Religion... evil or enlightening??
By trippyteresa
@trippyteresa (87)
March 1, 2007 3:31am CST
Ok where to start... i have always had personal issues with religion/belief, but since i joined mylot i've realised just how many people live by it... for example when i've posted problems with my life, people say they are going to pray for me, in a weird way that kind of feels nice and is a lovely thing to do for another, especially if you've never met them, for some i feel religion is a wonderful thing, for mr and mrs 'smith' down the road who go to church every sunday, live peacefully and happily and follow good morals i see no wrong in it, they hurt no one else, but lets look at people like al queda... who believe that if they kill non believers and also themselves they will 'sit' next to their god, i feel these people have been brainwashed... life is a gift and these people take it away, where is the sense of godliness in that... my next point in this is people who ask me to pray when i have problems, i'm sorry but i could pray my little butt off all day and my problems are not going to go away untill i physically DO something about them... same goes for everyone else... another bad thing in religion i feel is enforcing it in our childrens schools... my son came home from school one day, and made this statement... 'mum don't worry about me when i'm playing out on my own, i can go anywhere, god is always at my side' school had taught him this, i had to rectify this by saying, 'im sorry if this upsets you darling, but if you are on your own, you ARE alone, god is not going to save you from anyone or anything that may hurt you when you are on your own, you must always stay close to home, so I AM the ONE there for you, an invisible person in the sky won't!!!!' Children are too young and too immature to read between the lines in religion, and i don't think it should ever be something that a school and people who don't know our children as well as we do should be pushing down their necks, if YOU want to introduce religion to your children then all power to you, just make sure you show them the grey areas and not just the black and white!! My final point is religion is Ireland, the catholics versus the protestants... i'm sorry if this offends anyone but this was a war fought 500 years ago and it's OVER!!!! pinning a flag to your house to say which you are doesn't make you a better person, attacking children on their walk to school because they pass through the wrong religious area is unforgiveable, i feel in ireland this kind of mentality will never end!!! it's being passed onto the children and they will grow the same, where will it end, when will people learn to live peacefully, and concentrate on their own lives, and not what church their neighbour attends, and taunt them if it's different to their own, they are all irish!!! I've never been a chruch goer, except when i was made to at school and to be honest i don't think i ever will, i will live peacefully and happily and go about my merry way confronting my problems with actions rather than prayers... what do you think?
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@xParanoiax (6987)
• United States
1 Mar 07
Well I certainly can understand your point of view.
I'm no fan of those who hurt others and the world in the name of their own religion.
Religion..or rather, spirituality can be a very good thing..especially for children..IF it's taught and learned with care. Telling a child they'll always be safe because God's on their side is serious misinformation. It's another to tell him, that realistically that trouble happens.
It's one of the reasons I never could agree with christianity. never acting and trusting some diety to do everything for you. Loads of trouble there.
Most religions however don't teach this, they try to teach people wisdom..which never comes to anyone easily.
Like with all things, religion's not for everyone. A person without religion can be very spiritual and wise without following a certain set of morals in a book.
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@chaygylmommy (2470)
• United States
1 Mar 07
I tend to agree with you. I was brought up Baptist and I do consider myself a christian, but not really a "practicing christian". As I get older, I have questions and my beliefs and faith is challenged. Along the same line as you said...if a pedofile abducts my son, no amount of sitting in my room and praying for her safe return with no harm done will help. I have to get up off my butt and go out and try to find him. Him sitting in a corner praying this person won't hurt him won't help...he has to fight and try to escape. Some people don't beleive in modern medicine and doctors and all...they will pray and God will heal them...well, that's crap! I do believe in the power of the human mind and I believe that meditation, prayer, whatever you want to call it will HELP, but you also need some sort of medicine for certain things. I believe in miracles, but does that mean they are from God? I don't know. I was diagnosed with a brain tumor in the early 90s. I now have NO sign of this tumor...it literally disappeared.. I was diagnosed by 4 different doctors and now I have had 3 tell me it is not there. I would love to think that God healed me so I could give birth to my two beautiful children, but I just don't know if I believe this. As I said, I have very conflicting feelings.
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@raphael_volts (1131)
• India
1 Mar 07
I believe, personaly, religions were meant to be enlightening, don't a lot about the histoy of every other religion but surely I have and idea that some religions like Islam and like that or any other religion when is followed by people without any knowledge of the present or their own capabilities and leaders who are greedy and misguiding then that religion and the people are bound to have a bad name.
For instance religions like christianity and jew etc. , I seriously do not think that any lord or god told them that women should not be given higher posts at religious institutions, but still thats what they follow. In Islam women are not allowed to pray inside the cimmon prayer rooms of mosques, they have seprate confined spaces for their prayers. Many a times ancient customs that were being followed for some other reasons are being taken as religious customs and then forced upon the forthcoming weaker generations by the people on power for their own beliefs and needs. A lot of time people differentiate on the name of religions, and I believe religions were and are their to unite and not to divide cause no religion teches violence, they just teach how to ove and not how to kill. Its just the stupid human desires that are covered beneath the violent spechs of different religious leaders and nothing else at all. More over no religion is made to followed blind folded. Every religion teaches us that Lord helps those, those who help themselves and so it goes that we only pray for stuff that we want and do not leave it all on God to give to us. We surely do need to work. You might be thinking if we need to work for our own security and need then why the heck shoyld we pray, but its not like that. Just compare yourself to people who have been killed in various natural calamities and human disasters, what do you think that you are safe. For me my religion is a base, I am a Christian and i truely believe in all the words Jesus spoke and in no sense ever questioned his presence. For me my religion has only told me to love and unite. For me I have always tried to follow all the traits of my religion. And i always pray not thinking that all will be fulfilled but so that when i am woking i never feel alone.
Thank You
And May GOD Bless YOU
@BishounenNerd (373)
• United States
12 Jun 09
Religion has never worked out for me. You could pray and pray and pray for hours on end, but don't expect any miracles... Moreover, There's been so many holy wars fought in the name of some God or other, and that's turned me off to organized religion as well. But the biggest reason I don't accept religion is because it is based on blind faith.
Emphasis on the word BLIND.
Personally the only religion that has sat right with me is Taoism. I almost thought about joining them, but I never followed through with it. That is the only religion that I think even comes close to being realistic. As for me, I'll just study the sciences, there's more solid facts in scientific theories than there are in the words of Gods who were probably made up.
