God Vs Religion?

Question

I was reading/watching an interview with a celebrity recently and she said this:

"For me, the idea of God, or the idea of spirit, has nothing to do with religion. God connects humanity while religion separates it and I don't think that was ever the Creator's intention."

Do you agree or disagree? What are your thoughts?

Answer 1

I think that history teaches a most profound lesson about religion: it does separate. The war in the Gulf right now is more about religion (look at the Kurds, Shiites, etc.) than anything else. The fact that God's name (however you choose to say it) is the catalyst for most wars is clearly not a Godly intent, but rather one misguided by the people here who have only the human insight and understanding. I think that we judge one another without all the facts. I believe that St. Theresa was one who came in our time, with the clearest window to the divine. She simply served others and had no need for politics about religion. I know that I have said this before, so please forgive me, Cricket Song, but the Bible is a 'work in progress'. Please, Yahoo people, don't misunderstand me, it isn't that I don't believe in God, it is that I worry about a book that has had votes on which books to keep in and which to remove. A book which, over the centuries, has undergone changes ordered from everyone from Priests to kings. I have spent a lifetime studying what amounts to 'religious history' and I believe that God never intended to separate us by placing us on this earth. Instead, when Adam and Eve were in the garden of Eden, it was meant to be a sort of heaven on earth. Those are simply my thoughts on God, whom I don't pretend to be able to understand and I will not argue that I know all and whichever version of religion I choose is the ONE TRUE RELIGION. Instead, I will leave you with this: A man died and went to heaven. In heaven was the Father's house (as promised). In it were many rooms, with many people celebrating and feasting. St. Peter let him enjoy each as they passed, until the one room, where the people were solemn and sad. Upon questioning, St. Peter answered, "Oh, those are the (insert religion here), they think they are the only ones up here!" Don't mourn God, celebrate him/her in the way that you understand the divine. Fighting will get us no where in this world, but it is the time of year we celebrate the Spirit, isn't it?

Answer 2

I fully agree! I don't like the word "religion" for it is man's construct for an organized system of belief. Religion has done more to destroy human kind and humanity that anything else. Obviously, this is not God's intent.
God also calls us into community in faith. We are called to support one another, love one another and live with one another. You cannot have a religion of one!
This is why there are so many "religions." Someone would find fault with the rules and regulations that someone wrote up to found that particular religion and move on to find another religion that suits his/her taste.
This is just another indication that we are spiritual beings searching for meaning in our lives and the center of all this is truly - GOD!
I believe this is why Evangelical is the largest growing segment of Christianity. It has the least rules and pursuers truth and answers directly from Scripture. People (like me) are sick of "religion" and all it's convoluted trappings.

Answer 3

Individual and social transformation have a reciprocal relationship. Society affects us; we affect society. Both must be addressed to have sustained and lasting effect. Religion consists of both spiritual and social teachings that apply to individual and collective life. We can pretend that they are separate, but they cannot be.

The appalling disappointment that people feel about the institutionalized part of religion today is a result of social teachings that belong to an age past being forced upon a world vastly different from the world that existed say 1400 or 2000 yrs ago.

We need new social teachings based on the reality of today's world that is becoming conscious of itself as a planet, not mere tribes or nations. We need spiritual teachings that are further explained than in the past and more suited to underpin a world civilization.

Answer 4

Well, God has his requirements, and they are set for us to live our life to the fullest. Religion like in the days of the Israelites, were ment to forshadow something better and more to what God had in mind for us.

In most part yes religion does separate us from God because most religions are developed by man and by Satan. So that really agrees with the bible in that mankind can't direct his own step, and we are being mislead by many of the current religions.

Answer 5

Let’s agree on one thing
If you create a machine; wouldn’t you make an operation manual for this machine?
And what does that Opt include?
For sure it will include the rules and the better way to use this machine.
Then you will believe that this is the right way to use this machine
This is the meaning of religion that you must believe that you are following the correct way of leaving.
Therefore we don’t have to judge the religion; we must judge those who miss use the religion.

Answer 6

Another celebrity idiot.
Neither God or religion separate or connect humanity.
People separate or connect humanity.

Answer 7

My dad says that he believes in God, but not organized religion. He says that organized religions were created by man who is trying to set up rules to follow God (trying to organize things.). My dad does not like religion!

My Catholic priest says that the Bible was written by man who is generally fallible, however, the writing of the Bible was done while these people were under the direction of the Holy Spirit!! (that is infallible truth)!

Answer 8

Exactly right. Religion creates separation, but true spiritual life creates a divine connection... Absolutely right.

Jesus was preaching a Spiritual Gospel, not a Blood for sin gospel. The Original Kingdom Gospel he preached was a Spiritual Gospel.... and He did not open or build a single church.

The resource below will explain the difference between that Original Spiritual gospel, and the impostor "religious" gospel that we hear these days.

The difference between the two is ENORMOUS.

Answer 9

It is not that when one is a celebrity, anything he or she says must be wise and make your eyes sparkle...

What is religion? Religion is the path that leads to God.

Even though you claim you do not have a religion, yet you believe in God and try to be good to yourself and do good to others, then this is your religion : to do good.

Answer 10

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