Does anyone think religion is a hustle?

Question

First, I believe in God and science. If someone wanted you to join a club and the first thing they taught you was that they were right and everyone else was wrong and going to hell, or should be killed, you would run the other way. Yet the major world religions say just this! They also rabidly attack science every time science disproves something in their holy books, like the earth is 6,000years old, anyone with a brain knows its older. Worse, they rabidly attack eachother for being exactly the same! Muslim "I am right and you are an infidel.": Christian, "No, I am right and if you don't believe me you will not be saved from hell" Both: "The other is immoral and wrong!" It has been proven that men have altered the bible many times in history, also. Rather than have faith and realize that maybe God is allowing some of his works to be revealed to us through science, as in evolution, the amazing process of bringing varied life from nothing, they want to discredit it.

Columbus was called a heretic because he said the world wasn't flat!
And I welcome religious people to rationally explain why they are so superior with any other argument than "God made it so, you are lost."
SHOULDN'T WE ALL JUST BE HUMANS AND ACCEPT THE FACT THAT WE CAN CALL GOD WHATEVER NAME WE CHOSE, SO LONG AS WE CALL HIM? DO YOU THINK GOD HAS AN EGO AND WILL HAVE HIS FEELINGS HURT?

Cheez... my husband is Muslim and that's how we get along!!!!

Brother Jonathan, what's the difference between my "rant" and your "rant"? You're expressing your "truth" firmly, and I'm expressing mine!

Answer 1

Robert S. DeRopps wrote that organized religion is the world's oldest con game, and he is correct.

Answer 2

Several points to consider here. First, it's good that you believe in God and science. There is no reason why one should have to choose between the two--after all, God is the Creator and science is one of His greatest works.

But the rest of your posting actually sounds like a rant, rather than a quest for truth. It's a fact that there are many religions in the world. No one would deny that. The difference is that Christianity is the ONLY faith where the founder, Jesus Christ, died and came back from the dead. NO other faith can claim this. So if Jesus says, "I am the way, the truth and the life, and no one comes to the Father except by Me" (St. John 14:6), perhaps we would be wise to examine, and then believe, what He has to say.

Answer 3

First, I do believe that God allows us to discover things using science, but that doesn't make science always right. We are human and make mistakes, He is God and is perfect. Second, evolution never happened. Man and animals were both made on day six. The Bible says there was no death on Earth before Adams sin. There are fossils with animals having other animals in their digestive system, therefore these animals, and man shared the same time period. Third, if you take the rate of population growth in mankind, and divide it backwards, you run out of people in about 4000 years( Noah's flood ). Fourth, which is more credible? 300 years ago, man thought the Earth was flat. 4000 years ago, Isaiah wrote about God sitting above the circle of the Earth. Stating that the Earth was round.

ps. Why is there more species of fish, than all mammals, birds and insects, combined?

The fish didn't have to fit on Noah's Ark.

Answer 4

Religion does seem to be a good hustle. Its tough to cut through the trash and find the real thing.
Actually, we do not know the earth is older than 6000 years. Most, Christian and non Christian alike, just believe its older because of the idea of evolution. But we have no facts to support any age. We do have some written records that are about 5500 years old that seem to be undisputed. Everything older than that is disputed.

Answer 5

Much of it is. Most religions though they use John 3:16, don't really accept Jesus as God's son, most religions preach Jesus miracles but don't believe them, most religions preach hellfire and don't believe it (claim they must teach it to get their people to go to church and donate money to keep the religion going).

Christian groups were behind Nazism/holocaust, acts against Hindu East India, attempted genocide of American Indians, slavery of blacks, until recently taught that non-whites had no "immortal souls" and were like animals, barely tolerated women either (they were just slightly above non-whites) and they believe going to war and killing others is what God wants them to do.

No thinking individual can fail to see there is something severely wrong with all this when it is completely contradictory to the Bible.

But there are Christians not like that.

Debbie

Answer 6

In the history of mankind, there are now 5000 identified gods. (Give or take one or two) The odds of ONE being the right one are:

1 / 5000 = .0002

That is 2 HUNDREDTHS of ONE percent. When all you have is that, you are willing to do anything to protect that small amount. Including bashing other religions, start wars, etc.

Answer 7

I don't think religion is a hustle. The dumb competition between people who don't have a life and want to be superior is a hustle to deal with. I agree with u completely. Call God watever u want to, as long as you call him and are not ignorant.

Answer 8

You are a pretty smart person and got a lot of it right but you need to give up the God thing. I think you will as you grow more.

Answer 9

People want to be right. They can't be right if the "other guy" is right. So they have wars over it.