what is the importance of religion on our life? Please see the details?

Question

What's god or Who's he?
Why do pre-philosophers based our existence with god? Has anybody thought today's religion..Christians, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism and others ....were created by someone or a group of people who tried to explain our misery and existence , and it eventually became a religion.
What is the importance of religion if it has more negative effects?...Think about what's going on the middle east...
Why does religion have a place in the government...for example, gay marriages, bio-technological advances ( cloning humans)....these things are being criticized because some politicians said the bible...or their religion doesn't allow it. Do you ever feel that religion is holding us back?

Answer 1

Yes, the development of religion was to help assign meaning to a life that seems random or cruel. If it helps people from despairing, that's a benefit. In many cases churches and other religious groups spearhead humanitarian aid and relief efforts around the world and in our inner cities. Any movement, whether political or religious, will have its conservatives trying to hold things or take things back, and the liberals trying to make positive changes. You can't generalize.

Answer 2

Imho, you have to separate 'organised' religion from true religion, which is essentially a spiritual phenomenon. All religions have been hijacked by people with an agenda.

I was once in a little Greek Orthodox church on top of a hill in Cyprus. I sat at the back (which wasn't far from the front - it was a small, round building) and over an hour or so watched a procession of people come in, cross themselves, light a candle, say a little prayer and leave. They were the poor people from the local village. That day, I learned what religion really is.

Answer 3

The Holy Bible Douay-Rheims Version

With Challoner Revisions 1749-52
1899 Edition of the John Murphy Company

IMPRIMATUR:
James Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore, September 1, 1899.

Pope Damasus assembled the first list of books of the Bible at the Roman Council in 382 A.D. He commissioned St. Jerome to translate the original Greek and Hebrew texts into Latin, which became known as the Latin Vulgate Bible and was declared by the Church to be the only authentic and official version, in 1546.

The DR New Testament was first published by the English College at Rheims in 1582 A.D. The DR Old Testament was first published by the English College at Douay in 1609 A.D. The first King James Version was not published until 1611. This online DRV contains all 73 books, including the seven Deutero-Canonical books (erroneously called Apocrypha by Protestants). These seven books were included in the 1611 KJV, but not in later KJV Bibles.

The whole Douay-Rheims Bible was revised and diligently compared with the Latin Vulgate by Bishop Richard Challoner in 1749-1752 A.D. The notes included in the text were written by Dr. Challoner.

The DR Bible was photographically reproduced from the 1899 edition of the John Murphy Company, Baltimore, Maryland, by Tan Books in 1971. Eventually, this edition was optically scanned to produce a large text file which this publisher used for creating this website, with the aid of text-processing software.

One important goal of this project was to preserve the original text "as is", without making any changes in the wording, because the original text had the Imprimatur of James Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore, dated Sept 1st 1899.

The text file was checked quite thoroughly by software written by the publisher for punctuation errors and verses out of order. The index was humanly checked for misspelled words and the corrections were made to the text. However, some spelling errors may still be present in the text. Many verses were out of order in the original file. These have been corrected.

Every effort was made to ensure that this online version is an exact match to the original printed version. No words were added or ommitted from the text, except for correcting errors caused by the scanning process. No words were rearranged. No verse numbers were changed, except in the case of Psalm 9.

Psalm 9 originally contained 21 verses and there were 2 versions of Psalm 10, numbering 1-18 and 1-8. This obviously caused a conflict, so it was decided to make the first Psalm 10 as the last part of Psalm 9 and renumber the verses 22-39. This retains the same numbering as all the Douay Rheims. Note, in the Protestant Bibles the numbering of Psalms 10 through 146 differs by one.

Answer 4

All religion is man made.Religions espouse set of principles by which its adherents are to live.however there is a difference between religion and spirituality.while most people try to impose their brand of religion on others,you can not impose spirituality on anyone.this is because spirituality is ones personal relationship with God.
whether religion has a place in governance our not depends on where you live.in Saudi Arabia,Iran and to some extent the USA under
Bush this is the case.In great Britain and Sweden this is not the case.

Answer 5

I think false religion alone is the shackle on humanity. So many groups or religions embrace hate and death, in the name of good. When will they wake from their delusion that is being passed from one generation to the next and never challenged by truly deep thinkers on the brink of understanding. The importance of good religion is evidenced in every good thing that happens on earth, so it is extremely important, and it is not holding us back (maybe in a human, material sense it seems to).
As we have seen, government and religion are like oil and water. You can shake them up together, but they separate every time.

Answer 6

Hindu faith is all approximately retaining environment . each and every Hindu competition is linked with a ritual ,nutrition merchandise,and public celebration . Plantain(banana) leaf and fruit are holy .Water and washing is obligatory .fireplace is quite in lots of cases a necessity. maximum animals and birds are autos (vahana s) of Hindu deities and so must be conserved. Hindu New 3 hundred and sixty 5 days is spoke of via tasting all varieties of tastes which contain bitter. Ganesha Chaturdhi enjoins Hindus to gathering of 21 categories of leaves, end result and vegetation.Even Hindu funerals of cremating the ineffective is environment friendly.

Answer 7

Religion was to bring together people in a oneness, of faith, hope, and charity amongst themselves(be good to fellow mankind and all Gods creatures), as well as God. To worship any God you must believe in his force that is within you. This is why religion was given to us for order, a systematic approach to belief. The word religious means consistancy. It only fails when people diversify their beliefs with trivial symbolic nonsense, idolotry and making it a oneness for themselves and only those of their kind, (like racial, creeds, or colors). When politics became prevelent in religion and no more free expressions of faith hope and charity was bestowed upon us religion failed. Well actually people failed at the true belief of God. Any religion that discriminates against another is an aggressor and is politically motivated to destroy for conquest. Unless you are humble you will not ever reach the grace of any God. To defend your beliefs is well and fine but to aggressively act upon another with hatred is not religion it is war. All religions have flaws, none are in perfect order and certainly not in todays world they are all lost. But belief in the Supreme Being is not ever lost in oneself lies the temple of God.

Answer 8

The develop of religion has always been and will always be about control of the masses. Not about any God or method of worship or form of ceremony. These are differentials only.

Answer 9

All religions are 'guidelines'. You can decide (and if common sense says so.....but you need to know a lot to depend on your common sense to begin with) if you can follow your own guidelines or go with the religious scriptures.

Religion is there to UNITE and not DIVIDE...If it is dividing us, re-think....re-think...

Do not blame religion...you have the option.....

Answer 10

religion plays no part in my life i like to have proof about things before i believe them