True or false: Fear, and not common sense, is the main reason for all organized religion.?

Question

Fear is the most powerful emotion of all, and emotions rule. Emotions make the ultimate decision, and logic is used to back it up.

Answer 1

True, though I wouldn't limit it to fear. Many emotional hooks are used by religion such as pity for martyrs, guilt for not living up to rigid rules, group bonding, and others. Reason and logic are discouraged, except within its own context. You are allowed to argue trivalities of the faith, but not the faith itself.

This works because humans have been emotional animals for far longer than rational ones. It still holds sway over us, which is why such superstition prevails.

Answer 2

False. Self preservation is the most powerful emotion. All else derives from the idea that I am paramount. Religion seeks to channel this destructive force into a communal good; to help people realize there is something greater and there is a right way to go about reaching that greatness. Maybe some of the rules and strictures are punitive and backward, but a child learns by repetition - an adult sometimes needs the same type of comfort a repeated task brings, as well.
Don't confuse the righteous fear (awe) of G-d with terror (fear in man of harm or death).

Answer 3

false

A.) Love is more powerful than fear... why would people risk lives for loved ones if not?

B.) Emotions do not always rule. Look at science.

C.) Emotions do not always make ultimage decisions. You point out yourself by mentioning logic.

D.) Many religions do not use fear to begin with.

E.) Every statement you made is false. You try to speak in absolutes on issues that are far from it. Since every statement is false, the entire premise must be false.

Answer 4

I've been around seems like eons, gone thru the religous phase and awakened with a disdain for religions on the whole. I firmly believe that religion is the opiate of the masses and a way to control and rob the people. Just look at all the goofy religions, The goofy beliefs of hindus, buddists, muslims, yeah, and others but they are no more goofy than christanity, ask a muslim, ha. If you wanna get taken, then take up a religion. nuff sed!

Answer 5

Fear is the most common motivator in all of life not just religion. We fear getting a ticket so we don't speed (to much).

Young people and many older people fear being ostracized for being different, so they conform.

People fear what they don't understand so they become predjudice.

And People fear that all there is to life is life, so they look to a higher power.

But a good portion of those people looking to a higher power back up that fear with study and meditation, that lead them to beoive that their is more than just what we see to life.

Fear has been used by many dictators and pety leaders throughout history, but history has shown tha while fear is a great motivator, it does not produce respect. It produces contempt.

So if fear where the only motivating factor in religion, you would expect people to follow the tenents of their religion, whith little fervor and a methodical plociing throu the ceremonies.

But that is not what you see in most churches these days. At least in most Christian churches. you don't see a fear and a grucging acceptance of what is to be. What you see is a celebration, a celebration of life and the glory of a God that loves everyone. And wants everyone to succeed, but won't hold it agianst you if you fail.

You don't see fear, you see joy. So mabee fear is what lead people to Religion, but what keeps them their is the Joy.

Answer 6

False. Man is a social animal and develops rich cultural contexts that include mythologies, rituals, social institutions and structures, and normative rules to bind the community together. That is the reason for organized religion.

Don't misunderstand me, though, I do not mean to suggest it is merely a functional construction. I believe organized religion is that but can also be the mechanism by which we experience and live out a very real truth that it is very difficult to experience on our own by reinventing the spiritual wheel, so to speak. I am a Christian, after all.

Answer 7

I believe so. The idea of gods was imagined into fruition to explain the unexplainable. Religions branched off from worshiping those gods and sects developed.
People giving into these ideals in the droves they came in allowed their emotions to run rampant. Such unyielding emotions gave way to so much loss of the ability to understand things. Suddenly those in power realize what a problem it is for their followers to have knowledge. They fear they will lose faith to logic.
So yes it does seem fear is the underlying cause for organizing a religion, but not understanding is a more likely cause for it developing.

Answer 8

The answer is 'Neither'. Furthermore the war is the biggest 'social program' ever! The government is pumping billions of dollars into the economy in support of the war, killing people on all sides keeping the undertakers in business as well! Fear? What did we have to fear from Iraq? That Saddam wouldn't do anything stupid to justify this 'social program'!lol:(

Answer 9

Fear is the main one. People also follow religion because of the promise of reward. Hope is also a powerful motivator.

On some level, emotions influence almost every decision people make.

The root cause is that people can't cope with the fact that they are not masters of their own destiny. Therefore, they place themselves in the hands of invisible powers, and then they create elaborate fantasies, complete with omnipotent characters, whom they can appeal to through prayer and sacrifice, thus fooling themselves into thinking they know and control what is essentially uncontrollable - the future.

Answer 10

False. If you do not believe in some form of god or gods, how can you be afraid of him/her/them? If you do not believe, you can not be afraid of how they might punish you or what might happen if you don't obey the laws they set.

While emotion will be part of the decision to practice a particular religion, the emotion involved will never be fear. You can not fear what you do not beleive exists.

Answer 11

False. God did not give us the spirit of Fear but of power and of love and of a sound mind.2 Tim 1:7There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love.1 John 4:18