Quiddity
UndertheInfluenceofGiants
Exactly!
Ultimately, the more questions you begin to ask, the more you'll see that it's not unconditional and it does come with rules. Even if they don't call them as such.
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Man made religions.
- Thread starter Kcnorwood
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Ultimately, the more questions you begin to ask, the more you'll see that it's not unconditional and it does come with rules. Even if they don't call them as such.
Personally, Im trying to cut back.More interesting isn't that religion is the opium of the masses, but why those outside the masses don't want opium.
I think they do, they just don't call it relgion.
Quiddity
UndertheInfluenceofGiants
I understand. Sometimes opium can get boring. Maybe some other hullucinogen?fantôme profane;1266902 said:Personally, Im trying to cut back.
It's inescapable. By trying to ignore dogma, not define, etc. you inevetibly end up doing it anyways.
The only difference is that you don't share your hullucinogen.
Father Heathen
Veteran Member
So different religions are just competing drug pushers?
Jeremiah
Well-Known Member
I see better from here.
UnityNow101
Well-Known Member
I would love to have the opium of religion if it were not such a life-suppressing drug. It is not a drug of ecstasy, but one of denial of everything that is good.
cheddarsox
Member
wow, what backround do YOU come from? My religion doesn't deny much of anything, and certainly not everything that is good.
I wouldn't say religion is 'man-made' as much as it's the result of evolution. I mean, someone didn't sit down and "invent" it...it's a tendency among humans, a trait, the way our brains work. How much is from the "inside" and how much from the "outside' is a matter of debate.
And even without organized religion, I think people have a tendency to "worship" things. (I don't think we are the only species that does that) No one has to tell a kid they should look up to a hero, or tell us our jaw should drop at an amazing vista...it's built into us. When we recognize something as awesome, there is this thing we feel, this response we have that pretty much amounts to worship. We may learn to control and direct it to a great extent, but we didn't invent it, and it can still take us by surprise.
Greetings. Tis interesting that most post responders address either-or; that is, separate human and God totally. There are a few of us that for all the major religions the source and the aim is the same, and that source and aim is a being who has realized union with God - a God-human. Thus, it would be fair to say from our perspective that the religions come from human and God.
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