Has it served it's purpose?
2007-01-29 03:30:01 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yes, as long as you are very careful in how you interpret your question. It raises more questions to try to clarify terms like God and heaven. Has it served its purpose? Maybe, the story's not over yet...
2007-01-29 13:53:45 · answer #1 · answered by ? 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No, the purpose of religion is to control the masses through the use of fear, so that the few in power retain such a position and the masses think they'll be rewarded for not kicking up a fuss when they get to heaven. Therefore, it continues to serve its purpose as there are still a lot of people stupid enough to believe it and plenty of religious leaders sitting on top of a whopping great fortune and telling everybody what to do.
2007-01-29 03:45:51 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
The purpose of religion is to make heaven happen on Earth.
To do this you need big armies, lots of WOMDs, crowd control, elite autocratic rulers, laws to legalise mass slaughter, weird ideologies packaged as truth in universites, a justice system using the principle of moral relativity, political spin, nihilistic social engineering, unjust laws to enforce the egotistical will of a majority view upon those who know something they don't, mind control, thought control, subjugation of the individual by force if necessary to a collective consciousness, the spilling of other people's blood who get in the way of nations planning for their bright and prosperous future, big brother surveillance, consumption, greed, selfishness, and so on.
This is the religion of fantasists and day dreamers and it ain't gonna happen, not in a million years.
Heaven is not a place. It is a relationship. How long will it take the dullards in academia to realise that Jesus is the only way to Heaven.
2007-01-30 12:16:08 · answer #3 · answered by forgetful 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
John 14:6 says Jesus reported," i'm the way,the fact, and the existence, no person includes the father different than by way of Me". Jesus grew to become into speaking approximately Heaven in that verse. in case you have not got self belief in Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior then you extremely will bypass to hell. Being a guy or woman that does ideal acts is often extra desirable than the different yet devoid of recognizing Jesus as your savior and commiting your existence to following the factors set with the help of Him (that are got here upon interior the Holy Bible), then you extremely are basically earning your self much less of a hell (which continues to be excruciatingly painful and lonely).
2016-12-17 05:05:47 · answer #4 · answered by nokes 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The purpose of religion is to ensure you act in a more acceptable way while on this planet. If you believe in God or not, you abide by his rules as they are the rules that dictate the law's of the state. Look at the ten commandments and the laws in most "christian" countries.
2007-01-29 03:36:09 · answer #5 · answered by friskydragon 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Most 'religions' are man's attempt to reach God.
Christianity is God reaching down to man - we rejoin God here on Earth and will dwell in His presence forever in Heaven.
So, religion has not served this purpose. God has.
2007-01-29 03:45:18 · answer #6 · answered by padwinlearner 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The purpose of religion is to give us hope that we will do those things.
2007-01-29 03:35:22 · answer #7 · answered by Atlas 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No. there never was a god or heaven in the first place. It's all been the humans.
2007-01-29 03:34:33 · answer #8 · answered by Cold Fart 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
1) Yes, to help us to understand Him, what He wants from us, and to bring us closer.
2) No, not fully achieved yet. It's still a messed-up world.
2007-01-29 03:35:53 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋