Do you ever wonder how different ours lives would be if we didn't have religion? Would it be better or worse?
Or on a different note, why do we have religion in the first place?
2007-11-25 11:12:37 · 7 answers · asked by Hello 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No, I don't wonder about that.
2007-11-25 11:15:10 · answer #1 · answered by Nels 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think our lives would be worse with God and religion.
One example: The Soviet Union had no religion (was atheistic) and was responsible for the death of 61,911,000 victims of genocide and mass murder in just 70 years from 1917 to 1987: http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/NOTE4.HTM
We have religion because God placed the desire for God in the human heart, because each person is created by God and for God; and God never ceases to draw each person to himself.
Most religions are humans responding to that desire by trying to reach out for God.
Judaism and Christianity are God reaching out toward humanity and our response to that call.
For more information, see the Catechism of the Catholic Church, section 27: http://www.usccb.org/catechism/text/pt1sect1.htm#chpt1
With love in Christ.
2007-12-03 06:58:30 · answer #2 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Crusades would probably never have happened. But who's to say. Men have wars over the most insignificant things.
2007-11-25 11:46:53 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think religion is both important and stupid
its important because it gives people morals and a distinction from right and wrong
its also stupid becuase it makes people narrowminded.
2007-11-25 11:17:10 · answer #4 · answered by alaskian carnage 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To be lost without Salvation would be bad.
2007-11-25 11:16:40 · answer #5 · answered by Fish <>< 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If I didn't have Jesus, I would be dead and therefore, no life.
2007-11-25 11:15:52 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
better
2007-11-25 11:16:16 · answer #7 · answered by Dert 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋