How can any religion be right? Every "true" member of "any" religion believes that they are right and the rest are wrong. Therefore, how can anyone believe "completely" in just one?
Why not live based on "morals", and not religion?
2006-12-27 16:35:45 · 13 answers · asked by Tree 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Boy, you like to assume!
I'm a Pagan, and I tend to believe that I am right and so is everyone else!
My religion is right and so is every other religion!
You should get into logic and learn that for every dualist question that you can think of, where there only seem to be two, completely opposing answers, there is always at least one more answer.
2006-12-27 16:49:24 · answer #1 · answered by raxivar 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Religion is first about access to and acceptance by God, It was true for Cane and Abel and it remains so now. Read the letter from Saddam Hussein today for a current example.
Morals run a distant second. with or without religion; as evidenced by the lives of Cane and Hussein.
We have moral codes now - known as the law or the penal codes and other "stuff" all the way down to traffic regulations. What you are suggesting has already been done and it doesn't work.
God made a way for all men to have access to His presence. That access is through the blood of Jesus Christ. All religion, including Christian religious programs, projects and ideas, is false. Only experience counts and every generation is only responsible for the revelation God allowed at that time.
Can any "religion" be right? No. because it is something that men do aside from what God requires. Does moral living hold the total answer? No. because the quality of the moral nature of man is perverse. It requires constant external control unless subject to the Holy Spirit.
2006-12-28 02:26:11 · answer #2 · answered by Tommy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Were the scientist right when some thought the world was flat? I would agree that many of the religions have a good moral base, however, I believe there is only one true religion and that is Christianity. The prophesies in the bible are unbelievable in the predictions of Christ coming and what He has fulfilled. There is only one way to heaven and that is through Jesus Christ. If you think you can make it to heaven on your own by being a good person that is contrary to what the bible says. This is not a question you would want to be wrong on...
2006-12-28 00:45:04 · answer #3 · answered by Scotty K 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Religion is a good thing in some ways, it provides people with hope. Religion also can be detrimental. If one person thinks he's right, and another think he's right and both refuse to accept each other you have a recipe for war. Belief systems are often times impossible to negotiate or change. I believe that religion was invented to keep the poor man poor and the rich man rich and that you should live by a set of moral codes you set up for yourself. Religion creates war, destruction, and conflict, which technically is what is opposed to.
2006-12-28 00:50:26 · answer #4 · answered by bubbleblu602 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We do not live just based on "morals" as you suggest because practically speaking, it only leads us back to square one if we think it through.
Morals have to be set and defined. But that leads us to ask, WHAT morals? From where would we derive our morals? You can't just make it up. Will our morals be informed by some religion? If so, WHICH ... since each religion has its own set of morals? Furthermore, what makes one moral law better than another? How do you weigh the legitimacy of one moral law over another? What makes your set of moral laws better than another? And what accountability do we have? To WHOM are we accountable? If no one, then why does it matter to even have morals?
Ultimately, what you end up discovering in all this is that you are faced with having to consider a system that is morally consistent and coherent. This of course leads you back to a religion.
2006-12-28 01:05:47 · answer #5 · answered by im3ngs 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because morals won't save you. We all have souls. We all will stand before a very real God after we die and based on the decision we made to accept Him or reject Him will determine where we end up - Heaven or Hell. Morals may mean you live a good, clean life here but good deeds will not get you into Heaven. Only belief in Jesus Christ as the Son of God and forgiveness of your sins through His blood sacrifice will save your soul.
John 14:6
Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."
2006-12-28 00:40:25 · answer #6 · answered by Pamela 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just listen to the word of God & if there are conflicts make a decision yourself upon all the input. Read on it; look it up on the net for background & why some things are believed as they are.
Organized religion is not a negative. It is a way to be with people who believe in God trying to learn how to be better people by listening to his message.
2006-12-28 00:53:52 · answer #7 · answered by Judith 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hell yes we should question it!
Especially the one that teaches its followers that it is their religious duty to spew their beliefs into our faces like projectile vomit.
I also believe that I am perfectly capable of listening to my own "small still voice" and making rational decisions about how I want to conduct myself in this world, without needing them to tell me how I should think and act and believe.
We are all so different and therefor there can not be any one anything that is right for all people.
Of course, they find this very threatening, because they are jealous (and afraid) of the freedom and responsibility that comes with making your own decisions and doing your own thinking.
Or maybe they are just too lazy to put forth the effort...
2006-12-28 01:27:14 · answer #8 · answered by yomama 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not all religions are so exclusive. Most organized religions are, but not all. Check out religious pluralism.
2006-12-28 02:02:44 · answer #9 · answered by Brian 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus said that He was the Truth, the Life, and the Way!
That is all one needs to know!
2006-12-28 01:05:46 · answer #10 · answered by zoril 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋