what makes people worship religion and not God?
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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.
627028
Humans have an innate longing for meaning and purpose. Then as life continues, the need for hope, importance, and worth grow and consume us. Religion fills those needs. But God is not a religion. There is a difference between following a religion and having a relationship with God. Religion will not give you what you need...only God can do that. But you have to discover that for yourself.
209423
Yes. I have had people put my religion down before they even knew anything about it. Wicca. People(Christians in particular) assume that I worship Satan. I don't even believe in God or Satan. Satanists worship Satan, and Satanists came about after Christianity was thought of. My religion was around long before Christianity. It's just a form of manipulating energy. That's the easiest way of describing it.
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Two reasons:\nThe first is that a lot of people have trouble seeing other points of view.  They believe their religion, and their view of "God" and can't imagine anyone seeing it any differently or believing anything different because in their minds, thats just the way it is.\nThe second reason is that defining "God" is no easy task.  Even given one's set beliefs and intending that as their meaning of "God", its very difficult to express what is meant.
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As a Christian, I believe that there are no religions (other than Christianity) are of God.  Any religion that is not of God is leading people away from God.  There is no good in it.
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Self-Worship instead of God.
996333
I agree, people worship Jesus and Pastors/Ministers/Bishops/Popes/. Per God's word in the "original" Bible false Idols are Blasphemous. That has never sat well with me. As the "original" Bible stated "God is within you". Making everyone God. Meaning you have the power. I am not religious, religion is such a crock! I have studied many religions and all seem to have been basically enacted to stop humans from animalistic behavior by scaring them. All religion was created for was to keep order, stating that if you acted un-Godly you would end up in an Eternal Hell. The only problem with this is that nature still exists. In nature animals kill, rape, are homosexual, and live un-Godly. Yet most say all of God's creaturs end up in Heaven. HUH? Just live by the Golden Rule (do unto others as you would have them do unto you). Not for God's sake, but it really does make life easier. If you yell at someone they will yell back, if you reason with someone they will reason with you.
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Religion, but not the true one. Jesus' true followers obey his instruction to love their enemies and to pray for those persecuting them. They do not go to war for any reason.
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There are many religious people who simply believe what they're told to believe, they don't analyze it or question it, and if someone tells them that someone who doesn't believe in God is an enemy of God, they know from prior knowledge that the only enemy of God is Satan and so people who are the enemy of God must be worshippers of Satan.\n\nNot to say, at all, that any of this is true or believable, but that's the cultish Christian mind-state.
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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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this answer is for non believers : People believe in god because humans are weak spiritually, we are unable to accept things and are constantly hoping for the impossible. But how to achieve it and will they be able to accept it if they do get their goals? therefore, in order to give themselves mental support or to feel better and explain things on a more "fiction based" way so that they can accept it, They created God. God to you may be nothing. But to these people, they feel that it is real, they believe it is real and to them it is truly real. You who do not believe will never get to experience it be it true or false for the brain is a marvelous thing.
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Many religions consider God to be something above/apart from/outside of mortals (people). In these frameworks, God is worshiped because He/She/It created people and controls the world around us. \n\nOther religions and philosophies see the individual soul as unique, and on its own spiritual growth path. Under this model, every soul has its own place in the universe, but there is no single overarching entity called God.\n\nStill other religions and philosophies split the difference. The soul is unique to the individual, but is also a portion or component of the Divine. In this framework, God is the collective awareness of the Universe itself, and we are all parts of that collective. One of my friends calls this God as Borg. I prefer to think of it as being part of a family. The family has a collective identity/personality, but each individual member of the family is still unique.\n\nMany religions will tell you that their approach is the only correct one. Personally, I recommend looking at how each of these ideas resonates within you, and finding your own Truth.
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God is an absolute component to Morality therefore atheism is a religion that worships themselves which is idolatry. They said that they are sinless and they would go to Heaven before Christian would which is a true sign of arrogance and pride in themselves which again is idolatry.
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I'm religious, but your question is still offensive.  If someone doesn't believe in God, she or he can still be "nice and kind and good".  (And, as you noted, there are religious people who are not.)  But someone who doesn't believe in God *does* lose something by somehow being forced to believe--her/his freedom of choice!\n\nJust as you have the freedom to believe in your religion, and I have the freedom to believe in what I assume is a *different* one, others have the freedom to believe that we're *both* full of crap!
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No it doesn't,as Christians we don't worship tree's but God only.Yet God allows us to have the things we like so long as they are kept in the right perspective.God is reasonable although there are those who fail to realize it.
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You shouldn't worship anything or anyone.  If there really was an omniscient and benevolent deity, why would he want you to worship him?  \n\nAnyone that wants to be worshipped has some serious self-esteem issues.
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:) Good question!\nLet us put it this way.... without religion, people do what they want to do (if you keep aside law for a minute). With religion, people still do what they want to do, but feel guilty, unhappy, worried or self conscious about it.\nThis is because it is religion that classified things into good and bad, acceptable and unacceptable, noble and ignoble! \nNow too, most of us do what pleases us, but end up feeling good or bad, because that is all we learnt from religion!