jswiftproposal
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- Apr 13, 2010
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If religion is a fallacy or a course of truth, it is very hard to understand just exactly why we are compelled to follow, or to not follow, religion. I would like to ask why you all think that people either are drawn or pushed away from religion (perhaps even put in a stasis of decision between the two).
I believe that we are drawn to religion to help explain things that we either have no way of understanding, or are to afraid to find out the answers to ourselves. Sometimes, such as in the case of "is there an afterlife?", these two go hand in hand. I believe that Religion was/is/can be helpful in unifying people for a common cause, providing comfort, and keeping populations from giving up hope in desperate situations.
Yet I also point out that people are increasingly pushed away from religion. This might be because there are less and less questions that can't be answered, and because people are finding these new answers in places that religious establishments are looked down in. Religious establishments have also held on to traditions that with present knowledge seem stupid, pointless, and sometimes repressive. Yet if religious establishments change their policies to fit the change in population attitude, is is painfully easy to point out that their beliefs are obviously faulty if they can change so easily just to pander to people they want to attract. In this way, i feel that religious establishments are caught in a Catch 22 that inevitably they were going to reach...
Thoughts?
p.s. please avoid slandering any form of belief in responses as it just makes you look like an arrogant narcissistic ass...
I believe that we are drawn to religion to help explain things that we either have no way of understanding, or are to afraid to find out the answers to ourselves. Sometimes, such as in the case of "is there an afterlife?", these two go hand in hand. I believe that Religion was/is/can be helpful in unifying people for a common cause, providing comfort, and keeping populations from giving up hope in desperate situations.
Yet I also point out that people are increasingly pushed away from religion. This might be because there are less and less questions that can't be answered, and because people are finding these new answers in places that religious establishments are looked down in. Religious establishments have also held on to traditions that with present knowledge seem stupid, pointless, and sometimes repressive. Yet if religious establishments change their policies to fit the change in population attitude, is is painfully easy to point out that their beliefs are obviously faulty if they can change so easily just to pander to people they want to attract. In this way, i feel that religious establishments are caught in a Catch 22 that inevitably they were going to reach...
Thoughts?
p.s. please avoid slandering any form of belief in responses as it just makes you look like an arrogant narcissistic ass...