why do people believe in organized religion?
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A group of people can bring positive energy to anyone's religious practice.  That said, there's plenty of groups out there that can also bring negative energy to someone's practice.  \n\nSometimes groups have nothing more to offer the individual and in those cases either the individual turns around and offers themselves to the group or they leave the group.
685982
Something that was installed into my brain through the form of organized religion.
780965
I believe in live and let live.Just don`t tell me i am going to hell or i am a sinner.\nI am a human being.I don`t need religion to make me feel GOOD about myself. I don`t need religion to make me feel guilty or BAD either.\nI think people waste too much time fighting about religion rather than fixing the world`s problems.\nWe need real solutions to todays threats to society.\nDisease,Hunger ,Global Warming and energy sources..\nThe above are all worth getting together as a people to solve for the betterment of all.Fighting over anything that can`t be proven is trivial in my book.
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I don't believe in Atheism but I do believe that people should be free to believe what ever they want.\n\nI think that organized religion at its most basic level does serve a good purpose.  It allows people to worship God and congregate with people of similar beliefs.  However, it does terrible damage when those same followers go out into the world and try to force their beliefs upon other people, especially children.\n\nMorality is not exclusive to religion but it can be exclusive to environment.  Different cultures experience and believe in different moral standards.  In some places of the world it is okay to beat children and spouses, cheat on your husband/wife, etc.  Obviously different cultures believe different things.\n\nI don't think that the world would be better if we got rid of all of the religions.  I think the world would be better if all of the religions respected each other and acted peacefully.  Peace and love is what this world needs no matter if it comes in the form of religion or directly from an Atheist's heart.
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Some people will tell you they believe in God mainly because it has been drilled into their head from childhood-- many parents have used fear to make their children afraid not to believe. (i.e. If you don't believe this you we be torchered in hell for eternity.) \n\nOn the other hand, many defiant people grow up to hate the dogma of religion. mainly because they have been turned off by all of the "threats of damnation" by their parents or other influencial people in their lives. \n\nNeither of these reasons are good reason to believe in or not believe in a Higher power (God).\n\nIn reality, believeing in God is a Gut thing. For me it is logical and feels right that is why I believe. I am a christian not because of my upbringing but because I believe in the logical thinking of Christ. Christ was a thinker that didn't allow dogma to overide common sense. Here is a good example of common sense from Luke:\n"1 On a Sabbath day, Jesus went to dine at the house of a leader of the Pharisees. So they were watching him. 2 Now there was a man in front of him who had the dropsy. 3 Jesus asked the lawyers and the Pharisees: "Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath day or not?" 4 But they made no answer. So he took him, healed him, and let him go.\n     5 Then he said to them: "If your donkey or your ox falls into a ditch on a Sabbath day, anyone of you would pull him out immediately." 6 They were unable to answer him."\n\nFollow your heart, follow your gut, follow logic and you will find God.\n\n--My 2 cents....
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People need religion because they are scared to face the truth.  Thinking that there is someone or something more intelligent and powerful than you who is looking out for you and loves you and has your best interests at heart is more comforting than accepting the truth.  If people accepted the truth, then they would realize how insignificant and powerless they are in proportion to the universe, and that would just be way too hard for most people to face.  Religion offers answers, and tells you that everything will be easy if you 'just believe in whatever'.  Religion tells people that they are the 'special ones' the 'chosen ones' that they are right in everything they do if they only believe.  Also religion symbolizes things that are actually taking place in people's lives.  Just about everyone can relate to the religious stories if they try.  I believe that things can be learned from religion, but only if it is taken purely as symbolisim.  like little kid's stories that teach lessons, only religious stories are meant to teach bigger lessons to everyone.  It's easy to see why so many people desperately need religion and take it as fact.
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The same reasons people practice any religeon. It's what they prefer to believe in. It makes the most sense to them.
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It depends on the person. Organized religion, yes does lead people down a different path then fate would possibly have it...but some people do not have such a strong will to follow their own independence. Organized religion can provide guidance for some people who are easily influenced, especially for the better. In other cases though, there are people who detest organized religion because, well, it does change people's mind frames greatly. Guess it really comes down to if you're a type A or type B person. intereseting question.
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Religion should be serving its members. It is the medium to enlighten oneself or reach god. \n\nWhen religion becomes organised it does the opposite. A group of people take authority and start telling people what to do, claiming it in name of God.
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People have a need to believe in something outside of themselves. Some people believe in reason. Some people believe in a god. It is what ever works for you and you should not try to put down another’s beliefs
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I agree, I think it is because they're basically afraid. They need to believe that what ever happens is for a reason nothings random. Many of them couldn't exist without believing that. They have to believe there is an after life and a god. \nSo, anyone who doesn't think their way is a threat to their belief. Then there is the fact there are some many different groups that think different from each other then add us the none believers in, they have to question why they believe and we don't.\nDo we ever try to convince them they are wrong? No we don't care. That is my take.
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organized religions believe in proselytizing. they go to other countries and culture and want natives to convert and believe alien(foreign) heroes as their own. now all natives cultures have their personal beliefs and heroes religious beliefs. they may sympathize that Jesus was killed for his belief or that Mohammad tried to modernize Arabs. But they had really nothing to do with other native cultures. many of us do not have concept of original sin. many of us had already a well structured society, religious beliefs deep philosophies and law and do not need Arabian system either.\n\nSo the organized religions has to destroy local culture, social structure,history . they have to kill those who try to save it. then when natives loose sense of pride and had forgotten about their beliefs missionaries step in. they reestablish those things but according to their own culture and belief system. They rewrite history telling locals had no religion or satanic beliefs. they downplay or totally disregard their achievements. without it they would not convert.
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It's really only the fundamentalists in certain religions that believe that kind of foolishness. There are lots of religious people who have progressive, inclusive, and ecumenical understandings of their faith. There are lots of religious people who while devoted to their own faith, respect other faiths as spiritual paths.
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Glory of God,\n\nI like your name, by the way.... \n\nI think people create religious movements to separate themselves from the rest of society and to make a statement as far as their beliefs......\n\nDon't believe in them...... they all claim to know the way....  (Luke 17:21).... They say, "look here"... or "Look, there!"  We have the answers"....... But, the answer we really need is already inside of us....\n\n\n((ancient chinese secret hahaha-- I mean...er hmm.. ancient Japanese secret...  ))\n\n\nYour sister,\nGinger
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Everyone needs something to believe in, and religion gives many people that.
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no relataion at all... religion believe of some supernatural and high form of being away from human understanding , atheists are non believers.....\n\n\nReligion is commonly defined as a group of beliefs concerning the supernatural, sacred, or divine, and the moral codes, practices, values, institutions, and rituals associated with such belief. It is sometimes used interchangeably with "faith" or "belief system"[1] In the course of the development of religion, it has taken many forms in various cultures and individuals. Occasionally, the word "religion" is used in the more restrictive sense of "organized religion" — that is, an organization of people supporting the exercise of some religion, often taking the form of a legal entity\n\nAtheism, in its broadest sense, is an absence of belief in the existence of gods. This definition includes both those who assert that there are no gods, and those who make no claim about whether gods exist or not. Narrower definitions, however, often only qualify those who assert there are no gods as atheists, labeling the others as agnostics or simply non-theists.\n\nThere is no single ideology that all atheists share, nor are there any institutionalized rituals or behaviors. There are certain individuals whose religious or spiritual beliefs some might describe as atheistic, though those holding such beliefs do not normally describe themselves as atheists.
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I agree with you. Some people have weak minds, and need religion to support them. For some of these people, it's a benefit, for others, a mental parasite. Some people have strong minds yet still hold religious notins dearly. That's the way things are.\n\nI have neither. I am an atheist and a satanist, so I am just giving my outsider's observations.