Religion with a little philosophy?

Question

My views of religion since i was like 12 is still remain the same! i alwayz think most of the conflict on this world part of that conflict will involve religion. i never understand why alot of people think you most be following a religion to believe in god. i believe in god but i don't really follow any religion since i was 11yrs old i was in six grade when i was thinking why my teachers was telling don't trully believe on everything i read but the bible i should follow it 100%. i did not quetion that teacher back in my coutry when elders advising you, its rude to question your elders. my confusion is always that we just treat each other with respect; then i question respectful what is it and were one's get it? can anybody help me out on how should i take religion.
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Answer 1

You sound very well established in your faith. That is good. As a child I was taught to believe in the Bible 100 per cent. I still do. But whether you believe this or that is not so important. As long as you believe that Jesus was the son of God and that He died on the cross for your sin, then according to what I have read in the scriptures, you are saved.

We can discuss forever the events in the Bible and disagree on many points. Scholars better educated and you and I, have argued many points for many years and will continue to do this until the end of time.

May God Bless You, as you search the scriptures for Truth.

Answer 2

Most conflicts in this world now and in its history were about land and money and trade.

Religion was used as an excuse by leaders to rally support for their wars, but had religion not existed they would have just turned to something else, probably nationalism.

Even the crusades, if you really studied them, had nothing to really do with religion.


It is hard to treat others with respect that want to kill you just because some dictator is using your nation as a scapegoat to maintain power. You cant always reason with people. Sometimes you have to stop people from hurting your destroying your way of life.

Answer 3

If somebody pretends something out of experience, out of science, out of common sense, he must prove it very seriously.
For example: if I pretend that tomorrow it will snow in the desert, I must prove it much more seriously than if I pretend that tomorrow the wind will blow there by 40miles/hour.
So where are the proofs that people have souls? A soul has not yet been found, nevertheless it should be eternal and goes on living after the death, where?
In what part of the body are located these souls? How are they constituted? Where are the proofs that they will go on living after death? Who the first has invented the principle of the soul?
Why do you believe so easily totally unproved stories unable to give serious answers to questions of common sense?
And all the people who think, so as I do, that the human spirit has invented God and has attributed him innumerous intelligently to most stupidly invented qualities. God helps us, he gives us His attention. Thank you God forYour attention during all the genocides, the wars, the wars accomplished in Your Name and the organized criminality today. Hitler survived to 43 attempts, thank you my Dear Lord for having saved Hitler and let burst millions of innocent children, women and men. And having let Stalin, and Mao, and Ho-Shi-Min and other Sweepings of society doing innumerable atrocious crimes which the most ferocious beast would refuse to accomplish. Shame, shame, dislike and disdain over such a God, fortunately not my god.

Most of the major religions that pretend that there is a God-Creator of the universe believe with variations in a same sort of God. This seems to prove that the human spirit has created the principle of God.
We have not a single scientific prove that there exists a species of a presence of one God or the presence of more Gods or a system of Gods. About God we don't know anything at all. Religious people just want to be eternal and therefore they invent and have invented innumerous more or less intelligent ideas, often against all sense, about their God. Their main interest is, that they want that he lead them to that uncertainty of their totally invented eternal life.
One of these invented ideas is the principle of an existing demon responsible for all the evil in the world. Responsible for the evil in the world are men, and not the so welcome idea of a demon.
So we have a Godfather, a Holy Spirit, a Godson, a Godmother and a Main Demon. Just like the Royals in the UK, here the goddish Royals. And the Godmother was a virgin and had four sons and at least two daughters. And that is written down textually in the new testaments.

And then there are the Archangels and the angels: the grand-dukes and the dukes. Not to forget the devils, one devil for every kind of sin, I suppose. The hierarchy goes on with the
the Saints and the Sanctimonious: the counts and the viscounts, the sorceresses and the sorcerers. At the glorious end the souls of normal people in paradise, or in the purgatory and those in hell: such as in real life people who have a good life, those who suffer sometimes and those who suffer their whole life.
And Godfather has created all this.
My congratulations. I estimate that this holy hierarchy is comparable to the creations of our best fairy-teller. And very similar too to the hierarchies in the churches, the army, the factories and enterprises of a certain importance.
And now I let up to you to make your opinion about those who believe all this.
Nevertheless I am pleased that I have grown up in a Christian society and in a Christian culture with their moral, social and intellectual levels.

Furthermore there is not a single serious proof that Jesus was sent by that invented God in three perons. Joshua (Jesus) has "sent" himself. By the way the representation of Joshua is not in conformity with the texts one can read about him, and with the opinion people had about him who knew him.
Being religious is a matter of education and constitution of the brain when it is impressed with esoteric and mysticism.
Religion is unscientific answers to questions about the fundamental cause of the origin of the universe, of the forces which rule the universe, of the forces on earth, of the energy of life, of the origin of mankind and so on. Mostly these answers are full of imagery destined to be understood by most men and for all by ordinary, simple-minded, simple hearted people. Many of these answers have been found wrong by the scientists during the last centuries. Nevertheless many religious people, sometimes intelligent people, stick to their believes even if these believes are proved unrealistic, against common sense or totally wrong.
Examples: The "virgin" Maria, the mother of Jesus had four sons and several daughters; a mother of God and a God in three persons is polytheism; the "wonders" of Jesus can mostly all be explained by natural reasons. What miracles? Tell me only one miracle Jesus has done, and I try to explain you what could be probably about these so-called "miracles".
I don't know any miracles, I only know people who believe in miracles.
Hundred years ago healing by placebo were miracles, today we know it is the placebo effect.
Many preachers had, and still have, their tricks to catch the attention of their listeners and to make them believe their theories. Certainly Jesus has been one of the best magician in his country at those times. Nothing more and nothing less.
Saint August, beginning of the 5th century, one of the main thinkers of the catholic church pretended, that God is the divine Essence, the Being of God; the Son is the Word i. e. the Truth; and the Holy Spirit is Love by that the Father begets the Son. Congratulations Saint August very well found! But who believes all this still nowadays?
There are tendencies in the USA to come centuries back and to believe in creationism, i. e. the world being 10.000 years old and being created in 6 short periods (6 days?).
I can’t believe that people, as the actual president, who have got final diplomas at universities of the USA believe such a nonsense. So I guess that he says so, because he is conscious that many of his electors believe that nonsense. That is the scientific level of the children in the Kindergarten in most countries of Europe.
Then the churches and the different sects all around the USA, such as Scientology. Most of their leaders, not to say all, behave like dictators, profiteers, eager for power and money, liars, not hesitating before crimes to reach their aims. But I agree they are effective because their members are ignorant and naïve as people were in the Middle Age.
When I read the questions and the answers by Yahoo Clever of the different countries of Europe, I can find scientific contributions founded upon history of mankind, on history of the religions, on psychology, on sociology, even in Italy, one of the most religious countries in Europe.
But at Yahoo Clever in USA the questions and the answers are much more often very unrealistic, unscientific and far away from the knowledge of our century.
Up to you to make you your own mind up to this.