Religion=Foolishness?

Question

Well does it?

Answer 1

If anything it reflects a certain level of ignorance.--Gods have always been created to explain the unknown, and what does God explain today?, Life after death, Life, and the origins of the universe. All of which are unknown. But religion will soon fall when those answers are solved, just as the Corn god did when we found out the real reason it grows.

Answer 2

If it becomes a substitute for thought, reason, kindness to ones fellow human being, yes.

If it becomes a shield to hide behind when someone has committed a crime, yes.

If it becomes a reason to justify abhorrent behavior such as bigotry, misogyny, murder, or torture, yet.

If it is forced upon people with no regard to their own culture or beliefs, yes.

If it unites people around a common, caring group, no.

If the believers actually practice what they preach as far as tolerance, good will towards others, helping the poor, etc, then no.

If the believers respect the beliefs of others who hold different beliefs, and try to find ways where they can work together, no.

Answer 3

I guess I'll be wishy-washy about my answer.
Religion does equal foolishness if some fool is using it in a wrong way, any kind of wrong way.
Religion does not equal foolishness if it is wholly respected.

Answer 4

That's harsh - *Indoctrination* leaves little choice. ... But I also need to point out that the 1st post, by "usafatceo", is effectively lying by taking Darwin's quote out of context. (See Source):

'The quote is taken out of context. Darwin *answered* the seeming problem he introduced. Darwin continues, '

"Yet reason tells me, that if numerous gradations from a perfect and complex eye to one very imperfect and simple, each grade being useful to its possessor, can be shown to exist; if further, the eye does vary ever so slightly, and the variations be inherited, which is certainly the case; and if any variation or modification in the organ be ever useful to an animal under changing conditions of life, then the difficulty of believing that a perfect and complex eye could be formed by natural selection, though insuperable by our imagination, can hardly be considered real. How a nerve comes to be sensitive to light, hardly concerns us more than how life itself first originated; but I may remark that several facts make me suspect that any sensitive nerve may be rendered sensitive to light, and likewise to those coarser vibrations of the air which produce sound." (Darwin 1872, 143-144)

Answer 5

No - to have NO religion is foolishness!@~

Answer 6

No, a religion is a belief, which technically is an opinion, which everyone is entitled to. No one can tell anyone else that their religion is wrong.

Answer 7

Chew on the thoughts God has about it:

"The fool has said in his heart there is no God."

"Is this the way you repay the LORD, O foolish and unwise people? Is he not your Father, your Creator, who made you and formed you?"

"He said to them, "How foolish you are, and how slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken!"

"For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened."

"For the foolishness of God is wiser than man's wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than man's strength."

Answer 8

Irreligion=Foolishness
True religion=Onelessfool

Answer 9

"To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances---

for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic observation---

could have been formed by natural selection seems, I confess, absurd in the highest degree."

Charles Darwin Origin of the Species, Chapter 6

Answer 10

yes it is...

the message of the cross is foolishness to those that do not believe... it only means something (or everthing) to those that do believe...

peace!