In order to be religious you have to only hold your views right and every one elses wrong, true or false?

Question

and if its true, then how does that promote cooperation within society?

Answer 1

I don't believe that that is necessarily true but it does seem to be the way that people like to act.

Answer 2

I am very tired but feel compelled to answer this. What you say about being religious is generally accepted. You can religiously smoke pot and believe that it is completely OK and this may be for you. Practicing and doing things religiously is common practice, that's why many people of faith pray or go to church on Sunday (or when ever they attend).

Whether or not it promote cooperation within society is a matter of social science. If it is accepted widely in a community it is of benefit to that particular community. But in a world community it has shone to promote disharmony. The best example I can point out is the war in the middle east.

In a perfect world one religion (God based or not) followed by each and every person would promote good for all. But this is not a perfect world and we as human beings are not perfect and differences will always abound. Therefore in my opinion cooperation on a global scale is improbable if not impossible.

Religion has played a vital part in history to unite people of like minds but it also has coerced people into submission against their will. In this line, it is forced cooperation much like a government forcing it's citizens to follow the laws.

After saying all this rubbish I guess the simple thing to say is religion is a social product that either gains cooperation by submission or by aggression and there will always be those that disagree.

Answer 3

True and false. Most "religious" people don't think they are the only ones right and everyone else is wrong. If so, most are too chicken to say anything about it. Most moderate Catholics, Hindus, Buddhists, and even Muslims think that others outside of their religion can be saved; just harder I guess.

But it is true in the sense that if you truly believe you have found the true religion, that you would believe this, in some faiths anyway. The Catholic church for centuries has declared that there is no salvation outside of their church(they can't get away with that today in this PC society)The Koran clearly states a Christian will not enter paradise("a man is damned if he says Allah begat a son" which over 1 billion people profess about Jesus Christ, the son of God) And a true born again Christian MUST admit that he was lost, on his way to hell, and that Jesus Christ, by them placing their faith in Him ALONE, saved them from hell. Jesus Christ said, "broad is the way that leadeth to destruction and many there be which go in thereat" and that "I am the way the truth and the life, NO MAN cometh unto the father but BY ME. So we see Jesus Christ, according to HIMSELF, was a "narrow minded bigot" as far as others "getting there their own way"

Answer 4

It doesn't promote cooperation at all! Much better to be spiritual, and not worry about being religious.

Cause one is from the heart and soul, the other means just to do things repititiously, or religiously.

It means more than that, but I think you get it. I can tell you are a very smart person capable of thinking for themself.

Answer 5

Cooperation is not the most important objective.
Truth is. The first thing that you must accept is the fact that there is such a thing as right and wrong.

If there are 5 mechanics working on your car, but 3 of them "think" that they know what they are doing, but in reality, they are actually damaging the vehicle; no matter how sincerely they believe they are helping, the ONLY way they can help is to listen to the 2 that ACTUALLY know what they are doing. Cooperation only is beneficial if everyone is actually DOING the RIGHT THING.

Answer 6

Yes, that is true. It doesn't promote cooperation within society, but rather divides it, and is always pitting group against group even within itself.

Answer 7

I disagree. The purpose of a religion is to guide us our way in our life. Not to show everyone you have a right views and the others who are in different religon are wrong in their views. So regardless of what religion you have, it all teaches the same principle, to attain peace and harmony in world. If everyone practise their religion to promote peace around the world, not condemning or critisizing on other religion, now that's what i call being religious person.

Cheers!:)

Answer 8

True. Religion wants to run society not cooperate.

Answer 9

This is quite false! The sad thing is that people don't know it. I am very religious, and I believe that we are all on different paths to the same end. as long as your faith and spirituality are positive, I am in full support of your religion. I think that "one true religion" idea is a load of crap from the church from long ago and it is quite possibly one of the most narrow-minded and hate inspiring ideas Ive ever come across.
People will view God as it relates to them. There is no Universal Truth when it comes to God, except that we are all connected, and should support each other in our personal journeys to get closer to God.

Bright Blessings!

Answer 10

Knowing a religious worldview to be correct doesn't require that therefore everyone else's views must be wrong. ... unless you assume that everyone must be in disagreement with much of that worldview's claims. If a religious worldview is true, its truthfulness stands independently of whether or not people acknowledge it to be the source of moral knowledge that they really do in fact have. Both believers and nonbelievers in Christianity, for example, tend to agree that unwarranted killing of an innocent person is wrong.

But we might reverse the question and ask, how can a society expect to survive if it outright denies and fights against the idea of a foundational source of Moral Truth? People don't want to believe that there is such a thing as Moral Truth to which people, regardless of their beliefs, can be held accountable to. A country that loathes its own history enough to want to wipe out any symbolic reference to the religious worldview that helped bring its sense of moral judgement into being simply forfeits a common identity... society splinters into fragments of disagreement and partisan rhetoric. Already in the U.S. and in the rest of the western world, Secularism has so weakened the confident moral resolve of its citizens such that those in the world who have a religiously Islamic view of the world are able to manipulate those politically correct sensitivities to take over our cultures by force.

Secularism doesn't have the guts or the moral fortitude to stand against that kind of extremism. America needs to remember its spiritual roots if it is to find the courage to stand against that destructive influence rather than allow it to ravage the streets such as we might witness in the hundreds of cars being torched every month in France.

Answer 11

It is true that some religious people have a belief that their way is the only way.

It is also true that some religious people believe that their choice of religion is correct for them, and although they maintain their belief....they allow others to find their own path.