What is the role of religion?

Indonesia
February 22, 2011 10:43am CST
What is the actual role of religion who have been there, why, despite so many religions that exist in the world but even these religions into the views that make humans kill each other and acts to defend? Does religion really needs to be defended with the blood and the death of another religion, with each beat to be the most superior? In fact we strongly condemn the Hitler who has been cruel to kill many people.
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dayangsumbi2010
@dayangsumbi2010 (1724)
• Indonesia
27 Feb 11
One function of religion is that humans are not chaotic behavior. Religion can also be used as a means to seek the Lord. fill the human mind. But if the Lord is wrong then it could actually deviated from the Lord even taught the good in religion. There are three ways of mankind to be a good person. 1. education 2. religion. 3. punishment.
luram626
@luram626 (30)
• Philippines
27 Feb 11
The Function of the church is to teach the people that there is a god, there is a supreme creator of this vast universe, and that the very earth we live in is his, the air we breathed and the life we have is not ours. so this means that we have to pay respect to everything we have and give thanks to the one who gave us all of this. The other function of the church is to help us how to become a better person, a good citizen of the community, to be part of the solution not a problem, it should teach us how to help others especially those who are need. I hope this will help us what religion/church really means. thanks
najibdina29
@najibdina29 (1309)
• Indonesia
14 Mar 11
Religion is in sum a guidance / guideline for adherents in doing good & true!
nakula2009
@nakula2009 (2325)
• Indonesia
25 Feb 11
It was much darker history of wars in the name of religion, almost all religions there are dark history, the Christian with the crusade, Muslims ... with war full moon, Hindus with war Brata Yuda, Buddhists .... War Emperor Ashoka, all of which is war in the name of religion, but now that time has passed, and even been to war, religion is still occurring in the world, and embraced many followers .. In war, one of which is their leaders who have different thoughts, remember all originated from the mind, then develop a positive mind, we must be peaceful always. Killing is a sin, of whatever are not justified, now do not worry, there is a human law that regulates it.
luram626
@luram626 (30)
• Philippines
27 Feb 11
your concern here is about religion, well i would like to tell about my understanding on this matter. First I believe that God do exist, we are all his sons and daughters, he love each and every one of us and he has a plan for us, we are sent here on earth to obtain physical bodies, and for us to learn and experience, our main purpose here also is to have joy, to be happy. when Jesus Christ came to earth he established the Church and teaches us how to live a happy life, he teaches us correct principles to guide us in this life, however there are people who will not follow him, who did not believe in him, and so they try to destroy his works, they even kill him and his apostles. over time his teachings can no longer be found. and centuries passed by there were this intelligent people who compiled the writings of his apostles, then from there on they were enlightened to establish a religion based on what they understand on the writings. and so many intelligent people followed the same thing. Nowadays, this is the problem because we have so many religions, we don't know who is teaching us the truth about God. but if you happen to know of a religion that teaches you its ok to kill someone then definitely you should not be on that religion. The religion you should be is the one that teaches you to be a good citizen in your community. it should be inviting you to follow Christ.