Thoughts on Religon?

Question

People believe in religion because they were taught to believe in God as a child growing up and that is all they know, some are believers because of their parents and some are believers because of their beliefs. Imagination is something we tend to do in life, and God is a spiritual imagination.

Answer 1

I thought this for a long time Holly then this happened and blew my little theory right out of the water.

Several years ago I had an unusual experience concerning an uncle, a distant relative who lived over a thousand miles away.

While driving my car I suddenly felt the unmistakable presence of this relative that I hardly even knew. He was more like someone I had heard about than someone I knew. It was very strange; it felt as though I was momentarily lifted right out of my physical body. I seemed to be suspended somehow beyond space and time, bathed in a love so intense It felt like I could have just disappear into it at any moment if It would have let me. It only lasted for a few seconds, but it seemed to last forever at the same time. I realize how crazy this must sound. The experience was so strong that at first I was afraid I was loosing my grip on reality. I finally managed to chalk it up to an over active imagination.

Three days later I got a call from my aunt telling me that this uncle we are talking about had gone into a coma and died the day I had the experience. It felt like ice water had been poured down my back when she told me this. I had lost any real ideas of God or faith and had become somewhat of an atheist. Needless to say this experience caused me to rethink some of the conclusions I had come to.

I feel blessed to now understand that even in our darkest confusion something loves us so much that it went out of its way to assist me and bring me back to a state of absolute certainty about Gods love for us.
During the experience it seemed like there was a vast amount of information that I was somehow allowed access to. One thing that I came away from this experience understanding beyond any shadow of a doubt was that any Idea that God is unhappy with us or would judge or allow us to be punished for any reason is simply impossible.

I can’t explain the love I felt with words. They simply don’t make words big enough or complete enough to do this. The only way I can begin to convey this love to you is to say that there was simply nothing else there. Nothing but love. No hint of judgment, no displeasure of any sort. It is as though God sees us as being as perfect as we were the day we were created. It is only in our confused idea of ourselves that we seem to have changed.

I hope this is of some help to you. Good luck. Love and blessings.

Your brother don

Answer 2

The short answer: It's in our genes....

The long answer:
Religion and god is as real as the tooth fairy....primitive man needed the 'religious experience' to survive in a hostile universe. The unknown was explained by the supernatural, the idea of an afterlife cushioned people from the grim aspects of death, in short, it was a survival mechanism developed within the temporal lobe of all human brains.

Modern man has developed rational thought and controls much of the environment, to the extent of knowing how 'things operate'. But obsolete genes do not die overnight, therefore you'll always be seeing people believing in religion, god and the supernatural.

I read about some interesting studies by scientists of the temporal lobe regions that are 'mis-firing' or giving off 'unbalanced' neuroligical signals. Some of the studies are intrigueing, they can duplicate 'religious experiences' in blind tests of humans.

It was already known that the more primitive limbic system of our brains contain the raw emotion where our religious beliefs spring forth. The development of the cerebral cortex (or the thinking and rational part of the brain) is only a recent development in humans, say the last 40,000-100,000 years.

It is also well known that the 'god-gene' (for lack of a better description) is triggered during times of duress, high anxiety, near death or starvation, and other high emotional episodes. It was our survival instinct that developed this so-called god-gene. The "born again Christian" phenomena has a scientific basis.

Now, scientists can atificially trigger that response under laboratory conditions by narrowing the focus to the temporal regions of the brain. Further studies are being conducted to study this gene and its effect on our development as a species

Answer 3

Can we using formulas and equations of physics
to know anything about the God ?
Is it possible to explain religion with the help of the
physical and mathematical theorems?
Yes. It is possible.
Because creating all MATERIAL WORLD the God
could only working in an absolute reference system
and only under physical and mathematical laws.
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1.
What is the absolute reference system?
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Now it is consider, that reference frame connected with
relict isotropic radiation T = 2,7K is absolute.
But T = 2,7K is not a constant factor.
This relict isotropic radiation continues to extend and decrease
and, hence, approximately over a period of
20 billions years will reach T=0K.
That is a structure of Nothing, of Vacuum, of Absolute Zero.
Absolute God can exist only behind
Absolute reference system : Vacuum T=0K.
2.
The Quantum physics approves, that in the beginning
God /Vacuum created " virtual particles ".
What a geometrical and physical parameters can the particles have in
the structure of Nothing, in Vacuum, in Absolute Zero in T=0K?
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According to the laws of physics :
J. Charles ( 1787), Gay-Lussac ( 1802),
W. Nernst ( 1910), A. Einstein ( 1925)
particles in a Vacuum cannot have density, volume
and consequently should be flat figures.
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These laws tell, that
then closer to zero T=0K, then the particles lose more their volume.
The volume of these particles aspire to infinity.
And then this “ infinity” comes the brain of physicists
stop to work. They refuse to think any more.
And I say when volume of the particles disappear they
become “flat phantoms”.
These “flat phantoms” are not abstract particles, they are real ones.
Quantums of light flies with speed c=1 have such geometrical form.
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2.
What is a quantum of light?
From all particles, only and only
the quantum of light is a privileged particle.
Only a light quantum has the absolute speed c=1.
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The secret of God and Existence is hiding
in the “ Theory of Light quanta”.
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Answer 4

--It would take an imagination as stupendous as the universe itself to have the belittling idea of "spiritual imagination"--that you described we are supposed to have!

--DO YOU REALLY think we have that enormous of a brain?

--DO YOU REALLY THINK that H.G. Wells, Isaac Asimov, Conan Doyle,Clive Cusler, Agatha Christie and all the fiction writers that have existed could possibly really , even some how, with their brains melded, synergized,OR linked --COULD EVER conjure up such an amazing concept of the God of the Bible?

--I DO NOT THINK SO!

--Just on the existence of Jesus as Jehovah God's son and all that he was and accomplished, please note a mind meld that might indeed help you to do some thinking:--

*** gt The Greatest Man Who Ever Lived

The historian H. G. Wells said that a man’s greatness can be measured by ‘what he leaves to grow, and whether he started others to think along fresh lines with a vigor that persisted after him.’ Wells, although not claiming to be a Christian, acknowledged: “By this test Jesus stands first.”

*** gt The Greatest Man Who Ever Lived **

A Historical Person

Yet, strangely, some say that Jesus never lived—that he is, in effect, a creation of some first-century men. Answering such skeptics, the respected historian Will Durant argued: “That a few simple men should in one generation have invented so powerful and appealing a personality, so lofty an ethic and so inspiring a vision of human brotherhood, would be a miracle far more incredible than any recorded in the Gospels.”

--SO IF THIS be true about Christ(which I have no doubt) for your benefit--HOW MUCH greater would it be for the creator of Christ and the entire universe?

--IMAGINE if you can gravity , electro-magnetic forces, enertia, oxogen-carbon dioxide exchange in our blood stream, and every conceivable force in nature --

--JUST HAVE BEEN imagined & really not existing?

--CAN YOU REALLY IMAGINE such forces just being a figment of YOURS & OUR imagination and not really existing--HARDLY?---

--WOULD IT NOT take the worst IMAGINATION to dismiss the most un-dismissable BEING in the universe.?

--ARE YOU REALLY that dull?

Answer 5

I understand where you're coming from. Some say they'd rather believe in God, die and be wrong than not believe, die and be wrong. In other words, believing is a win-win situation.

I do believe...but I question or doubt things often. I just keep seeking. I think if I were stranded somewhere alone or alone in any desperate situation...I would call out to God for help. Wouldn't just about anyone else do the same? For me, that says a lot.

Answer 6

Need to think about the history of mankind. When we started living in groups, the leaders were the ones who knew the most. So if they had no answer to important questions no one would follow them. When asked "why are we here" " why can't I sleep with your wife" "why can't I kill Henry?" religion is the easiest answer.

The first religions had many gods, trees rocks animals ect. They taught us important lessons and helped us to live together in harmony. The problems started when people began fighting over which truth is the right one. And until people understand that all religions that teach peaceful existance are equally valueable and learn to get along, we are in for a long slow ride :(

Answer 7

I was taught to believe in a god, but I don't anymore. I always think it would be so much easier to have a god to pray to for hope or blame things on, but I'd be lying to myself. I just can't accept that premise as being true.

Answer 8

I have a paperclip and some lint for the collection plate.

"some are believers because of their beliefs"
Oh, really.

Answer 9

faith in God has nothing to do with religion, at least for me, as religion is man made and God is real.

Answer 10

Religion was created to keep us safe until we learn to think for ourselves. Its not the same as Faith