What is the goal of Religion? (Jesus, Moses, Earth, Buddhism)

[athanasius]

Originally Posted by Booko

As long as you don't gnap my gnarden gnome, you're alright by me!

Gnomes are safe. Not to worry! That is unless its a blue gnome. Our religion has strict rules about blue gnomes. They must be tickled for 12 hours straight, hung upside down and put on a strict Jenny Craig program for at least two months !

[roli]

Originally Posted by Jonathan Rex

What is the objective of individual religions?

Islam - To submit to Allah and do good
Christianity - To follow Yeshua's (Jesus) words, worship God and do good.
Judaism - To follow the law of Moses, worship God and do good.
Buddhism - To follow the teaching of Guatama, become a Buddha and do good.
Hinduism - To follow Krishna, and do good.
Zoroastrianism - To do as Zoroaster taught, and do good.
Taoism - Become one with the Tao, and do good.

There is a pattern here. This pattern has been ignored for thousands of years and has been replaced by dogmatic religious politics. The purpose of all religions was to establish a code of ethics by which the civilization lived unanimously and to take care of one another.

Whether you are Taoist, Confucian, Zoroastrian, Hindu, Buddhist, Jew, Christian, or a Muslim (or one of the many minor religions/cults around the world) the purpose of your belief system is to take care of other human beings and serve humanity by giving something back to the earth, while you are here.

What good is faith if your actions are dead?
What does it mean to believe in God if you do not take care of your brothers and sisters (other human beings)?

Even an Atheist or Feminist can agree on this objective, so what is holding us back?
Why can people not believe in God in their various different ways and worship in the privacy of their own home, in their various different ways and live their faith by taking care of each other instead of discussing their faith?

Anybody who has to convince another person of their beliefs, whether they be Christian or Atheist, is really trying to convince their self. They want other people to accept their views because they are not comfortable practicing their religion alone.

There are flaws in every religion and as long as human beings continue debating the flaws, we as a world will never transcend the nonsense and achieve World Peace.

I would tend to think that we all have maybe a small degree of interest in trying to attain to some better position not just in this life,but some future position in the next.That I believe is the internal mutual interest.
I think that is down inside all of us,obscured by a mirage of practices,mindsets,religious protocols etc.
I mean if you just want to be good for this life and in the eyes of your fellow man that is great but I THINK IT IS FUTILE and even empty to some degree.
I think everyone wants to find the answers to life ,why am I here,what is our purpose,where am I going , where did I come from.
Some may have some inclination as to why we are here ,for instance, to love our fellow man,but I think there is deep desire to connect with a greater intelligence and power that we all inherently know ,but really don't know.
Thus you have the world religions
It is really undefinable to many

Does anyone agree to some degreee of what I am saying.
Can we be honest and really say what we want and hope for is that there is more to life then just living the good life,materially,socially,spiritually in the here and now