You don't need to be religious to be kind hearted or generous though ,anyone can be that.
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What is the purpose of religion?
- Thread starter Dawnofhope
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You don't need to be religious to be kind hearted or generous though ,anyone can be that.
They all seem to start off as true religions IMHO. But they are not the only ones.
So what doesn't count as a true religion, iyo?
Of course not. Then again these have been amongst the core values of the religious faiths within the civilisations we have come from.
Religion should be like a healing medicne. The caue of love and unity amongst people.
When it causes hatred and disunity, then that religion is like a poison, and not true religion at all.
To leave such a religion is a truly religious act.
It can be said that ALL religions cause disunity.
In my country before the abrahmic religions emerged we were pagan.
Mister Silver
Faith's Nightmare
Not particularly. What little good it claims to do pales in comparison to the harm it does, at least from my perspective.
Why?
Looncall
Well-Known Member
Nah, it just pretends to provide those things to keep its pews and collection plates full.
Why be part of a religion that causes hate and disunity? It is contrary to justice and the needs of humanity.
If I am sick and a physician insists on a medicine that aggravates my illness, I would want another opinion.
If it is the truth?
Whose notion of justice? And how do you know what the needs of humanity are?
I am a Baha'i. I believe in God and Baha'u'llah as God's Manifestation of God for this day. His words confirm this truth for me.
The All-Knowing Physician hath His finger on the pulse of mankind. He perceiveth the disease, and prescribeth, in His unerring wisdom, the remedy.
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Okay. I don't think we can go any further with this conversation.
No problem. All the best.
osgart
Nothing my eye, Something for sure
many do just that. others are sincere about it, even when it's total myth.
for me religion it is a personal hope though I don't follow any of the religions out there.
it's a form of questioning, and a Reliance based on reasoning what could be?
I totally realize it holds nothing for many people.
I enjoy the concepts of the soul and spirit, and truth, and faith, and belief, they are useful to me.
even if we cease to exist upon death, it's still a form of exploration to me. and it still holds insights to me that science may sweep under the rug and totally dismiss.
for instance, the concepts of love, charity, benevolence, justice, compassion, patience, prosperity, all are religious in nature, even if it's one's own religion only and nobody else follows it.
religion asks the question, what's the worth of the soul, and what's the worth in life?
Sen McGlinn
Member
Not always, religion played a major role in the development of parliamentary government in Europe, via the English non-conformists, and again later: Cromwell and his network were not part of the Anglican Establishment! So that's twice in English history that revolution/ evolution has come about through changes in religious ideas.
https://www.amazon.com/World-Turned-Upside-Down-Revolution/dp/0140137327
The same could be said of the Constitutional Revolution in Iran: a large part of the modernizing activists had a background in the Babi / Bahai Faiths, and the Bahai communities served as a network across the country for transmitting new ideas and putting them into action locally. Bahais internally were treating women as equal, giving boys and girls modern western-style education, and so forth. They were not revolutionaries (most of the English non-conformists were also not revolutionaries), but the effects were revolutionary.
The Taipei "rebellion" is another instance, but i know little about it. And the Mahdi rebellion, ditto.
Another occasion when religion has been the catalyst for change that the economic + political order was not seeking is the abolition of the slave trade and slavery in the West.
syo
Well-Known Member
that's true.