2007-10-18 06:55:06 · 40 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No, but creationism is.
2007-10-18 06:57:14 · answer #1 · answered by Acorn 7 · 6⤊ 3⤋
If religion is just a cheap way to explain the universe then I guess you also have a problem with creationism if so way are there still apes?
2007-10-18 07:02:03 · answer #2 · answered by Greg 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cheap? It's a very efficient way for people to make sense of an overwhelmingly humongous universe and where we fit into it. Every culture does it, just as every culture has it's cynics. Overall, major religions are a good thing, providing guidelines for living within a community, role models, and sometimes cryptic but nevertheless reassuring answers to the question: what does it all mean. (and it's the asking of that question that marks us as humans). Of course, there are always a few who embrace it a bit too stridently, or pick and choose pieces of a whole to justify their own, radical agendas
2007-10-18 07:03:36 · answer #3 · answered by oakleafmold 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's an easy and childish way. I'm not sure about cheap, given the cost in lives through the centuries when people kill each other over religion.
Tyr, religion does NOT go hand and hand with science. For example, if you believe the bible, the sun and planets revolve around the earth. The difference between science and religion is that religion already has what it thinks is the answer, whereas science admits that it does not have all the answers, and it seeks them without a pre-conceived idea of what they should be.
2007-10-18 06:57:30 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
You mean Religion is a "spiritual" way of explaining the universe.
2007-10-18 06:59:46 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is the only way to keep hope in future. I have suffered so much from others, and have been subjected to so many injustices in past that had I not believed in a just God who will support me and will reward me for my sufferings in my life here or hereafter, and punish the guilty, I would have taken a gun and go on a shooting spree. Faith in God guides me and tells me not to lose hope and adjust with my situation. It also teaches me to look in to my own faults and try to forgive others to be forgiven by the God upon the day of judgement.
My faith has kept me going all these difficult years. Religion in the best way to make us nice human beings, provided we understand it's true message.
2007-10-18 07:13:04 · answer #6 · answered by Face the truth 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I wouldn't say cheap. Do you have any idea how much money the church rakes in tax free? It's insane how much those talking heads make for spewing pure fantasy. L. Ron Hubbard was smart to make up his own religion and make millions from it. Pure genius.
2007-10-18 06:58:18 · answer #7 · answered by Ralphie 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
you should put 'is' at the beginning of your sentence to make it a question.
Religion isn't cheap it represents generations of sacrifice and study. It also has helped shape all cultures of humanity and exemplified both the beautiful and ugly parts of our soul and the human condition.
2007-10-18 06:58:28 · answer #8 · answered by Rational Humanist 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not necessarily cheap, but definitely it is much easier to say "god did it", then it is to actually do the research necessary to find out how it really became into existence.
2007-10-18 07:07:43 · answer #9 · answered by Sapere Aude 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think it is cheap in the amount of mental energy and time you must use in order to arrive at an answer.
2007-10-18 07:01:09 · answer #10 · answered by Subconsciousless 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I wouldn't call it cheap, but at the time when it started, it was a good way for the level of understanding that people could have
2007-10-18 06:57:32 · answer #11 · answered by larissa 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋