2006-11-26 04:54:38 · 29 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Exactly! I ask that question all the time!
We don't need religion at all. But there are some of us like you and me who know what's right and wrong, and we live by certain principals and we are smart and use emotional intelligence to rationalize our thought processes. We are ethical people. A lot of people out there are not like us. So they do need some kind of religion to put them on the right path cause they are weak! these are not very smart people. They hardly think and that's why they are not ethical either.
2006-11-26 04:57:49 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Religion is not a system of behavior. It is an expression of belief about the nature of humanity and its purpose. It is a association of people who think that life exists for a particular reason. It is a way people express their convictions about ideas for which their is no possible explanation other than personal belief.
Belief is the behavior, and religion is how it is organized. Politics is a form of religion. A congregation of people based upon a commonly held set of beliefs through out the group is a religious order. In a monotheist system like Christianity, the devine is God and unexplainable. In political systems, God is man and his symbol is Money.
Religion is where your time goes regardless of how much integrity you have or do not have. By definition, truth is not relative.
2006-11-26 05:07:02 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The problem is who defines morality and and the integrity of adhering to it. I often hear people claim they don't need God and that they take responsiblity for their own lives. I don't see how denying the existance of moral standards makes that possible,or in what manner they take responsiblity. I think belief in God is logical and one of the only two possibilities. Without God self awareness and existance has little meaning or value. If man is nothing more than an animal then there would be no difference between killing a person and killing a chicken. I find that really hard to swallow. The person that is not the chicken.
2006-11-26 04:59:58 · answer #3 · answered by Edward J 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Many, but not all, people have a psychological need for religion. They need something to fall back on (not that that's necessarily bad). Regardless of what kind of life they lead, they feel religion gives them a purpose.
2006-11-26 05:00:09 · answer #4 · answered by The Doctor 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People need religion for it is much more than integrity, it is acknowledgement of man as a spirit. With society having such emphasis these days on the physical aspect of man, and treating his ills with drugs for chemical imbalances, treating his depressions and upsets with more drugs, things are moving away from the spirit and into the realm of the brain. We need to never ever lose sight of our spirituality, and to find the ways to treat man as a spirit and to ease his travails by making him more able spiritually. Man is basically good, and with increased spirituality, comes integrity, goodness and love. (Notwithstanding the zealots who use religion as an excuse to kill. That is just a preverted religion and is likely meant to destroy the concept of true religion.)
2006-11-26 05:01:47 · answer #5 · answered by mch 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Some people believe there is more to reality than what we see, hear, smell and touch. Some people also believe they have found answers to this more metaphysical aspect of life in an organized religion.
If they live their lives with integrity, why should it bother you?
2006-11-26 04:57:06 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
:Steadfast adherence to a strict moral or ethical code.
The state of being unimpaired; soundness.
The quality or condition of being whole or undivided; completeness.
A: Religion is the usual provider of many peoples' moral code.
B: V. few people are unimpared and entirely sound.
C: Again as w. computers, garbage in, garbage out.
2006-11-26 05:00:59 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's comfortable. It's comforting. It's the religion gramdma had. It makes us feel like the human race means something. It makes us go to church and have fellowship with other simple-minded people. You got a problem with that?
2006-11-26 04:58:15 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
unlike other religions islam is needed in ones life because it is the way of life. it helps u with every single problem and issues u might have in ur life. it teaches u everything step by step. i dont know about other religions but islam is definitely needed in ones life. u just have to learn the truth about it.
2006-11-26 04:58:09 · answer #9 · answered by covered beauty 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
AMEN Kaye!!!
Without God, there is no moral code. People say there is , but according to whom??? Who gets to decide what is right and wrong? Who is it that is so great among us that they get to decide and tell everyone else exactly what 'integrity' entails? What seems moral and good to one person is not so to another- without religion. I have met many believers and nonbelievers alike that live by their own standards of morality and it is so varied with so many justifications and excuses between them. There is but one God, with ONE set of never changing standards and instruction- His law never changes and His standards of morality and integrity never change- and since it is He who created us, it is He that has the authority to make these laws and standards.
Without Him, there is anarchy. Everyone can do good according to what is good in their own eyes- but that is not what makes it good.
2006-11-26 05:04:57 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋