2006-12-08 01:09:07 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Hmmmm...that fellow "God Burns Liberals in Hell", - I wonder what his views are? lol
2006-12-08 01:16:54 · update #1
No
2006-12-08 01:10:51 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
ok, I think you misunderstand us. I don't think I need to attend church to be saved. I believe in salvation by faith, through Jesus. some churches are not run in a godly manner, some do not feed the poor, some are just "Holy dressed business". Some are genuine though, and are there because they want to have a fellowship of believers who can worship together and also be a part of the community. The church I go to is great, and we're very involved in the community. The money we give to the church does go to good things. I think it sounds good to say buy a homeless person a meal, but not everyone lives in the city, and we can have more of an impact in our communities by being part of the local church. In the town where I live, there are no homeless people, but there are a lot of poor people. You can't just walk down the street here and find the poor people who could use some help. It's much easier to accomplish things through a church who is active in the community. I found what you had to say to be quite harsh, the way you said it. But it seems like you're a good person who wants to help other people, and you're probably frustrated with all the mistakes and hypocrisy of Christians. Maybe religion is a mistake, in a way. Maybe people have become too focused on their traditions and not enough on the really important things. If you've read the gospels, then you know that the things Jesus taught were really good things, that if all Christians followed, would have such a great impact on the world. Many Christians do follow Jesus' ways, and they do have a great impact wherever they are. Also, about one of your first comments there, we do believe we can talk to God anytime anwhere. That's not why we go to church. well, maybe some believe that you only pray in church, but most Christians pray on their own as well. Church services are for worshipping God with others, learning more about Him through the sermon, and having fellowship with other believers. So, i guess after all that my answer is no. Religion is not the biggest mistake, but hypocrisy is definitely a mistake.
2016-05-23 06:20:13 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Communism is. Over 150 million people have been killed by communist regimes in less than a century -- I think that's proof enough of it being humanity's biggest mistake.
It's no coincidence that Communism was (actually still is) officially atheist.
After all, when God is removed from the picture, it's easy for anyone to justify the sorts of atrocities that Communism has perpetrated in many parts of the world.
It's easy to rationalize such atrocities, when one feels that they must answer to no Higher Power, and only have to answer to themselves.
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2006-12-08 01:29:21 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The truth is: the Devil made the world - and just for fun he made people a differnt colour and gave then a different language - so they would fight each other. However, this din't work too well and so he invented God and gave all the folks here a differnt religion - he knew that would get them fighting - and sure enough: it did.
2006-12-08 01:31:22 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
When the enlightened master leaves his body, his followers form a religion. Religion provide tools to rise spiritually. Spirituality is the essence of all religions. However in ab sense of living enlightened master, only few rise spiritually, others simply cling on to their religion without understanding its essence. Tools are not the goal, this is the reason of so many conflicts in to days world.
2006-12-08 03:10:36 · answer #5 · answered by dd 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, all religions worship one holy being, so there is no need for different religions, as the holy being is just called something different in each religion, and this causes wars etc., because of the difference in opinions, over whose religion is right.
2006-12-08 01:16:49 · answer #6 · answered by ladyinspain 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh no, we have made some real doozies of mistakes. Religion gives people hope of what lies beyond. What a few have done in the name of their religion is a big mistake.
2006-12-08 01:15:43 · answer #7 · answered by Stephen 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Possibly. Maybe it's not really the actual act of believing in a higher bieng and having faith but the more the principles and politics that go along with it. Well that and man's natural tendency to err.
2006-12-08 01:16:23 · answer #8 · answered by Tokyo Vixen 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People don't like to take responciblity for their actions. Natural disasters are acts of god, crop failiures also. People do bad things and then ask for forgivness. It all comes down to weakness and trying to rely or blame it all on somebody else. Peter Key: "I prayed to god for a new bicycle. The I realised he doesn't work that way, so I nicked one and asked for forgivness"
2006-12-08 01:55:11 · answer #9 · answered by Reg Tedious 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, to be fair. Mankind's biggest mistake was nelson_england. Then it was religion. Have a good weekend and enjoy your newfound celebrity status!
2006-12-08 01:13:22 · answer #10 · answered by comic_bob 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
no, think where we would be without it. you can argue that there would be less (posibly even no?) wars etc etc. but like it or not religion is a thing that goes some way to defining our differences the world over
2006-12-08 01:14:01 · answer #11 · answered by elsie 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋