Do you trust your RELIGION?

Question

What if they are using your credulity to take advantage of you?
Religion was established to manipulate the minds of the populace and make them meek and easily controllable.
Think about it if you like yourself.

Answer 1

i don't trust nor beleive fairytales.......

Answer 2

It seems either you don't have any knowledge of religion or you have been grossly misguided by some one and when you realized, it was too late.

Religions round the globe, have 2 things - cosmology ( creation of the universe) and code of conduct (under various situations). If you analytically study any or all religions, you will find these. It is really surprising that codes specified centuries back still seem quite appropriate and pertinent.

Now coming to your problem, the rituals (probably u call them religion) specified are either temptation (u do this & u will gain this) or threats (if u don't do this, u will have this or that problem). The rituals change depending on geographical and demographical aspects. These rituals are hell since they weaken ur mind, make it suspicious and so on. Just be cautious and avoid rituals. Think of God as Almighty and forget the rest. Just love him and do not get scared of him. I am sure you will have purity of mind very soon and start loving God. I would feel great if you let me know ur experience. My e mail iD is there on the profile.

Answer 3

I trust the Lord. The people at church I guess is what you call the religion of Christianity. Christians are not perfect people.
You are right about the Catholic Popes attempting to control people by not letting them have the Bible to read. Praying people out of purgatory for money and purgatory is not even in the Bible. When you have a dictatorship, you usually end up with one person controlling many. The bad Popes were no different. I'm not Catholic, but I've read history. The Pope was so corrupt that he put people to death for printing the Bible. The protest of catholic people who became Protestants can easily be understood. Jesus when He came to the earth called the Pharisees (church folks) hypocrits for their manmade traditions which were far from the Word of God.

I take the Word of God, the Holy Bible, KJV, and I base my life around the Word of God and Jesus Christ. I listen to no man, pastor, priest or whatever. I obey God.

Answer 4

At this point of time you are a reformer, trying to see the things from different angles.
But I think you are needlessly generalizing the things. Not all religions were established the way you are describing. We will have to go back in time to think about it in broader perspective. Now we have become advanced and are equipped with so many scientific gadgets to power our mind to take us to any limit unlike what we had thousands of years back. Persons responsible for the setting up of a religion were in fact reformers at that point of time, a sort of rebellions against the religion, like you are today. Time took its own toll, gradually corrupting the religion, growing in size with blind followers and leaving ideology behind, resulting in the stagnation. And here we are now.
So in my opinion, religion was not necessarily established to manipulate the mind of the people rather we have become the victims of the so-called God men presiding over the religion.

Answer 5

You are right about religion. Religion has caused more heartache and pain than anything. It is a form of bondage. Jesus spoke up against the hypocrisy of the religious leaders of his day. In Jesus's day, the religious leaders put on a pretense of religion for a show to gain the aproval of man. Jesus called them vessels that were shiny and clean on the outside but filthy on the inside. Religious works cannot get you to heaven. Only a relationship with Jesus will. There is no other way. A person can go through the motions of religion, but without Jesus, he is nothing. There is a God-shaped hole in the heart of every person that can only be filled by Jesus (Jesus is God and He proved it by rising from the grave.) Nothing else can fill that void in your life. Sex cannot, nor can drugs, nor alcohol, nor can money or power. Listen, Jesus is the only way.

Answer 6

that's what Carl Marx said when his father changed his religion for the sake of making a profit. I believe bad, perverted, twisted religion does what you have said, but that does mean that Jesus Christ does. Jesus never said to "get religion" He said to come to Him for eternal life. (pretty radical statement I would say). Salvation is not a religion but it is a way of life with the living Lord. He doesn't ask us to make pilgrimmages anywhere, berade those who don't accept the Christian message of grace, no, He says repent and believe. "believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved." (Acts 16:31). Did you ever stop to think how philosophers, anthropologists, cultural sociologists determine what is plausible and what is not, what is fact and what is faith? They take theories and make them fact and print them that way in textbooks so that kids are socially conditioned to think a certain way without ever hearing the other side. But when someone teaches the Bible as truth, it is condemned as mind control. The Bible is so absurd that it teaches life comes from life, not non-life. Which is more plausible to believe?

Answer 7

I trust my religion in a lot of things and don't trust it in a few things. I think its failure to adequately deal with pedophile priests is a disgrace, and the way it has of simply shuffling them around from parish to parish or sweeping them under the rug is appalling.

However, I do trust my religion to be beautiful despite its shadows, to have traditions I admire, and much philosophical literature that is well worth studying. And most of the clergy are very decent people who don't deserve being smeared with mud alongside their more criminal colleagues.

Answer 8

religion cant be trusted.why do you think theres such a debate with the issue?
religion follows a bunch of man-made rules and restrictions.christianity is not religion.its relationship with jesus christ based on faith,love,and trust.jesus is a person.religion is a thing.christians believe in jesus.they put their trust in him.religion is for people who dont understand about relationship.they think religion is the way to heaven.they cant understand that jesus isnt a religion.he's a real person that they can have a real relationship with.like a father and his children.hes our father,and we're his children.religion has nothing to do with that.

Answer 9

Here's a crazy thought, "live & let live" !!!

Questioning religion is fun, until you realize that we could be as real as the book itself.
Ever seen "The Never-Ending Story"? We all could be imaginary including the universe.
Believe in the Bible, believe in yourself, it doesn't matter as long as you believe in life. Once you stop believing, you're dead no matter which way you look at it.

Answer 10

I would never trust one of those man-made religions. I trust only in my God. The One who inspired the bible.

Answer 11

Whoa now dude!
Religion is not black or white. There are waaaaaaaay to many beliefs and religions that I'd be embarrassed if I made a blanket statement about them, like you just did.

--Buddhist.