I
like religion because religious texts uses a style of writing that is very personalized to the reader/believer. The ethics
do change and people quote different verses from the same texts to give their example.
God always agrees with you and God's always right! Right? You can be influenced by your parents, but ultimately you choose your religion. At least, with the advent of the Internet you choose with you are exposed to. Thus most religions, new or old, cannot be classified as a
cult. Religion has involved from a way of living, to a way of (hoping and) believing [faith]. I am ultimately grateful for that.
I
dislike religion because there's still a few like Scientology that do nothing but want your money. They tell you how to live. I believe happiness is its own reward, and if you are not happy in these particular religions you will be excommunicated from everybody you know, which you know just isn't right.
~A lot of religions will tell you to act or think in certain ways - do this or don't do that - as a means to live - but I do understand where most of them are coming from. Pray (towards Mecca). Fast. Don't backbite. There's good reasons for this. It comes down if they are robbing you of your livelihood. Many religions have feasts, devotionals, churches, prayer circles, etc that bring a sense of community
and livelihood to each person.~
I cannot even talk about why I dislike religions to going back to why I do! Well, I've never encountered a religion whose sole focus was to tell people about the obscure theology of Pan-Apotheosis, my own. The fact that
maybe a dozen people
in the world believe in it is very sad to me sometimes.
Pan-Apotheosis is kind of my livelihood, and I have no one to share it with. Religion lacks diversity.