Why is the world not enough? With examples from critics of religion?
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Take a good look at the world.  100 years ago it was a completely different earth than the one we currently occupy.  Sex and violence have replaced morality, and it's only going to get worse over time.  If I had to live without faith that the earth would be restored and that justice would prevail in the end, I wouldn't want to wake up in the morning.  My faith keeps me going in the face of adversity, and that is enough for me.
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I think the world is too religious and not Christian enough.  I don't care that much for religion I care about worship (of God) and I don't care to be politically correct.\n\nChristians need to stand on the truth. Their is one true God and Jesus Christ is his Son and our only hope. All other religions are just that only a religion and without hope.\n\nThe only group not tolorated today are Christians because we are thought to be in-tolarant, I wish that was more true.  Why should we tolirate lies and deciet, why should we listen to opinions that are wrong. If you know the truth don't listen to or allow lies to be promoted around you.\n\nI hope in the end you will stand with the one true God and not lie with those that would decieve you.
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"We don't need to worry about protecting the environment, because Jesus is coming soon." \n- US secretary of the interior (ie. the _environment_) James Watt, 1981\n\nReligion isn't the solution to environmental problems; religion is the problem.  Cults tell people to overpopulate the Earth, use up all natural resources and not to worry about the effects.  Eliminating religion by educating people would do more good.\n\nAs the saying goes, you can't eat dollar bills.  Isn't funny how the religious rail against "worshipping mammon" when money is the only thing that will be left after using up everything?\n\nBut if you actually *do* give a hoot about the environment and want a religious-based slogan, here's one:\n\n"The Earth isn't yours, you're just borrowing it from 'god'.  What condition are you going to return it to him?"\n\n\nAdditional:\n\nHere's another one, although you're probably in school and not an adult, so it's not much use:\n\n"Say no to sex before AND after marriage.  Reduce the population."\n\n\n.
994101
Religion has been used as the justification for so much violence. But humans are naturally violent animals. Religion or no, we will always find something to squabble over.
979668
Religion was conjured up in an attempt to explain the unexplainable and as a method for controlling the masses. It's time that we phase out religion and move toward more rational systems such as science and true democracy.
813885
There are hundreds of religions, and most of them claim that all of the others are wrong.\n\nTake your pick.
395136
For many people living in a Globalizing world is a pretty frightening idea. Traditions that people held on to tightly are slowly unraviling, family values are apparently breaking down, jobs are becoming harder and harder to hold and so on. When you find situations like this it becomes easy to see why people feel empty, or feel like they need somewhere else to turn because life is confronting them with challenges that they are unsure they can handle. One of the better things about religion is that no matter what your belief system you find religion empowers the believer (though you could argue whether or not this is for better or for worse). Religion often provides not only a legitamation of a lifestyle but also a community of likeminded individuals satisfying our needs to be social. For these reasons religion is as important as ever in a secularizing world.
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Terrorism is perfectly justified by a worldview that there is no God. In such a society, people are free to make whatever rules appeal to themselves. It is only the biblical standard, and similar standards in other religions (but not Islam) that keeps people from doing whatever enters their minds to do.
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This is why I am agnostic.  There were just too many unanswered questions for me.  And there was a lot of hypocracy, especially in my congregation.  What's the point of *saying* you believe something when you actually don't?
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Hi,\n    My simple answer to is "lack of knowledge" causes such problems. None of the religious in this world is bad or have wrong things write.
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Hi. It can't. Do you think we should use religion instead?
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Hear the Master:\n\nA religion old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the universe as revealed by modern science, might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths.\nSooner or later, such a religion will emerge. \n\nCarl Sagan
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No one can know the mind of God, because I don’t think anything written in ANY religious book is from a divine source, it’s from people who were trying to control the status quo in whatever time it was written.  It had more to do with politics than it did worship.
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i think the bible is a good book yet fiction, religion is a money and war machine IMHO.  on the other hand people need hope and that is where many find it, we're best off never knowing
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More death, hate, and suffering has been committed in God's name than in any other...\n\nand\n\n"Good men do good things. Bad men do bad things. But for good men to do bad things, that takes religion." Steven Weinberg
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You are absolutely right. Religion is only a construct created to give people comfort and to explain mysterious occurences, and to control the masses.\n\nExplaining strange phenomenon has already been taken care of. If you want to defeat religion and free humanity, you also need to tackle the philosophical implications. There has been insufficient popularization of atheistic ethics for most people to see us as anything other than simple and destructive hedonists. Also, make sure everyone understands that there is just as much beauty and joy in a world without God.\n\nPeace out from your fellow atheist!
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DO YOU love righteousness? Do you hate divisions, fights, hostilities and bloodshed? Does it distress you to see some people acting as if they were superior to those of a different religion, race social class, age or sex? Would you like to see all humans living together in unity, like brothers and sisters? \n\nWhile people suffer and social problems go unsolved, many politicians struggle with each other for wealth and power. While millions are starving, governments spend huge amounts of money on weapons. Meantime, the economy of most countries gets worse and worse, and people fear for the future. \n\nThe truth is, we are living in the most critical time in human history, and thoughtful people recognize this fact. You most likely agree. \n\n\n\nIn many parts of the world people have their religion registered on their identity cards. But how many are really concerned about whether they meet the requirements of their religion? Even more important, how many people feel the need to investigate whether their religion, which they might not have personally chosen, is really pleasing to God? \n\nWhy should we think about God and religion? Why should we talk about a subject that many people do not like to discuss, namely, whether the various religions of mankind are right or wrong? Well, do we not live in a time in which people more than ever need God? Can we not see that world events are developing toward a climax? Do we not feel that the world’s problems are getting out of hand? God’s Word explains world events and shows us that salvation of humans depends on our having a good relationship with God. In other words, it depends on whether someone has really submitted to God. Now is the time for all people to submit to God.