My Prof said that people invented the concept of "religion" to help them cope with Life's stressful situations

Question

and deal with their daily anxiety and uncertainty.

I read up on this and it makes sense. What do you think?

Answer 1

ive known this for years

Answer 2

Religion is an attempt at reconciling the problems of the world with the idea that there seems to be some order to this chaos. The unfortunate thing is that there really is a reason for the order in this chaos, but most religions never find the reason. They have all kinds of gods who have lots of different requirements. They do not know the one true God who is the source of the order in this chaos.

Answer 3

"In a time of ancient gods, warlords and kings, a land in turmoil cried out for a hero. She was Xena, a mighty princess forged in the heat of battle." She had a personal relationship with her gods. So should you.
10. The Earth quakes and the heavens rattle;
the beasts of nature flock together and the
nations of men flock apart; volcanoes usher up
heat while elsewhere water becomes ice and
melts; and then on other days it just rains.
11. Indeed do many things come to pass.
HBT; The Book of Predictions, Chap. 19

Answer 4

Your professor is an educated idiot and he does not know. Tell your professor that the nature of man makes him automatically rebel against religion. The laws of God were too hard for man to keep and therefore God sent His Son Jesus Christ. Man has always rebelled against any concept of restrictions. Mothers see this in their babies. All babies are selfish until they are taught to share.

Man has never known how to discipline himself. Left alone to do as he will, man self destructs. Man is born into sin and death. Man is not born into goodness and life. The only way to goodness and life is to be "born again," by the Spirit.

Trust in God - Don't trust in man. Man's words are deceitful, but the Word of God is truth. The Holy Bible has stood the test of time. Prophesies fulfilled have all been true. Get you a King James Bible and start reading. God can take you to places that your professor knows nothing about. And if your professor doesn't change his ways, he may never know the Lord. To be a stumbling block to young people is a serious offense to the Lord. Your professor is not a smart man.

Answer 5

it does kind of make sense to me as well... it seems when people don't have an answer to something they look to religion and use it to accept things that are happening... it's not neccessarily a bad thing if it helps people get through things... but when religion brings on wars and killing over because someone thinks differently than you do, that's when it gets a little out of hand...

Answer 6

Do you really think your professors opinion will have the same effect on the world as religion. How would he know? Was he there when religion was invented or does he know somebody who was?

Answer 7

I used to be Anglican. I am 13 and I needed to make my own decision on if religion was 'right'. I am now agnostic-aethiest. If God loved us so much how can he take innocent lives everyday? How can he banish people to hell just because they don't believe he is real? also Kerry Packer was dead for 6 minutes on an operating table and he saw no signs of heaven or hell...........

I believe there is a higher, weather it be a god or a gravitational field i do not know.....

Answer 8

It is simple logic,man always try's to explain the unknown,some base their ideas on scientific data and others rely on religious dogma,early man worshipped the sun and the moon and animistic spirits and gods,man evolved and at first the church orchestrated the major sciences of the time to prove the existence of god and the accuracy of the bible etc,this backfired and the men of science were labelled heretics for doing what the church asked them to do ...common sense will always prevail and due to these early"heretics" we now know the world is round etc...

Answer 9

Was he a psychologist? If you ask an anthropologist, he'll tell you that organized religion developed from folk religions. We have evidence of folk religion as old as 45,000 years ago (with some evidence suggesting as long as 70,000 years ago).

Answer 10

Of course it makes sense. Religion is the longest running con-game in history.
All con games have one thing in common; the con man. And the con man is short for Confidence man. They gain your confidence or you have confidence in them, then they fleece you.
The subtle difference between a traditional con man and a priest or pastor or reverend or whatever other name they use, is that the old style one leaves after the theft occurs. The religious ones have simply made the con untestable. That is to say, everything hinges on a non-existent after life. So the only way to realize that you've been had is to die. And since there is NO afterlife and no such things as ghosts in the real world, they get off scott-free.
Nice huh?

Answer 11

They also invented it to explain things that they didn't understand or couldn't explain. Like which god that held up the Earth, which god made the sun to up, which god made it thunder.....etc. People just realized it was too hard to keep them all straight, so the concept of one god is actually out of laziness.