are doing with the Muslims!
2006-10-27 09:20:07 · answer #5 · answered by Rozel 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Religion is an organized Philosophy, and the energy within is called faith. And the fire that allows the energy to flow is free will....
2006-10-27 08:51:11 · answer #6 · answered by Rochelle5969 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, although I think that you're right in some respects. The meaning of free will is that people can choose to do whatever they want whenever they want, and no deity will stop them. I mean you can't split atoms or fly, but you can do something totally wrong instead of the higher power making it impossible for you to do anything bad.
2006-10-27 08:50:06 · answer #7 · answered by Rat 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nice idea, but it has nothing to do with energy. Otherwise, my lust for Catherine Zeta-Jones could be deemed to be a source of energy; or my brother's wish not to do homework would be a source of energy. Where will it end! We'd have energy coming out of our eyeballs!
2006-10-27 08:48:55 · answer #8 · answered by John P 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Well, most of religion is a mental illness.
The source of energy is in yourself. Organized religion just clouds issues.
2006-10-27 08:47:31 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Free Will and Organized religion are like oil and water they don't mix
2006-10-27 08:47:56 · answer #10 · answered by The Druid 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋