do you think, we really need to be religious in life?

Being religious is not what God demands of us. Religion is not the way to heaven after all but Jesus. So what God demands of us is not to follow those ceremonials and rituals which are nothing but worthless. Praying the rosary is a big, big foolishness for in the first place the real Mary who is in heaven enjoying the glory of God can't even hear prayers. She is not God so she can't be omnipresent like God. And the real Mary will not even appreciate how the Catholics are venerating her. And God does not need a repetitious, robotic prayers. God wants our prayers to come from our broken and contrite hearts. It is by faith that we could be saved from Hell and not being religious. Traditional religion burdens people with a lot or rituals and practices which are nothing but meant to generate more income for the Catholic church. These rituals do not count to God. God does not give us any credit for doing all those burdensome rituals.

personally i think religion is the cause to most of the problems in this world, without religion this world would be a much better place

Here is a quote from Matthew 7, that you may want to read: "7 Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: 8 For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. 9 Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? 10 Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent? 11 If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him? 12 Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets. 13 Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: 14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. 15 Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. 16 Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? 17 Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. 18 A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. 19 Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. 20 Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them. 21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven." It seems that Jesus taught us to pray to God and keep asking, and He will give us things that are according to His will. A proper thing to ask for is that He will help us understand and find the truth, the true religion. He also taught that everyone who says they believe in Jesus, is not a real Christian. We need God's help to find the true Christians..

I think it is important for a person to be Godly. Give love and kindness to everyone you meet. Help those you can and encourage those you can't. You will be Great. Oh yes, God doesn't belong to any religion either.

Hi Averygirl and welcome to my lot. I have been to many churches and none have taught me the truth about Gods written word. So I gave up on going to a building and listening to a so called christian preacher talking one verse of the bible then off on something that happened to him or someone else he knows. Then one day many many years ago I found a real teacher of Gods word and have learned so much from him. http://www.shepherdschapel.com/index.htm So my husband and I download his teaching on Gods word and we listen to him everyday. He teaches 5 days a week but we listen to Gods word everyday even if it is an old download. We can never hear too much on Gods word.

I think you are fooling yourself there is very hard to be a christian outside organized religion.Not to mention it is not biblical.As soon as you start to think that way you are already far from the teachings in the bible where people were gathering together to pray and to break the bread. If you don`t have someone who tells you when you are wrong how do you know what you are doing wrong ? Our mind will always try to find an excuse and in the end you will find yourself worshiping a god far more worst than the one you believe the catholics are worshiping.

No I don't think we do, I was brought up in a family with no religious beliefs and I think when you look around the world I think religion causes more trouble than anything else, I believe we should all have more faith in our-selves and our inner feelings.

Hi averygirl, I guess I was raised much like you and it's only been in recent years that I've come to see that it's not necessary at all. I don't think that we need religion, in fact we would probably be better off without it. Blessings.

This is what I learned from Bo Sanchez in FEAST. There is what you call Religious Maturity and Spiritually Matured, and that is totally different thing. In Religious Maturity you just act and know how to do the usual rituals like praying, fasting, attending mass every Sunday or even attending the religious organizations but it does not mean that people are really valuing the teachings of God. Where in Spiritual maturity even if they are not doing the rituals of the Church they are still valuing the word of God and they have moral values. To tell you frankly and to be honest with you. I am totally frustrated with people who is fond of attending religious organizations then they don't value the word of God itself. They really tend to judge other people and some of them are just valuing their good image. Again it is just about an IMAGE that they tend to be conscious that much that is the reason why at times I really find them so hypocrite. Whereas I've already witnessed that some religious people are valuing their money that much. I mean they tend to be so much selfish and all they want is the money. Some of them are arrogant that they think they are always right. Unlike the people who are sincerely spiritual just like my nephew, I could really feel how much they value the word of God. They are not into image itself but they are humble enough to help you.

I think that people need faith and not necessary in some traditional God. I was raised in a home of a Jewish family with a mother and grand mother who were Orthodox Christians. But I didn't receive a religious education. In fact the only truly religious person in the family was my Christian granny, she even was singing in a church chorus. But I was never taken to a ceremony in the church or the synagogue. I don't miss this, I'm glad that I'm free to have my own beliefs. Lately we've seen so many scandals in all the churches. People should not let them take control of their lives.

Religion is private thing that every person should decide for itself how or if it going to include it in it's life. Institutional religion is not necessary, since we all have spirituality within us. Any person could be devoted to God, without participating in organizations. So, I think that you are absolutely right.

Its hard to understand religion......everybody believes in so many things.....Every religion has its own beliefs... I believe in GOD myself and try to understand the bible in my own way.......I may have on interpretation of a scripture and some one else will interpret the scripture his or her own way... Religion is tough to understand.. but the bottom line is that we all believe in one GOD regardless of what our beliefs are

any religion must teach kidness to man, religion is very necessary to guide the world we live in,what things are happening on any religion out of religion was only one of shari'a interpretation of some people

hi, u not need to think so much abt it. just keep one thing in mind "GOD IS ONE". u not need to say any religion is bad or good . just u keep believing in god be good person ,try not to heart anyone .all everything gonna be best.trust me. truly tell u i dn;t knw thr is god or not. but if thr is just imagine it as same as u. dn;t do anything that u even can;t forgive u for tat .. just follow this and u will live happy and good life. dn;t worrie abt religion thing, its just made by humans.

reliogious life is not neded

God guide you dear , By way : God aren't a person ,He are God