why can't religion just go in a box in the bottom of the earth and vanish from our memories?

Question

I feel this world is so...un-real..and confusing..and pointless at times. But I sit here and think of this world like i'm looking down at this big round mass we call earth..and i just see people controlling everyone- and telling people all the answers to the world by a book that was written by humans...everyone is constantly fighting...their pride is more important then their compassion ..everyone is afraid to just say "okay, we really dont know anything about anything”, we were brought on this earth..and everyone tells us things putting us in different directions of how to feel and view this earth...we get pulled this way and that way- just because we're afraid to sit down and realize that we’re all not what we really thought…people were just cheating us and telling us lies so that we don’t go crazy..…and they are scared them selves too…we’re all afraid. But why limit our selves to bullshit lies of human existence? Perhaps our world would go crazy and order would not be obtained…perhaps we’re safer with religion? Yet I feel this whole ignorance of one religion hating others and their egoistic views will bite them selves in the *** in the long run …but that will take time..i’m sure my generation will be dead when that happens. But maybe we can teach each other to love without religion? Help me out..what do you think? Theres gotta be more out there who think the same way.

Answer 1

There's a scientific reason for the religious experience....it's in our genes, more particularly located in the primitive limbic system of our brains, the last remnants of your reptillion past. The area where our raw emotions reside, including the irrational belief systems.

The 'religious' experience is triggered by deep depression, starvation, near death, or other highly charged situations. The 'born-again' christian phenomena has a scientific basis....yes, your limbic system. Why has man evolved this mechanism you might ask? Simple...it was a survival mechanism of our cave man ancestors to cope with a hostile and unknown universe.

The cerebral cortex is a more recent development. Here is where our rational and logical thought processes take place. It is here that the atheists have found their basis in reality.

In reality, there is no sentient, omnipresent, omnipotent supernatural being or force....therefore all the inequities and misery of the world will always persist, no matter how hard some try to get that limbic brain of ours to work...sorry

Answer 2

So its not a question- Its a religious rant?

As you mature and study theology and not condemn it, you will see that its only historical "governing" spiritual bodies. That is the "universal" government, is organized religion. You can take it anywhere and apply a "code of behavior" in the name of God.

These are actually cultures that fall under the heading of religion, because the "USE" their God as the catalyst for their actions. Good or bad.

Most times we only see the zealots and the "bad types" of religious types, sad but true, the others that are the majority are quiet good folks doing their best to live a life and reach a personal level of spiritual awakening.

So what do you think about that take on things?

Answer 3

what the great teachers taught us are the same. only difference is different teachers come from different cultures. so they teach and explain things in a different way but the essence is the same. the problem is the people. they are so narrow minded and incapable of understanding the real essence of the teaching. they only grasp the outward appearance of the teacher and the teaching. they start worshiping the teacher as a god and that is how a religion is formed. human mind is at its infancy. it takes more time to evolve into a mature mind. only a few minds like u and me thinks differently. there are few people like us. majority of the people are narrow minded. so we will have to wait for all the man kind to evolve. i am sure it will not happen in our time. we will be gone by the time it happens.

Answer 4

You need a greater sense of perspective in regards to the human condition itself, rather than seeking a scapegoat. I would recommend that you consider Jon Glover's presentation in this regard entitled "Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century." Like most moderns, you have been conditioned to accept religion as a kind of ultimate explanation for human misery and further, your experience of religion is likely in terms of the forms of ideological driven pieties that are themselves modernism, rather than actual expressions of authentic religiousity. Scapegoats, used as a source of "ultimate" explanation, be they religion or something else, seems an easy answer to explain the source of human woes, but like conspiracy theories, scapegoats are merely deceptions that mask our own unresolved prejudices and give us the satisfaction of a catharsis. This catharsis is not rationality, but an a ego-driven confirmation of our own narrowness. In terms of the often grim situation of the world and humanities failure to "learn to love" the fault for this is not in simply religion, politics, economics, science, or any single human endeavor, the enemy is ourselves. And finally, when you look at the world, one cannot but become conscious of what is called the "mysterium iniquitatis"-- the mystery of evil. But there perhaps another mystery, much more profound, that sadly, seems to give us less pause for reflection-- the mystery that given the ways of our world, why goodness seems to persist at all.

Answer 5

The world itself will not become better or worse, because there is no such thing. Plus humans will probably all be dead within a few hundred years anyway.

But religion is all false crap, you are correct.

Answer 6

better stop thinking weird things it makes you go nutz you know why we need religion ad stuff but you are regretting it
follow a diary to know you more first

Answer 7

?!?AMEN?!?