Why can't religion just be acknowledged in a personal atmosphere?

Question

To me, religion is just a business enterprise. Someone comes up with a religious plan, then they captialize on it by advertising and getting as many people as they can to join their religion.

They use the bible as the authoritive document to justify their religion, then they might sway from it to complete their special religion. So why can't people just praise religion by themselves? They could just sit at home, and pray to whoever, and keep it to themselves. There should be no need to spread their religion to anyone.

I understand helping people, but religion is just a belief, and should be kept to itself. Religions who try and get people to join on it's bandwagon remind me of comission only sales jobs who try and hire as many people as it can.

Think people! Forget about the purpose of life, or the reasoning you have come to believe. You can dedicate your life to a religion but not include other people in it. It's that simple. Believe in what you want and leave others out of it.

Answer 1

It's a pyramid scheme. When the members recruit more members it gets them "heaven points," and the religious "leaders" get more money and more power.

Answer 2

1. Things with evidence to show they exist exist. And no, "non-material" things don't exist. 2.I see no evidence there is any "non-physical dimension to reality." 3. Evidence shows *our* universe had a beginning, about 13.8 billion years ago. 4. No. There's no evidence of any such thing. 5. No. There's no evidence of any such thing. 6. Of course. We "know" things when we can verify them by evidence. 7. It varies for everyone. For me, it's lots of things (wife, kids, community, learning, etc.). 8. Yes, every society has some sort of value system. They either make it up or borrow from another society and modify it. 9. No. They have "built-in" instincts, but "right" and "wrong" are human ideas, not absolutes. 10. "Values?" Things that are true (and have evidence to SHOW they're true, like 1+1=2) are true for everyone. Things that don't have evidence to show they're "true" aren't "true" for anyone. 11. Rational thought, concern for my community and world, and enlightened self-interest. 12. No. That would require absolutes of right and wrong, which don't exist. 13. "Values" -- yes. "Truth" -- no. Facts are facts, and not relative. 14. I don't agree that the "loving thing" is necessarily the best or smartest thing to do. So I disagree with the statement. 15. There's no evidence to show any claimed god exists. 16. I don't. 17. A collection of ancient mythical stories written by a tribe from the middle east. No, it plays no part in my life. 18. It's completely silly -- ten seconds examining the claims of various religions clearly shows they're not the same at all. 19. It means to be of the species homo sapiens. There are no "lower" animals, we're animals but we are different, that's why we're our own species. No, there's no evidence any "soul" exists. 20. No. It shows mythical bible stories to be mythical, but most intelligent people already knew that. There's no evidence any claimed god exists, or ever created or guided anything -- so claiming one does and did is rather silly. First name: Paul Peace.

Answer 3

A part of many religions is getting people to see the light and convert though. It's considered good to get other people to join in your praise of whatever deity and save them from the fires of hell or whatever.

There are some that aren't like that though. Sadly, you never hear about them.

Answer 4

For a sensible person, the one and only question that really matters is: Is the religion true? If you believe it's true, then you must do what it says. If you don't, then you have no obligation to do anything it says.

In the case of Christianity, the main thing it says is that we are all sinners, and if you don't want to be punished eternally for your sins, you must repent and put your faith in Christ, who can save you from your sins. Now, if you believe this is true, you have an obligation to share it with others in order to help them to avoid being punished eternally for their sins. If you don't believe it's true, then you can keep it to yourself, or ignore it, or whatever.

So the simple answer to your question is, if you're a Christian, you can't just keep it to yourself because you believe it's true, and since you believe it's true, you must do all you can to share it with others.

Answer 5

I think we all the same.

You say : Why dont /why cant ..........xyz
The xyz = what you think/believe/disbelieve = asking what it shoud be according to what you think , whatever it is.

TheChristians or muslims or Budhist say :
No, we believe that : ........pqrs ...
The pqrs = what they think /believe/disbelieve .. whetever it is.

You try to make them accepting you, as you are . And you tell them why you accept what you believe/ disbelieve ; You do it strongly and sometimes telling how stupid they are by believing some stupid believe.
What is that means.
To me it means you are forcing yourself and the believers to believe what you believe which is not to believe the existence of God.

They try to make you accept what they believe and they explain why they believe;

The believers quote verses,
The atheists give excuses.

To me, Atheists try to get as many followers as the Christians do.
But atheists take people to no where but arguments ,whilst Christians take people to Christ and hope for savior.

You are just the same,mate.
Thats what I see here, after been here long enough.

Answer 6

Because it necessarily gets involved in other facets of life. What about prayers in schools, or mention of god on coinage or in the pledge of allegiance? What about the abortion dispute, or dispensation by pharmacies of pregnancy prevention measures? All of these things have religious underpinnings; all affect non-religious activity.

Answer 7

You probably know hundreds of people who do not know the purpose of life. The more you know, the more God expects you to use that knowledge to help others. James said, "Anyone who knows the right thing to do, but does not do it, is sinning".