RELEGION .do you think that people know the relegion they believe in .Can a simple person get it ?
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Religion...If you look at them all...god based in someway,sprinkled heavily with man's do's and don't's\nAfter years of searching,Church going,even serving in Africa on missions...I found that religion in it's self is poison,and even more deadly to those who have never heard about The Christ Jesus.\nReally.......The Holy Bible is the only guide to knowing the truth, After all it's the book they (Christians)say they are fallowing.\nMyself...I claim no religion...When I am asked what religion are you? I say,I'm a fallower Of The Christ Jesus.\nJust keeping it simple...After all...who did Jesus hang out with while here on earth...The simple.
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I think religious people are just under-educated.  I was raised in a strict Lutheran home, and I sounded just like all the religious folk on this site when I talked.  I went off to college and learned a lot about the world I live in and gradually drifted away.  I still believe in a God of some sort, I'll even go as far as saying I still believe in the Christian God, but I will never again subscribe to any organized religion.  There are just too many questions the church has no good answer for, and as an educated person, I need answers.  I think if everyone branched out and learned about all the things they could, there would be far fewer religious people in this world.  It's easy to soak up everything a pastor or preacher says to you if you don't know any better.
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That is a simplistic view. I think there are more dynamics involved with there beleifs however. I think with any organized religion.....it cannot be defined with just one sentance.
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I think it helped as far as anyone who is now a believer in that way of life, knows that there is something out there that they can join in on.  Not my cup of tea, but who am I to tell people how to practice thier religion... I had never heard of it before the book.
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YES.  I BELIEVE ENOUGH TO FOLLOW.\n\nTHERE IS A DIFFERENCE OF SIMPLY BELIEVING, AND BELIEVING ENOUGH TO FOLLOW.\n\n\n.
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Man is doing what comes natural, when he wants to know everything.  That is not odd.  I have yet to meet a studied, religious person that I respect and that is knowledgable, that claims they know it all.  I don't think that is possible.
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No. I am not a really big religious person but i still believe that if someone is, that is a major life decision and they should believe in what they think is best. Not believe in something just because you do.
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I think people believe in religion because it is much easier to follow along with everyone.  There is comfort and safety in numbers and if you just do what the nice man tells you to do, you'll get into heaven and won't have to do any real work to get there!  YAY!!!!  lol...really, don't people wonder about the fact that the huge miracles that you read about in the bible just don't seem to happen? it's because people forgot how to believe in themselves and in their own spirituality and began to believe in what they were told to believe.
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Would seem like it, wouldn't it?  Think without religion people would have to turn to common sense ... :)
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"Frost: Do you believe in the Sermon on the Mount?\n\nGates: I don't. I'm not somebody who goes to church on a regular basis.  The specific elements of Christianity are not something I'm a huge believer in.  There's a lot of merit in the moral aspects of religion.  I think it can have a very, very positive impact.\n\nFrost: I sometimes say to people, do you believe there is a god, or do you know there is a god? And, you'd say you don't know?\n\nGates: In terms of doing things I take a fairly scientific approach to why things happen and how they happen. I don't know if there's a god or not, but I think religious principles are quite valid."\n\nHe seems a little agnostic.
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Yes. That's the trouble with BELIEF. You accept something on faith, whether it makes sense or whether there's any proof at all.
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i am catholic but i believe most of what you said especially the end part. people trust catholicism for the same reason they trust any other religion (i don't know why i follow the religion i am just guided) people use religion because they have weak minds and hearts. there is nothing wrong with this but religion gives them somethin to hold onto. someone in history i believe it was Marx or Stalin said the church was the "opiate of the masses"
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I just did a quick search to try to get some grasp of what Ayyavazhi is, because I had not heard of it.  Thank you for introducing to me this religion or sect.  From what I can tell, it seems like a fine religion for those who wish to follow it, and I have no problem with it as long as it does not insist that those who follow another way are wrong.  For example, from what I was able to discern, it advocates no murtis and discourages ritual.  That is fine if that is the way which best leads a particular person to God.  However, if murtis and rituals help another person attain God more quickly, then they ought to be entitled to use them.  So I say it is an acceptable path so long as it is not condemning of those who do not wish to follow it as the best way for them.
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Good Question, although you got a little lost in your typing there. \n\nI have to agree with your premise though. All in all, I think, and remember this is just my opinion, that you're on the right track. I think it's how a person lives and treats him/her self and others, that really matters. \nIf God really wants everyone to be one religion or another, there has to be some wiggle room in the end for those who just didn't know the difference or who were simply confused over the enormity of it all. \nPersonally I'm a God fearing Agnostic. Meaning I believe in God, but I don't believe in any one specific religious view of God. I know my actions towards others is a reflection of Gods' plan and if I'm cruel then I'm doing evil. \nIf I help someone out of my own kindness then I'm doing God's work.\nI don't believe God watches each of us individually, that's why He gave us free will. \nWe as individuals must look inward to find peace, love and goodness. Each of us must reach that place to pull out the goodness and extend it to our neighbors.
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Believeing that every person walks their own path in life, toward whatever they perceive to be their destiny, carrying their own beliefs. I don't know who or what my opposition would be to that, nor can I oppose that belief, myself.\n\nThank you for climbing my mountain of wisdom.\n\nNext question, please
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Simple people are afraid of what they don't know and don't understand. Isn't it so much easier to go to church and swallow down all that brainwashing that they feed them? \nOf course it is - it doesn't require thinking with their own heads, it doesn't require reading and learning and researching and making mistakes and developing themselves...\nThey just get taught a pretty story and told it is the only truth. What an ideal world, isn't it?! Too bad it's ot that simple. \n\nPeople have been deceived and brainwashed through centuries and millenia. We can't expect them to suddenly start thinking. Organised forms of religion have caused much too much damage by burning everyone who dared to ponder another side of truth...
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Im one of Jehovah Witnesses and I know what you are talking about. I ask a question and people start telling me what my faith believes, and most of the time they are soooo far off. It just bugs me that people hear from other people and automatically believe its true instead of asking the person who would know the truth.