what is diffrence between Religious and non Religious Peoples? who is spending their life without Purpose?

Question

with good reason , If want points.

Answer 1

I don't like the word 'religious'. The Pharasees were religious, but not very spiritual. So to answer your question, religious people do tend to waste their lives without any real purpose. Spiritual people, however, are entirely different. Scripture is FULL of people who lived vibrant lives, who had a real relationship with God. They had a very purpose-filled life. As to the non-religious, (I assume you are talking about atheists) they can indeed have quite fulfilling lives, at least for a while. There is no reason why they cannot dedicate their lives to any particular purpose. Is that purpose worthwhile? THAT would be the question to ask.

Answer 2

Whether a person is religious or not does not mean that their life either has or has not purpose. Non religious people can be kind and compassionate and add a great deal to our society as well as being just the opposite and being a drain on our society. This same thing holds true to religious people. If a person is truly serving God, then their life will be an example of kindness, love and understanding of others. However, just because a person goes to church regularly or claims to be religious does not mean that they are actually serving God. All human beings with or without God have the ability to live a purposeful life although I personally believe that the true Christian (my own particular religion) will often go above and beyond what the non religious person will or are able to do because they do not have to face things alone. God does do miracles and God does give the true Christian strength beyond understanding to do the things that he wants done.

Answer 3

Are you actually trying to say that someone without religious beliefs has no purpose to their life? How narrow-minded a viewpoint can that be? You must be joking, right? Just because smart people don't follow all that christian (or whichever) garbage does not mean that there is no purpose to their life!! How do you know that those that follow some silly religion are the ones that are in the wrong? The only true way to learn this answer is to die-and before I do that I have this life to live, with much to learn. And none of what I need to learn involves any type of religious mumbo-jumbo made up by some guy used to control the masses in ancient times. Just my personal opinion. Thanks for asking.

Answer 4

Neither group is spending life without purpose as long as they are enjoying the path that they chose. Non-religious people have the advantage of not having to worry about a higher power staring into their personal life and judging them based on every little thing they do. Religious people however, are concerned with a higher power which may or probably may not exist, which could potentially impair the "earthly" fun that could be had.

Answer 5

An individual makes their own purpose in life, for some that is their religious beliefs but many ave other life purposes outside the religious realm. Mine is to become a loving and supporting father to my future children and help out as many people who have seen the depths I have overcome their struggles.

Answer 6

Religious people may have a more codified pattern but that doesn't guarantee that they adhere to it anymore than a non religious person would by definition be promiscuous or a drunkard. If Mother Teresa had been an atheist, would her work have been any less benificial?
Purpose in life is determined by what is necessary.
Sometimes we don't see our purpose until its passed.
Putting the God label on something doesn't make it better.
Are we really better people if we react in kindness and generousity only out of a fear of Hell or out of a desire to help others?

Answer 7

I think non-religious people have less "purpose" in their lives, and I'm saying this as someone who is very anti-relgion.

On the flip side if there is a God, I just can't see the main purpose in life being "to love God"

Jesus basically says there is two reasons to live this life "to love God, and to love your neighbour." Now I can see "loving one another" as a purpose for life, but it doesn't seem to me like we're doing that. If we were there wouldn't be homeless on the streets of the richest countries in the world would there.

Then there's the idea that everyone has an individual purpose in life, maybe it is one quick action you do that changes the world, or a life of work that will make this world better, but really there are too many people who have a negative effect on this planet for everyone to have a pre-determined plan from a "God".

Answer 8

Non-religious people are at risk of spending their lives without purpose but it is not entailed by being non-religious. The religious always have a purpose of some kind to their lives but is it a good purpose?

Answer 9

Religious people follow a set of doctrines and dogmas. Non-religious people do not. That does not mean that they do not have beliefs, it just means that often times those beliefs do not follow a strict code of doctrine. I'm not sure about your second question. Both religious and non-religious people can live their lives without purpose and both can live with purpose.

Answer 10

I think it's probably equally distributed. There are religious people who have purpose, and there are non-religious people have purpose. And there are those people, religious or not, who aspire to nothing. I don't think religion has anything to do with having a life with purpose. Unless, of course, your purpose in life is religion. And in my opinion - that's not a very good purpose.