To enter GOD's Kingdom and that your religion provides people a way to be nice give to chairity then the Atheists on this site who say
they are very nice people, give to charity and have no need for GOD do not believe he exsists then what does your religion say about them?
I am asking these questiion not to be confrontational because I believe that all religions have good things to say, Cults are another thing and are bad...
If the purpose of your faith is to teach how people should live good lives then it does not address Atheism because they do not need religion to live a good life.
Maybe your religion is just to bind you culturally and traditionally because thier has to be an ultimate end to a religious faith and a way for all people to understand how to acheive thier eternal destiny.
Muslims here differ on what they say by what I am reading from thier posts.
2007-08-13 10:27:03 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Religion = A traditional and cultural work or effort by man to show that he or she believes in God. This is fruitless, empty, has many flaws, and sinful outcomes.
True Relationship with God = One who strives each day to talk, walk, and honor God in all his or her ways. They live specifically for the will and the purpose that God has placed on their lives and do not care what the world majority thinks of them. They act with love and love the wisdom of the Word of God - the Bible. These are the ones who truly represent the Kingdom of God.
2007-08-13 10:34:15 · answer #1 · answered by drivn2excelchery 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
No one NEEDS religion to live a good life and be a good person.
Some religions do a better job then others of providing guidelines for being good--but ultimately it is up to the individual of whatever faith.
My religion says nothing about atheists--our first and only law is that we may do as we choose provided we harm none. Atheists are some of the most harmless people on the planet from our perspective. Far more dangerous are those who preach lies and elevate morals to the level of ethics and whims to the level of morals, who make it easy to justify marginalizing or outright criminalizing those who do not practice as they do, who seek secular power in order to enforce religious doctrine.
Why does there have to be an ultimate end for any faith? Certainly it would be nice for all people "understand how to achieve their eternal destiny", but why does religion necessarily have to be a part of that?
2007-08-13 10:39:18 · answer #2 · answered by Jewel 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
All religion is used by Humans to bind people culturally. They are also used to control people, and to help them justify cruel acts.
In reality, humans don't need religion to live good lives, Morality is not determined by faith. It never has been. There are similar Morals throughout the world, in nations where religions are quite different.
A native in New Guinea doesn't need the ten commandments to know that killing and stealing is wrong. They have their own laws and customs to deal with people who steal and kill, the bible didn't create that Morality, humans did, because Morals are really just rules that make sense for society.
Most Christians don't follow the OT law and many of the dictates in the NT, because they don't make sense in the times we live in. Women can talk in church, yet in the NT Paul is very clear about them having to take a quiet roll without opinion.
Our morals as a society change as a majority of us find that there are things that are good for all. Religion tends to muddle morality up, so that people start sacrificing humans to Gods for penance (Mayans), or condemning family members who disagree with a belief system(Christians) or being anti-Semitic (Muslims) or being anti Muslim (Jews, Hindus)
Non religious humans tend not to that stuff force them to hurt others, that is why the world will one day be better off without Religion.
2007-08-13 10:36:47 · answer #3 · answered by ɹɐǝɟsuɐs Blessed Cheese Maker 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes. Religion binds to culture and tradition. Which is why you see people here contrasting religion with a 'relationship with God.'
As for 'eternal destiny' well, some religions address this, some do not. We all choose a path. Just that some have goals that are further away than others. IMO.
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2007-08-13 10:42:29 · answer #4 · answered by Wood Uncut 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
ah an oldie but a goodie,
people wiser then i have been struggling w/ this issue before i was, and after I’m no more, so lets see what notes i can add to the tune
there are total jerks in heaven, yep that’s right
there are absolute saints (saints in the nice person, not venerated way) in hell
what? Why? Basically the awful truth is non of us deserve heaven. And hell wasn’t designed for us ether. We were designed for heaven, but haven is holly and perfect and sinful me can’t get in, and I’m eternal, so I’ve got to go some where, and in my flawed sinful nature, their’s only one place fore me and that’s hell.
Jesus paid the price for all the sin I have and will do. So I can ether apologize for the life I’ve been, hurting him me and others, and thank him for the fixing in me he will do. Or not. I wish some times there was another way, but the stark reality is, theirs not, it sucks, I’ve got to trust God, that he can, I cant, and I’ve got to let him. But that’s the way it is
Any one who says it’s different is just trying to avoid the awful truth. Jesus isn’t the only way to morality, he’s the only way to God. Morality is easy the perfect life is impossible.
2007-08-13 10:40:56 · answer #5 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"If the purpose of your faith is to teach how people should live good lives then it does not address Atheism because they do not need religion to live a good life."
That's not the purpose of my faith.
The purpose of my faith is to guide ME on how *I* can have a strong relationship with the Divine, and how *I* can best follow my path and walk in balance.
It has nothing to do with trying to convince others that THEY should follow the same path.
There are many paths to the same goal, and many ways to live a "good life" that don't require someone to be Pagan.
At the core, the basic ideals of "Be nice to others" isn't religion-specific.
2007-08-13 10:32:34 · answer #6 · answered by Nandina (Bunny Slipper Goddess) 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i'm no longer searching for converts to my ideals. i desire you to have faith what you think because of the fact it makes you satisfied and which you could experience stable approximately your self. i'm a Pagan and the two you think or you do no longer. in case you do no longer, that is your privilege. I see no objective in changing persons. i glance at cultures that have been destroyed over the centuries by way of could be "do gooders", who killed others because of the fact they did no longer have faith in a undeniable being or religious theory. Do you recognize all the historic past that has been lost because of the fact cultures have been destroyed? we can only guess with regard to the inhabitants of Easter Island. issues like this only destroy my heart. And look what the white guy did to the nearby individuals, I only desire to cry over that. NO, i do no longer desire you to transform, given which will injury, the genuine you.
2016-11-12 05:50:38 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think what Jesus tried to teach us is that through Him we have a direct line to God. God and religion is something that we have been trying to come to terms with ever since we can remember recording history. Here we are mankind who can't even create a bug... have been creating God's all throughout history
2007-08-13 10:45:57 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
religion and scriptures by themselves are just a bunch of old books gathering dust and cobwebs on a shelf somewhere.
its the people that read and try to force others to see the same way they do that are the problem.
2007-08-13 10:32:14 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
enlightenment is an inside job, whatever road we travel down is the journey we need to be on until the next. Blessings.
2007-08-13 10:32:27 · answer #10 · answered by Carpathian Mage 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋