Religion is nothing more then the traces of the first form of goverment created by man.
2007-09-18 22:25:48 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Most governments make use of religion to control the common people.
Just quote the correct verse from the relevant religious book related to the action, and the government's control is further entrenched!
I mean, there's nothing much to expect from sheeple.
2007-09-18 22:32:53 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
DO see:
www.religioustolerance.org/chr_jcpa5.htm
Here you will see where the biblical stories REALLY originated.
Horus was amazingly similar to the Abrahamic JC.
Whatever your religion or lack of, see the table of similarities between Horus and JC contained there. THIS may make you question your faith and not your simplistic statement.
Religion began as a form of protection (as if) needed and actively sought by very ancient mankind. Protection from events tnat they did not understand and feared. A thunderstorm with lightning must have been terrifying. Nothing to do with government. However, control over the populace by fear and via religion as an instrument in later years does become a fact..
2007-09-19 05:42:30 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The evidence indicates otherwise. This is almost certainly true with regard to our concept of God, but certainly not religious belief in general. Nor is it likely that religion is the evolution of sympatheic magic.
2007-09-19 05:53:34 · answer #3 · answered by NONAME 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That does not make me question my faith at all.
Your statement makes no sense at all.
Religion is not a "trace of government."
2007-09-19 05:55:14 · answer #4 · answered by batgirl2good 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hmmm. No.
It's not. Let me give it a few more moments here.
Nope. It's still not making me question anything except what possible point you are attempting to make here.
2007-09-19 05:32:57 · answer #5 · answered by RIFF 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
That's why we must listen, trust and obey God and Lord Jesus!
Then you have no question to your faith in trusting and obeying the LORD GOD at all!
John 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
John 14:7 If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.
As all is accountable to God and Lord Jesus, Romans 14:12, for salvation belongs to God, to Him alone, no other way to be saved! Jonah 2:9; psalms 3:8.
So, this is my question back to you: Do you believe denomination invented by man can saved you? Do you believe only God, even Lord Jesus has the power ot save? Not of what you do by your own?
For Lord Jesus said;
Php 2:13 For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
Php 2:14 Do all things without murmurings and disputings:
Php 2:15 That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;
Php 2:16 Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither labored in vain.
Therefore, we can do nothing to save ourselves without God helping us;
Eph 2:7 That in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.
Eph 2:8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
Eph 2:9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.
Eph 2:10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
2007-09-19 05:47:38 · answer #6 · answered by Ephesians 2:8 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Ooooohhhh, my faith is so shaken...and your point is????? Of course religion functioned as government, it still does for many people. Some Muslim states for example, and the Amish technically as well, not to mention some others. Separation of Church and State is a relatively new thing. Duh. I rather think government is watered down religion.
2007-09-19 05:30:49 · answer #7 · answered by Lucky S 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I'm kinda disappointed in the details of your question. I thought I was going to read something challenging.
Sending you a smile to help pick up your day.
2007-09-19 05:46:04 · answer #8 · answered by Prof Fruitcake 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
weird, since the first traces of religion predate government by several thousand years.
2007-09-19 05:31:12 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 2⤋
How does this make anyone question their faith? It's an opinion with no facts behind it.
2007-09-19 05:34:33 · answer #10 · answered by Jason P 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋