2007-06-12 09:50:16 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Inquisition... Less Jews and women.
Crusades... Less Arabs
American Evangelicism... President Bush.
...Ok, i'm too creeped out now. I can't go on.
2007-06-12 09:53:55 · answer #1 · answered by Eldritch 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
You have the Israelis and the Palestinians = war and hate.
You have the Catholics, Protestants, Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormans, and etc. = arguements and wars.
Organized religion is man’s attempt to please their gods and control other people. Organized religion has rules, rituals, laws and doctorines to follow. Every religion believes that they have the answers for redemption. The answers for religion lies within man’s ability to follow it’s teachings for his salvation.
Jesus is God’s way to reach down to mankind with love, forgiveness, acceptance and grace. Jesus is not a religion. He is God and He is the way for man to have fellowship with God.
When we come to Jesus, we are full of the original sin nature and the sins that we have committed. He cleanses us when we accept Him as our Lord and Savior and repent of those sins.
Our redemption and salvation results from His willful and sacrificial death on the cross to take our place for our sin nature and our sins. He is the only atonement possible because He is without sin. Jesus does it for us because we are incapable of following any religion perfectly. He did follow God's law perfectly.
Coming to Jesus, not religion, is what God requires for us to become forgiven, sanctified, and have the relationship with God that He intended for us from the start. Jesus is the only way to God.
James 1:27 states, Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
2007-06-12 10:06:28 · answer #2 · answered by 4HIM- Christians love 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Repression of ideas if it goes against religious doctrine.
- example: Galileo had to renounce his scientific findings because the church would brand him a heretic.
OK that is only one but it was all I could think of right now.
2007-06-12 09:55:13 · answer #3 · answered by nycguy10002 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
1) Creation of "Us and Them" thinking, with and in-group and an out-group.
2) Some charity given to poor.
2007-06-12 09:59:43 · answer #4 · answered by Joe Blow 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Death of innocent bystanders --
9/11, both gulf wars, the crusades, suicide bombers, release of nerve gas in the Tokyo subway......
Bigotry --
Nazis, KKK, Ghettos, slavery, Black Muslims ....
2007-06-12 09:58:51 · answer #5 · answered by hairypotto 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Cold war and fear to do good.
2007-06-12 09:55:04 · answer #6 · answered by ManhattanGirl 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋