Religion? is it real or just mass hysteria?

Question

People should have more faith in themselves than some false God!!

Answer 1

Well, Western religions are based on scribbling scratched out on papyrus 2000 + years ago by ignorant, superstitious people barely out of the bronze age. They knew nothing about the world and how it works, so they attributed anything they couldn't understand (which was pretty well everything) to god.

Now here we are, 2000 + years later, and we have millions of people basing their beliefs and their lives on these ancient, worthless scribblings, denying the scientific advances and the knowledge we have accumulated since and trying to tell everyone else they'll burn in hell for not agreeing with them.

Answer 2

I once read an intriguing article about Moses, the
temple and the Ark of the covenant.
First interesting fact (Noted in the old testament) is that Moses had been brought up in the royal Egyptian court where he was obviously educated in the Egyptian sciences (or occult).
The Egyptians once had a Pharaoh who was known has the heretic by the orthodox Egyptian priests, due to his belief in the one Sun god.
Even though his heretical religion ceased to exist after his death, it does not necessary mean that his ideas died out altogether, as such is the example in the case of Jesus's ministry.
It is therefore possible, that moses could have heard such ideas and incorporated them into his own formula of belief system.
Second interesting fact is wandering for forty years in a desert that stretches from Egypt to Palestine. Such a distance would not take forty years to cover, unless you were going around in circles (very odd behaviour from a leader).
Third interesting fact of the Arks construction, a wooden box which was covered in gold plate, with two winged angels at ever side, with of course the ten commandments written by God through moses.
When you look at how the Ark was carried from the temple in the desert on wooden poles after laying under a fabric roof all day in the heat one starts to see the first evidence of a fraud on a massive historical level.
The Ark has been described by Scientists as an early accumulator, rather like a battery.
Inside the Ark, all you would need is a chemical reaction with an acid, zinc or any other metal to make the plates and static electricity generated by the temple.
The temple has also been described as having a frabric roof, which seems odd if you have built a temple out of stone, then engineer a frabric roof, why not reeds?
All the materials were available to the Eygptians, I will bet with a great amount of ingenuity to fit the task but the Eygptians were inventive, just look at the building feats of the pyramids.
When the Ark was laid in the Tabernacle (temple) a static charge was built up through the day, which entered the Ark by way of the winged angels, which acted as positive and negative terminals as on a modern battery.
When the Ark was moved it had to be handled by the use of non-conductive wooden poles.
If moses authorised its construction, he must of known what he was building and had an understanding of how his invention could, inspire or delude a largely uneducated community of ex-slaves, into believing that he, Moses had the complete divine connection with the one true God which resided in the Ark along with the ten commandments (which Moses had secretly written, with or without the presence of a god).
As is told by the Bible of the punishment to any one who dared approached the Ark, would be smited by Yahweh in a flash of light; sounding rather, to the modern scientific mind like eletrocution.
So if theses facts are the case, (which I myself find compelling enough) then the three main religions, mentioning no names, are based on a lie, created by an Egyptian conjurer.

Answer 3

religion is real to those that believe it. if religion were abandoned then we really would become what science propounds. we would become entities that are products of random chance no better than pieces of paper floating in the wind.

GOD has inspired man since time immemorial and without a belief in a supreme being, we would not have come this far. science and religion were at one point one and the same, when man first gazed at the skies in wonderment and started tracking the movements.

religion CAN be at times mass hysteria if you equate it with over the top fundamentalists or those you kill in the name of religion, also when religious intolerance and superstition are promulgated.

so you answer is IT'S BOTH.

Answer 4

Depends on what you term religion. Communism described it as the opiate of the masses. They have a point. Faith is a strong thing. How many people pray when they are in a dire or lifethreatening situation? How many are saved? How much is that down to some Higher Being or the summoning of superhuman strength from somewhere within ourselves?

Answer 5

I think religion can be a good thing.
I don't believe in worshipping of gods or anything, but for people to live together we do need some moral code, and religion is nothing but moral codes forced on people by other people who do it behind closed doors.
Saying that religion and faith can be good for people, give them some reason for being etc etc.
I believe in looking after yourself and your family, not hurting anybody or anything else, and helping anyone who needs it where you can.

Answer 6

Anytime i ever feel my faith in God is gone because of something bad happening, something good happens. People have no problem believing in the devil but when it comes to believing in God, there are always questions and fights,riots over religion etc.
I dunno.....cant understand it......
For now, im standing by God and am very thankfull for that.

Answer 7

Good point, but people should be allowed to believe whatever they want to. Religion is just some people's way of explaining the mad world we live in and sometimes faith in a God helps them through the day.

Me? I don't really believe in a "god" as such and resent it when people try to force their views on me.

Answer 8

Nothing hysterical about religion. If we can't prove the existence of God, and not believe, when we die, we find out the truth. If there be no God, we are just dust. If there be a God, we burn in Hell. If we can't prove the non existence of God and yet believe, then when we die, we find the truth. If He does not exist, we are dust and lose nothing. If He does exist, we gain life everlasting in Heaven. I'd rather believe and be safe instead of not believe and go to Hell for eternity.

Answer 9

Mass hysteria.

Answer 10

In concept it sounds ok yet many don't need saving nor others preaching to them how they must stay, even nonetheless sarcastically they lead religiously guided lives that they are thoroughly misled by making use of. Many look to seek for and want help desperately, by using fact they lack self belief of their own means to artwork it out for themselves and commonly fall sufferer to their own condition, which they locate themselves powerless to alter. whilst they look ahead to miracles or possibilities they could very not often get the possibility to have in this random chaotic mad life yet nether the fewer endeavour to maintain some style of religion. overdue edit~ the saddest tale is the adverse being stripped of their funds for the reason. God a device for administration