Does religion turn people away from God?

Question

There may or may not be a God, a soul, an afterlife. But the religions that assert these ideas as facts make ridiculous claims that could not survive in a rational mind. Do the flaws of Christianty, Islam, etc turn people off to the possibly reasonable search for spirituality?

Answer 1

Y
E
S

Answer 2

Very exciting question. I truthfully have been waiting for an prolonged time to work out if diverse religions initiate proclaiming different religions are governed or guided by utilising devil, to assist in gaining new individuals and expanding their administration and effect on modern-day club. of direction, Moslems and Christians have been at this for hundreds of years. greater at present, it particularly is been the Protestant religions badmouthing the Catholics. Now i observed the Christians are commencing to badmouth the greater severe fundamentalist between their sect. Hoepfully, all this conflict will proceed to splinter religions, to circumvent any international faith from rising, which may be risky to person freedoms. i think of there could be a God right here at paintings.

Answer 3

How can you put so much faith in a bunch of books that were merely copies of copies of word of mouth stories passed down through generations, changed every time it changed storytellers to fit the person telling the story.

Seriously, its just the same as if 2000 years from now, a small group of people found a collection of harry potter books and claimed that this harry person must have been a messiah. Now imagine that those books are retold hundreds of times until there is nearly nothing of the original stories left. Now you have someone who REWRITES the books again, making sure to tell people over and over again to obey their parents in the books. You have a whole new bible. Same principle.
Before you blindly follow, look at the facts. Are you going to believe what your brain tells you, or a book a dead pope rewrote hundreds of years ago to fit what he wanted it to say?????
Out of every single religion out there, christianity makes the least sense.
How about this...Jesus was a simple man. He didnt think he was a savior. He was just telling people to look for the truth. Thats all. He wanted people to seek out wisdom, not follow god blindly. Unfortunately, churches rewrote the books and made him magical, and therefore a perfect person to misquote and tell the message THEY want you to hear.
Pathetic. If Jesus were still here, he would tell you how you are all wrong.
You are wrong for going to church. You are wrong for tithing. You are wrong for blindly believing. Jesus wanted to you to search for the truth. So search for what you can prove.

Answer 4

In some cases false teachings could turn a person away from the truth about true religion..... but also hypocracy in so called religions or some churches also turn people away from God.

Its kinda hard for the truth to shine through with all of the false teachings thats been going on for so long but we have to remember Satan is a Master of deception thats what he wants people to do turn away from true religion & from God but you must not let him win keep seeking & you shall find the truth & the truth will set you free.John 8:32.

Answer 5

You know, I am a non-believer, but I can see your point.

Certainly man-made laws in religions can cause people to disagree with religion and by religions close partnership with a diety, they could also turn away from that deity.

I know some religions have rules about days of the week, what foods can be eaten, what clothing can be worn, musical preferences, dancing is/is not taboo, etc....... I think these rules cause people to see the absurdity of religion.

Guilt by association....religion linked to the deity.....the deity is penalized too.

Answer 6

I've found religious people have turned me away from religion and towards a quest for deeper spirituality more than JUST religion. It's the twists and perversions of the original teachings - the assumptions and hypocricies....the non-stop prosthletizing...ah yes, the peace of spirituality...MUCH better!

Answer 7

Well Islam is supposidly the fastest growing religion in the world, but I haven't seen the actual stats on it though.
For me personally, Christians have driven me so far from Christianity, I won't even walk into a church. I would rather eat glass.

Answer 8

I don't think it is the flaws themselves that turn people away. For me personally, it is peoples attitudes about the factual nature of their personal religion and how others are supposed to believe what they do that is more of the problem for me!

Answer 9

Sure. It did me for a long time!

But when I found out that Christianity is not really about "religion", that is; it is not about "Father this and that" , lighting candles, statues, Mass, praying in public, counting rosaries, praying repetitively, holidays, Easter, Christmas, trying to 'be good', trying to act a certain way, etc, then I found it easier to accept.

Answer 10

Do Buddhists believe in a creator god?

No, we do not. There are several logical reasons for this. The Buddha, like modern scientists, sociologists and psychologists, believed that religious ideas and especially the god idea have their origins in fear. The Buddha says:

"Gripped by fear men go to sacred mountains, sacred groves, sacred trees and shrines." *Dhammpada 188

Primitive man found himself in a dangerous and hostile world, the fear of wild animals, of not being able to find enough food, of injury or disease, and of natural phenomena like thunder, lightning and volcanoes was constantly with him. Finding no security, he created the idea of god in order to give him comfort in good times, courage in times of danger and consolation when things went wrong. To this day, you will notice that people become more religious at times of crises, you will hear them say that the belief in a god gives them the strength they need to deal with life. You will hear them explain that they believe in god because they prayed in time of need and their prayer was answered. All this seems to support the Buddha’s teaching that the god-idea is a response to fear and frustration. The Buddha taught us to try to understand our fears, to lessen our desires and to calmly and courageously accept the things we cannot change. He replaced fear, not with irrational belief but with rational understanding.

The second reason the Buddha did not believe in a creator god is because there does not seem to be any evidence to support this idea. There are numerous religions, all claiming that they alone have god’s words preserved in their holy book, that they alone understand god’s nature, that their god exists and that the gods of other religions do not. Some claim that god is masculine, some that she is feminine and others that it is neuter. They are all satisfied that there is ample evidence to prove the existence of their god but they laugh in disbelief at the evidence other religions use to prove the existence of another god. It is not surprising that with so many different religions spending so many centuries trying to prove the existence of their gods that still no real, concrete, substantial or irrefutable evidence has been found. Buddhists suspend judgement until such evidence is forthcoming.

The third reason the Buddha did not believe in a creator god is that the belief is not necessary. Some claim that the belief in a god is necessary in order to explain the origin of the universe. But this is not so. Science has very convincingly explained how the universe came into being without having to introduce the god-idea. Some claim that belief in god is necessary to have a happy, meaningful life. Again we can see that this is not so. There are millions of Atheists, free-thinkers and Buddhists, who live useful, happy and meaningful lives without belief in a creator god. Some claim that belief in god’s power is necessary because humans, being weak, do not have the strength to help themselves. Once again, the evidence indicates the opposite. One often hears of people who have overcome great disabilities and handicaps, enormous odds and difficulties through their own inner resources, through their own efforts and without belief in a god. Some claim that god is necessary in order to give man salvation. But this argument only holds good if you accept the theological concept of salvation and Buddhists do not accept such a concept. Based on his own experience, the Buddha saw that each human being had the capacity to purify the mind, develop infinite love and compassion and perfect understanding. He shifted attention from the heavens to the heart and encouraged us to find solutions to our problems through self-understanding.

But if there is no creator god how did the universe get here?

All religions have myths and stories which attempt to answer this question. In ancient times, when man simply did not know, such myths were adequate, but in the 20th century, in the age of physics, astronomy and geology, such myths have been superseded by scientific fact. Science has explained the origin of the universe without recourse to the god-idea.

.

Answer 11

Sometimes.
"Work out your own salvation, with fear and trembling."
I had to be willing to open myself to the possibility that I was wrong and I had to look past what I saw as the wrongs of religious people in order to find the real Christ. It can be done.