For example, crusades during Middle-Age, Religion against Science during the Lumieres, or God advising Bush for Irak...
Do you really believe in God?
2007-02-15 09:19:12 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Okay, God is all in your mind, but if there's religion war all over the world, it's not the same.
For me it's the same, everybody have the right to have 'faith', but we have to know that in some countries in the world, some people die for that (Americans, Irakians, Muslims...).
I wonder if one day USA will be laic, it's unbelievable that you've to swear on a book wrotten by some Roman politics to controll their population.
2007-02-15 09:50:57 · update #1
God is a way of loving each other...
2007-02-15 09:57:16 · answer #1 · answered by ILSE 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe in God because there is no way that all this came around without some divine intervention. As for the Crusades, the Inquisition, Bush, etc. Those were humans doing the talking. They found a way to perverticize religion and use it for themselves. Religion is a way to give people comfort and understanding. Yet these people used it to control the masses and carry out their will by scaring people. However, it is not God/Yahweh/Allah/etc. who did this. God would not intervene personally to tell people to kill his own children. People pretend to get their own ways across. What we need to do is think for ourselves and ask ourselves "Would this be the way God wanted us to act?" Instead of the church or Bush, lol.
2007-02-15 17:28:02 · answer #2 · answered by Ragriav 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
People use God to control other people, this is true. That has been a problem since the inception of religion, furthering one's own egotistical ideas through God.
2007-02-15 17:27:59 · answer #3 · answered by lotusmoon01 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Oh absolutely.
The idea of a God has been a control issue from the word go.
Why do you think the number one sin in religion - SEX
is the second strongest desire built into all life. _Reproduction
It's all about control and also MONEY but that is a given!
2007-02-15 17:28:19 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Organized religion is what controls people, not Divinity. Divinity sits back and offers advice when needed, but does not say "GO START A WAR IN MY NAME." Politics and religion, that's what controls people... (and the public school systems)
2007-02-15 17:33:59 · answer #5 · answered by gimmenamenow 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Of course that is the entire purpose for the invention of God. Now days politicians use God to influence people and win elections.
2007-02-15 17:28:35 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
possibly, but
there was an article in the Washington Post about how these were people protesting because the U.S. has the technology to basically put voices in your head, and that some of the people suffering from mental disorders or committing crimes because the voices told them to were actually sane, just affected by the testing the government was doing.
Hows that for control?
2007-02-15 17:25:41 · answer #7 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
War is not about religion, never has been. God is not in Bush's cabinet. Yes, I believe in God. God and science get along fine. It's people who either try to put them at odds or make unsupported claims.
2007-02-15 17:31:27 · answer #8 · answered by cmw 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think you just hit the nail on the head.
That is exactly the kind of logic we need in here. Good Job
And no i'm not being sarcastic or an AZZ Hole
2007-02-15 17:25:29 · answer #9 · answered by pillsbury_whiteboy 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
God didnt tell Bush squat.
Bush makes up so many things, how can anyone believe him?
I mean..why would God tell Bush to go over to Iraq and kill his own children?
Puh-lease.
God wouldnt do that.
2007-02-15 17:23:38 · answer #10 · answered by J U L Z; 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I think man has used God to control people
2007-02-15 17:24:50 · answer #11 · answered by joymlcat 3 · 4⤊ 0⤋