quite a few people on this forum has said that religion is a way to bring people together so i ask ..... why is it that almost every major war ever fought through out time has been over religion?
2007-11-06 05:10:57 · 20 answers · asked by bgdadyp 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
mastermind...
think before you answer
you are wrong....they have been fought over religion and you would see that if you were just to open a book or two.
it's called reading..try it some time.
2007-11-06 05:23:25 · update #1
good point! bravo!
i love my pagan friends but alot of us started out as wiccan, and then saw it was just as full of fundies as christians... i think when someone find their personal path they will realize how useless churches and religion are. it's about you and your power and your intent. that's it. yes we influence each other, our lives are intertwined. but that is not a reason to ban together and form religion! lol it's just a reason to be strong ..as humans. we need to focus on humanity and not all the other crap.
i'm a sole practitioning witch. why witch? because i cast spells. but i dont need a group of witches to help me be me. they're just fun to have around !
2007-11-06 05:20:21 · answer #1 · answered by ? 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, spirituality does not exist any more, and religion killed it. No one has personal spirituality, people these days believe how they believe due to child indoctrination almost solely. Parents aren't exposing their children to other belief systems and letting them make their own choice, as a result they grow up as bigoted close-minded people thinking their religion is the only true religion.
More disturbing however, is that parents are even downplaying the importance of teaching their children the moral guidelines that almost all religions have shared, starting with the oldest religion we have large amounts of doctrine from, Hinduism. This only further destroys any spirituality that could be found in religion.
2007-11-06 13:21:34 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Religion is not a way to bring people together. It is a way that everyone tries to understand the world and its creation. Along with this does come war over the different beliefs that people have. When people said religion brings people together I believe they were refering to the fact that Christianity brings Christians together, Judaism brings Jews together, etc. because they have the same beliefs.
2007-11-06 13:18:03 · answer #3 · answered by Anthropomorphic 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think people would like to think religion is a way to bring people together. The problem is that every one religion thinks it has the one right answer and is intolerant of the others. I think it helps poor people endure their miserable lives because they are told that one day, they will inherit the earth. They will be rewarded for all their pain and suffering. I actually think religion pulls us apart because it keeps us from realizing that we all have to able to get along - the earth is getting smaller and smaller. We are all physically coming together. We better learn how to emotionally and politically come together.
2007-11-06 13:20:23 · answer #4 · answered by kathy s 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Bringing people together is not necessarily a peaceful act. Religion brings these guys together over here, and those guys together over there, and each group starts thinking the other is up to no good, and all those people together like that is a threat.
2007-11-06 13:17:03 · answer #5 · answered by injanier 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hm....Some religion brings people together. Others tear people apart. It all depends on how people react. Sometimes it's both.
Take Judaism for example. They have a strong sense of community that keeps them together. They can take whatever land their given and turn it into an oasis. But this brings jealousy from other people. Jealousy turns into spite, and spite turns into hatred. And hatred tears people apart.
2007-11-06 13:15:50 · answer #6 · answered by Professor Cuddles III 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
religion doesn't bring people together, unless you are in that same religion! there has been an on going fight over religion since the beginning of time! people will never see eye to eye! but that's o.k.! we've survived this long going the way we are!!!(especially here on r&s)
2007-11-06 16:21:38 · answer #7 · answered by meister 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Communal religion brings people together, when they all agree with another. Religion itself does not, as History proves. I need say no more. History did it for me.
2007-11-06 13:16:39 · answer #8 · answered by xenypoo 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Mankind is still a work in progress. It is not religion that causes wars. Rather it is the absence or lack of religion, that personal and harmonious relationship with God.
2007-11-06 13:16:43 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Religions have a way of getting extremely large groups of people together...They're called armies. Unfortunately, they get in even bigger groups, called battles.
2007-11-06 13:17:37 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋