religions a way of life for psychologically weak individuals?

Question

it manipulates them to its advantage
it uses them as cannonfodders in time of war
it makes more money than anybody else

Answer 1

Possibly, but this section is called religion and spirituality.

What is spirituality in your opinion?

Love and blessings Don

Answer 2

Well actually, what does religion gain to win? The Catholic church could have had power to gain, but now though, what would be the reason for the religious zealots and devouted people.

We actualy have nothing to gain during this lifetime. There's spiritual blessings that come with believing in Christ yes, and there's peace in midst of war, but atheist have been able to find that. Non-Christians are able to live a good life also and are able to be happy. The only real advantage that a Christian has comes after life.

Churches do not, by any means make more money than anybody else, nor does the individual Christian. I'm not sure where you get that from.

Lastly, for the psychologically weak individuals, Christianity is not for them. To truely be Christian and a strong Christian, it requires a renouncing of humanistic impulses and habits. Where most people find it easy to curse, the Christian tries to stop; where people find it easy to spread hate, talk badly, etc... whatever it is, these are all things Christian's strive not to do. It takes will power, prayer, discipline - Chrisitanity is not for the psychologically weak individuals. As strong as people think they are, the hardest thing to do, is to actually become weak. It's a paradox realy, but it's an interestingly true one.

Answer 3

So is patriotism a way of life for psychologically weak individuals? U.S. did go to war in Iraq because of patriotism. remember "the war on terrorism"

The U.S. government

it manipulates us to its advantage
it uses us as cannonfodders in time of war
it makes more money than anybody else

Answer 4

We are all psychologically weak individuals. We all have doubt, anxiety, fear, anger, hatred, etc... Some of us are able to hide our weaknesses from ourselves or from others with greater success than others of us may hide them, but that does not make those of us who skillfully hide their weaknesses stronger, and skillfully hiding our weaknesses can actually make us weaker and more vulnerable to a nervous breakdown or psychotic epsiode.

Religion helps address our insecurities about ourselves. If it provides a sense of superiority and strength to follow a given religion then that may be for the ultimate best, regardless of whether that sense of security and wellbeing is judged to be false by people of different faiths or points of view.

Everything is a matter of give-and-take so religions will always require their followers to contribute to the perpetutation of their belief systems in ways that are manipulative. But no social systems exist that do not also manipulate their members so it is unfair to single out religions as being better or worse than any other social systems in this regard.

It is unfortunate that our human socio-economic dynamics push us into conflict and war, and even more unfortunate that religion is often used as the excuse for war, but religion cannot change the underlying dynamics and cannot be held solely responsible for wars waged in the name of god or creed. Scarcity and greed are far stronger motivators to go to war.

Our national and mulit-national corporations make more money and have stricter rules and more manpulative processes than religions. The corporations of our world do far more to promote poverty and environmental degradation and social injustice than do any religion. But, like our corporations, some of the money earned by religions is returned in charitable works; its just a pity that the charitable works undertaken are not enough to balance the damages that result from all of these institutions.

Answer 5

You are trying to candy coat the communist statement that " religion is the narcotic of the masses."

If you would stop and think, 83% of the American public say they are Christians. ( that is to include catholics, Mormons, etc)
If you look at it that way, you are saying that many people are stupid or mental cases when a majority of them have college degrees.

Is there anything wrong about " Thou shalt not Kill?"
or how about " Thou shalt not steal?"

If people lived by these standards, the world would be a better place. I like the odds maker many years ago, Nick the Greek, when asked if he believed in God. His answer was, " yes, to believe in something or someone as powerful as that, who teaches us to Love and care for each other is good. And yes, he believed in God and would give 4 to 1 odds on it."

Keep believing in all Christians are only the psychologically weak. It is a very wrong statement on your part.

Answer 6

Tell me Mother Teresa was psychologically weak. When was the last time you washed **** and vomit off a dying person.

Religion is the human approach to matters of ultimate concern. Everyone has a religion. I guess yours is just nihilistic, reductionistic, scientistic materialism. What a miserable religion -- life is ultimately meaningless; human beings are transient products of evolutionary happenstance, doomed to annihilation; all our deepest hopes are destined for frustration and oblivion.

Nobody manipulates me. My religion is governed by my own conscience.

Nobody's taking me to war. And by the way, militant atheism killed 200 million people in the 20th century in war, engineered famine, and genocide.

And the poorer people are, the more religious they tend to be. The rich in this world are cynics and secularists, not believers.

Answer 7

Yes. But that's not the only reason that people follow a religious life. In other words, there certainly are a lot of people who follow religious because it gives them a direction, and they're incapable of directing themselves. But others, including some perfectly capable people also choose religion for other reasons.

Answer 8

You are absolutely right , we have been created so weak and helpless. Just consider our daily necessities like water and air,
we are relying on the creator to survive. We are physically weak but not psychologically, it seems to us that we have no other choice except to have faith and obey the guidelines set up by our creator the Almighty.

Answer 9

Your argument is incorrect. It assumes the shortcoming of information of the guy, besides the indisputable fact that there take position to be some extremely wise those who trust interior the numerous diverse religions. those human beings run the gamut from organization human beings to scientists, medical doctors or maybe instructors and professors. They take position to be the numerous maximum inventive thinkers on earth. do not for one 2d imagine that non secular conception ability lack of intelligence or a potential of wondering logically.

Answer 10

Thank you Karl Marx. In case you haven't noticed, some of the greatest men ever to exist were religious. Fredrick the Great, Constantine, and Gandhi come to mind, but research would bring up thousands more.

Answer 11

No, Christianity is not a religion but a reality that becomes a way of life.

No, in a way I'm using Christ.

No, to defeat evil is not being used.

No, makes money is totally wrong, it takes money in to further it's cause.

Are you a Biblical illiterate?

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