I have to be honest on this one friends?

Question

every religion brainwashes their followers and dont allow them to think for themselves. but islam is the worst. doubting and questioning is the best way and the only way forward for the human race.
am i right?
if we can question politics, and every other area, then why should religion be immune from criticism? to people of every faith i ask, does your religion have a monopoly on the truth?
i ask this same question from muslims as well

Answer 1

Why don't you get a life, child? I swear, you really love me don't you? That's the only reason I can think of for why you keep cloning me and have done so at least three times. Just check my q and a everyone. The links are in my questions about clones. It's amazing that she's still so feeble minded even after being found out on her entire profile!

Answer 2

I totally agree, doubting and questioning is something everyone should do cause it leads to the truth and real answers.
People now-a-days are touchy about everything. There's censorship to protect peoples feelings. People need to look more into the history of their religion -some people don't even realize why they practice what they practice and so forth. Religion is immune from criticism for the same reasons -if you say something bad about someone else's religion they may take it the wrong way even if you are telling them facts. For example i remember having a religions class and the teacher bluntly said at the start of it that he wasn't telling us what to practice or any of his personal opinions, but he was simply teaching us what the people of those religions believe. And so many people would say "I don't agree with him" and disliked him for telling simple facts -such ignorance! i don't even know how else to explain that.
No religion has a monopoly on truth and over many years has been used as an excuse to cause war and blind servitude. People just want answers to what they don't know and have been told by their religion in some cases (Muslims for example) that if you need to kill to 'protect' your religion then do it -as long as you're not killing another Muslim it's OK. This also happened in Christianity -the bible said nothing about burning heretics besides what they misinterpreted (The cant shed blood, so burning was a way around it). Another thing to note is the similarities in some religions -a good example may be how the Norse Thor relates to the Greek Zeus.
Religion has a way of leading people to do what they can to make sure everyone thinks the same I guess and people end up blindly buying into it.

Answer 3

I have no comment on the Islam thing, because I don't have enough knowledge about the religion to speak about it.

But you're right in a sense, about the brainwashing thing. However "brainwashing" is a harsh term. Of course people want others to share their same beliefs. And you have to remember that it's every person's own right to chose what they believe in, so if they chose to be "brainwashed" and endorse what they believe in....then so be it. And I don't think religion is actually "immune" from criticism. Im sure that under CONTROVERSY right before or after politics sits religion. But a person's faith only turns into "politics" if they make a comment that causes it to become political.

And about the whole "truth" thing. Well with so many different religions comes so many different "truths" don't you think? If a religion says "there is no truth"...doesn't its followers believe that the "truth" is that there IS NO truth? The truth is the truth to their religion..what ever a religion exaggerates is its truth, and people crowd around if they believe the same.

Answer 4

There is only one truth and that truth is God. The truth of men is the truth of this world, which is a lie. This world is ruled by Satan and Satan is a lie because the truth is not in him. To question truth is to question God and the person who questions God places himself/herself above God. This is what Satan has done (read Isaiah Chapter 14). Faith in a belief system is not brainwashing,provided that that system does not enslave its believers. When there is enslavement, then you have a cult. Islam, as it is practiced in many Middle Eastern countries is a cult because it imposes a death penalty for violation of some of its rules, and it is intolerant of other belief systems such as Judaism and Christianity, the two belief systems that it came out of. Religion, which is self-righteousness, does brainwash because it states that you can get to heaven by another way other than Jesus Christ.. Religion says that you can pull yourself up by your bootstraps and do it all on your own. You can do nothing without God.

Answer 5

All christian traditions practice indoctrination. They refuse the truth because they are told by a few that the truth is already known.
but Jesus condemned religious leaders for being children of the devil for not believing in HIS teachings because they were not His teachings but the teachings of God.
it is a repeatable mistake no matter how many prophets God sends into the world.
Jesus Yelled at the city jerusalem and said HOW long shall i suffer to be with you.
i ask the same question but my emotions go up and down on the scale, i hate the evils that plague my life because of people who are willing to practice them.

Answer 6

all major religions insist they have all the answers. it affords them control, power and privilege.

were you born in india you might well be a hindu that would believe that bathing in the holy water of the ganges with rotting body parts floating by would cleanse you.

were you born in a muslim country you might believe that women are little more than chattel and infidelity in marriage warrants a death sentence

were you born into a cristian society you can sin all your life and yet go to heaven if you were baptised and repent on your death bed

the truth is there is no god
and religions are the bane of this world

Answer 7

* Well the book religions do in fact teach one and only ABSOLUTE TRUTH. Whether it be the bible or the koran, or the book of Morman.. those christians who claim to believe the bible, but say the many different warring churches are all going to heaven, have no clue as to what the bible really teaches.

Pagans however believe in many Gods and many different paths that lead to the same place.*

Answer 8

u r quite right. religions monopollize past truths now turned false.

but as u know not all common folks can follow the honest but difficult path of logic, they just accept illogical things. It is escapism: discovering the truth is difficult and every discovered truth demands th human being to be more hardworking to live, no recipe of complete salvation as given by religion, so common man prefer the illusion of religion over truth of science.

it is pathetic, but changing..

Answer 9

I agree. If we aren't able to question, then we stagnate. If we stagnate, we start to stink.

I don't know about Islam, but the Catholic church also hates to be questioned. That is why I got in trouble as a kid, and why I left the Catholic church.

As a Bible believing non-denominational follower of Jesus, we are told to question all spirits, and to test the prophets, and to see the fruits of people. If that isn't a freedom to grow, I don't know what is.

Answer 10

You would be taken much more seriously here if you stopped CLONING PEOPLE!!!!! Be brave and strong and use YOUR OWN ID and ask legitimate questions.

Reported for cloning (again).