2007-02-09 13:24:25 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Hmmm, lemme think!
Well, it's one reason for congregation!?
And, you need it to get married!?!?
Then, you need it for the Christening of the child!?!?
And, you need it to bury the dead!?!?
2007-02-09 13:28:58 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
Religion provides you with answers to your deepest stated questions about life, i.e. "why am I here?" It provides you with a spiritual being, not just a physical one, and an idea of what will happen to your spirit after death. Also, it gives you values and morals, and a motivation to improve yourself.
As a side note - never judge a religion by it's believers. For example, Islam was set down in the Qur'an by Muhammad to be a peaceful religion, but look what some of the believers have done! Islam isn't a violent cult because some of its followers interpret it incorrectly. Christianity forbids sex before marriage, yet how many "Christians" do it anyway? That doesn't make Christianity any less good - it only reflects on the spirituality of those certain Christians.
That is human error, not God's error or the religion's error.
(I know this is irrelevant, but it needs to be pointed out anyway).
2007-02-09 13:31:32 · answer #2 · answered by someday. 2 · 2⤊ 2⤋
I can't think of any. Religions divide, spirituality unites. Brand name religion asks us to accept a very narrow view of our world. But a spiritual person can see the big picture and accept that the best aspects of many different faiths and beliefs are of equal value.
2007-02-09 13:35:00 · answer #3 · answered by miketwemlow 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
God says : "Humility; pridelessness; nonviolence; tolerance; simplicity; approaching a bona fide spiritual master; cleanliness; steadiness; self-control; renunciation of the objects of sense gratification; absence of false ego; the perception of the evil of birth, death, old age and disease; detachment; freedom from entanglement with children, wife, home and the rest; even-mindedness amid pleasant and unpleasant events; constant and unalloyed devotion to Me; aspiring to live in a solitary place; detachment from the general mass of people; accepting the importance of self-realization; and philosophical search for the Absolute Truth—all these I declare to be knowledge, and besides this whatever there may be is ignorance."
2007-02-09 13:45:26 · answer #4 · answered by ? 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The core of most of them seems to be concerned with considering others feelings.
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2007-02-09 14:18:06 · answer #5 · answered by Tim 47 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If a religious person says to an atheist there is a heaven, and when they die, they find there is, the religious person can mock the atheist!
If an atheist says there is no heaven, and they die, and there is no heaven, and there is nothing, the atheist loses out on the glory!
2007-02-09 13:30:51 · answer #6 · answered by tattie_herbert 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
NOTHING HOLY COMES OUT OF THE UNHOLY,THE WORD OF MANKIND,LOOK AT THE STATE THE WORLD IS IN,A WORLD FULL OF SIN AND DEATH .YOU ARE TO LIVE YOUR LIFE AS WOULD LIVE YOUR LIFE IN HEAVEN.HAVE YOU ALL LOST THE WAY ONTO LIFE,A WORLD ,A WICKED WORLD,WHERE THERE IS NO FAITH IN PEACE AND ONLY THOUGHTS OF WAR.
2007-02-09 13:49:52 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Good wine
2007-02-09 13:29:26 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
a sense of unity within a congregation
songs that don't rhyme
you get to wear nice clothing on Sunday
OH! you get to give the church 10% of your income!
2007-02-09 13:28:38 · answer #9 · answered by stephanie 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Aside from making people feel good, nothing.
2007-02-09 13:30:20 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
keeps large masses of people in control and gives individuals hope for the future and after death... Creates "well adjusted" human beings...
2007-02-09 13:28:44 · answer #11 · answered by dryice1020 2 · 2⤊ 2⤋