All About RELIGION Here

[brownprose]

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Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things and evil people doing bad things, but for good people to do bad things, it takes religion.

[dknorth57]

I think that is a sweeping statement about religion that is only true about some. Not all religion makes people do bad things. A lot of religion helps people to keep their bad impulses in check.
However, my feeling is that religion isn't what makes a person better or worse. It can make people worse as you say.
It is the person of Jesus Christ who comes and changes our hearts for good. He has the power to do that. Religion doesn't. But we can know Him better through churches that really teach His Word which is how we know anything about Him.

[flying fish]

Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things and evil people doing bad things, but for good people to do bad things, it takes religion.

Ha,ha,ha, you remind me bro of richard dawkins, i agree w/ you if we are referring to how religion is being exercised nowadays.
Im not a big fan of a "Fear based" religion.

On the other hand religion has its beautiful & productive side when it is truly & sincerely implemented to its so called followers.

For me the culprit of the problem is not religion per se but the authorities or the proprietors who manage to call themselves the emissary of god.

[brownprose]

I think that is a sweeping statement about religion that is only true about some. Not all religion makes people do bad things. A lot of religion helps people to keep their bad impulses in check.
However, my feeling is that religion isn't what makes a person better or worse. It can make people worse as you say.
It is the person of Jesus Christ who comes and changes our hearts for good. He has the power to do that. Religion doesn't. But we can know Him better through churches that really teach His Word which is how we know anything about Him.

Much of what you said is correct. I am mean or averse to religion because it is the most divisive of inventions of man.

[munzter666]

Much of what you said is correct. I am mean or averse to religion because it is the most divisive of inventions of man.

true, then again some people need them "crutches" the most. talk about prosthetics.haha

...in order for them to function "normally", or how they see themselves.

[brownprose]

For me the culprit of the problem is not religion per se but the authorities or the proprietors who manage to call themselves the emissary of god.

As faith is to conscience as to motives is to institutions. When the existence of an institution is threatened, religion does not appeal to conscience or to God but to the laws of survival.

[Existanz]

"Genuine Christianity", according to Kierkegaard, is anything but doctrine. It is a way of being in the
truth before God by following Jesus in self-denial, sacrifice, suffering, and by seeking a primitive relationship with God.

Unfortunately, doctrine is what people want. And the reason for this is “because doctrine is the indolence of aping and mimicking for the learner, and doctrine is the way to power for the
teacher, and doctrine collects people."

[Tirong-say]

If Religion did not exist do we have the chance to know that there is GOD,
and if so, how?

[brownprose]

If Religion did not exist do we have the chance to know that there is GOD,
and if so, how?

Spirituality precedes or predates religion. So wala pa mauso ang religion traces (evidence) of worship and regard for sacred objects were already observed some 30,000 years ago.

Our penchant or nature to understand causalities (existence and phenomena) drives us to look for answers beyond what we cannot comprehend.

[josephdc]

If Religion did not exist do we have the chance to know that there is GOD,
and if so, how?

Yes. I think we can come to a knowledge of a Creator by studying the Cosmos. God reveals himself through his creation.