Peace be on you.
You could say, Abuse-of-religion.
The religion in its pure form just ask about morality and justice and rights.
As time passes, religion like other aspects, gets corruption by the very hands of corrupts clergies and followers.
so religion is a failure. is it not?
the problem is not just that. It is often the poor and the helpless who has to suffer the dark evils of the society and their religion (since they believe that it is God sent) resist change. and corruption and all dark evils skyrockets in the society. the corrupt authorities suppress free thought (which left free will question their acts and postion) with ever more religious principles and practices which in turn favors corruption and this is a cyclic process.
Morality, justice and rights will exist in a society even with out religion. in fact it has nothing to do with religion. it is our sense of ethics, or morality or sense of doing right that made our societies to progress and it in an ongoing process. religion eventually and actually pulls back society from making any progress overtime. it is stagnating.
.....you mean just as in religion-less soviet era? / !
ofcourse they definitely didnt have religion in their politics. it perished because of other reasons and has nothing to do with (or being without) religion.
Religion comes from the Maker. If He made hundreds of foods and prohibited few for the good of people, it is not harmful. As Ahmadiyya Muslim, one believe that issue of rising Gays is directly related to weakening of family unit and free mingling of male and females as soon as their hormones start as adolescents..... They should be dealt with very kindness and bring back to major genders.
I agree that being a Gay is a psychological issue and true that they won't produce offspring. sometime back I read somewhere that in the past in the medieval Europe, one out of four men married and raised offsprings. The three went unmarried and did not produce offspring. so both are equal in terms of producing offsprings. Now as far as overpopulation is concerned i have more reason to believe that it is a blessing. And i don't agree with "rising Gays is directly related to weakening of family unit and free mingling of male and females as soon as their hormones start as adolescents....."
Idea of God is not human-made since the earliest people [e.g. Aborigines Australia] who could not meet each other, each has faith of deity. Obviously God revealed to them.
The idea of God is human made.
In the past, as humanity progressed into tribal societies and beyond, power always had to be vested with a few for proper administration. And it was easy for them to realize that they could guarantee their strong hold the most if they could take advantage of the fact that
- The fear of the unknown is always much greater than fear of the known.
- There is always the uncertainty of the future.
- People had to suffer extreme hard ships for their survival and this demanded something strong to pacify them.
and nothing fits better than the God factor and hence the formation of a religion. This is something very easy to sell and makes the least oppression which they can easily suppress with some magical trickery and stories. Additionally, it has a very addictive nature and can propel itself for generations. Rituals and other holy practices were incorporated into it which not only strengthened the religious bondage, but also helped the religious heads to keep an eye on those who are stepping away from such practices. followers are easily made to believe that they get some form of divine protection.
so as different tribes formed, so were different stories and different gods. As societies merged or progressed or destroyed through war etc, so was religion.
If it was God that revealed to them, then every religion would be the same and there won't be any fight over this.
Idea of God is embedded in all of us.
NO, it was entrusted on us by the society.
Understanding of many doing good and not doing bad is in all of us.
agreed. The good thing about morale is that it is always one step ahead of us. So , listening to your morale makes you better and even better. In effect, it will keep on polishing oneself.As ones morale polishes oneself individually, collectively it is the society that eventually gets polished; so is social justice- it gets polished; so is social laws - it gets polished. That is the reason why social injustice like slavery, inhumane laws etc that were once much prevalent and legal in our societies are now illegal and abandoned.
Religion shows paths and makes things clear.
NO, it is science that shows paths and makes things clear. Religion makes things murky and illogical.
Prophet is a an able-body like a scientist, who has special aptitude for the job.
Besides, Prophets' earlier lives are clean as glass. They never lie in world why would they start lying for God?
i can't agree with these. Human nature is best studied scientifically. Moreover , various acts of these prophets are unjustifiable for my ethics.
Satan never ask to do good.
So you fear is not right.
What if it is a ploy of satan - do some good and much more harm .
-------Too often religion has been an aphrodisiac for horror, a Benzedrine for bestiality. At its best
it has lifted spirits and raised spires.
At its worst it has turned entire civilizations into cemeteries. —Phillip Adams
If you said all above, how can you reach this possible conclusion because these are Prophets / Messengers who tell about Hereafter?
why do you believe in these ( we have more to talk here).
God will ask other way round.
never. I have no reasons to believe the Bible, Quran or anyother holy books to be true.
Good wishes for you too.
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