2007-09-08 22:17:28 · 8 answers · asked by busybee 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Definitely!
They run religion like a business nowadays.
They scare devotees by preaching about Eternal Damnation and Hells fire and make them contribute their hard earn money to build bigger and taller churches.
Why do anyone have to go to church to pray? Aren't God omnipresent? Can't He receive your prayer from anywhere? Stop going to churches and stop giving your money senselessly to religious organizations. Give to the needy children in Africa would be a better thing to do if you care to make a difference in someone's life today.
2007-09-08 22:26:29 · answer #1 · answered by Diablo 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes and No.
Religion itself does not need an organisation to survive. It resides in people's hearts. But the knowledge of God is not something that is inborn. People need to acquire it from the scriptures and someone who is familiar with them to interpret them. There are many scriptures (of different religions) with many interpretations of them. This process of education is best served by organisations.
2007-09-08 22:36:29 · answer #2 · answered by Andy Roberts 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
See the Shortcomings of Institutionalized Christianity
http://www.bcbsr.com/topics/institute.html
2007-09-09 01:09:28 · answer #3 · answered by Steve Amato 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Religion is a congregation of r eligous people who believe in God and His teachings in the bible. It is likewise an organization to know the truth about God and to know the truth about his teachings in the bible.
jtm
2007-09-08 22:23:38 · answer #4 · answered by Jesus M 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes...because "religion" is about establishing rules on how to earn your own salvation.
Christianity in its purest form is not "religion", it is about personal relationship being reconcilled. It's about understanding we can't "earn" our way, but are "given" salvation.
2007-09-09 00:24:28 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, without constant indoctrination and threatning of it followers all of them would in time realize the total absurdity of gods.
2007-09-08 22:20:50 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
First off I have to say this to you and all who are reading this;
Rom 1:8; First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world. And secondly. 1Cr 1:4 I thank my God always on your behalf, for the grace of God which is given you by Jesus Christ;
And it’s a sad thing to say, but the parents of little children are forcing them to learn false teachings that men conjured up as the truth in isolated teaching institutions disguised as religions. And it is to be understood that if these individuals ( student children ) wanted to look somewhere else for what they believed in about the One True God, they would do so under a threat of excommunication of one sort or another, or death.
As it is also sad, however a fact, that through torture, intense isolation, comfort depravation, drug therapies, and heavily propagandized dogmas,
( to be memorized before receiving food or water,) a man can un-teach anything another man has taught.
Not so with what our Lord God teaches a person, because what He teaches is written on our hearts slate, where neither spirit controlled men or evil spirits of Satan, can get at them.
Psa 94:6:11 He who planted the ear, shall He not hear? He who formed the eye, shall He not see? He who instructs the nations, shall He not correct he who teaches man knowledge? The LORD knows the thoughts of man, that they are futile.
1Cr 1:27 But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; ergo the motto; “O” Death, where is thy sting now” because who can be afraid of death, when their Father is the God of Life and Love?
Mat 16:18 And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build My church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
( our Lord Jesus' Church, not any man made organizational institution.)
The true church of God, through our Lord Jesus Christ, lays within the hearts and minds of all the men, women and children throughout the whole world where the might and powers of men and Satan cannot get at it. It is not a building of cold stones and mortar nor an institution of calloused administrators and professors, it is alive and well, catholic yet hidden and even the gates of hell cannot prevail against it.
( All you need is Love, to Love the God of Love, my dove!)
The blueprints of wars are drawn up in the temples of men before they are ever prosecuted in the field.
"Too many are willing to "die" for HATE and too few are willing to "Live" for Love."
Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
Do not love to hate evil more than you love to love the good, Conqure through forgiveness, aquire with Love!
"What time Fate's tyranny shall most oppress thee Perpend!
One day shall joy thee, one distress thee!"
Just make sure of thy evil ways, to amend!
And God bless you in everything you endeavor through Jesus Christ our Lord and God my friend.
2007-09-08 22:56:15 · answer #7 · answered by iamh2ok9 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, God will keep it going.
Psh.
2007-09-08 22:22:35 · answer #8 · answered by Shaggy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋