Why do people need religion? If they would just live their life with integrity,they would not need religion?
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Exactly! I ask that question all the time! \n\nWe don't need religion at all. But there are some of us like you and me who know what's right and wrong, and we live by certain principals and we are smart and use emotional intelligence to rationalize our thought processes. We are ethical people. A lot of people out there are not like us. So they do need some kind of religion to put them on the right path cause they are weak! these are not very smart people. They hardly think and that's why they are not ethical either.
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Religion is SUPPOSED to lead you into doing good and living in harmony with others...
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I personally believe that faith and religion serves an important role in society.  I feel that it gives people something to believe in when there is nothing else, it helps people to keep going when they are have no other reason.  It gives people confort and helps pulls them through the  most difficult of times.\n\nIt has also helped to establish societal norms for what behavior is considered acceptable and what isn't, to determination what is considered good versus evil.
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Being ethical has nothing to do with religion.  Is it ethical to strap a bomb to yourself and run into a crowd?  Religion is inspiring people to do just that!  The welfare system is there to help our fellow man in a time of need regardless of religion or creed.
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People need something to give them 'hope' in life. Without any forms of demanding religion, the entire human culture would be in a state of chaos with no 'moral rights'.
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Religions are all about power, and power corrupts.\n\nThank God that you don't need a religion to follow Christ.
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The Golden Rule -- do unto others as you would have them do unto you.\nIt's a concept that's common in many cultures (not just christianity), such as karma.  It's also common sense:  basically, treat others well and they'll treat you well.\nYou don't need religion to lead a moral life.
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Yes and no.\n\nSome people need religion more than others. Religion is a guidance to how one should behave in public and private. It teaches people how to be fair, how to love, how to think when one does not have parents who teaches him/her. Religion is a spring broad, a tool, but it should not be the answer to all problems. Religion teaches morals. It does not specifically help you live your life. It teaches shame, humility and dos and don'ts, but how you live is up to your interpretation.\n\nWhen someone takes religion to an extreme, that's when trouble happens. This is when the world is not at a better place due to religion.\n\nYou will also have the opposite extreme or no religion, no morals, and that's no okay either. Crimes will take place all over, no one would feel safe. It will be survival of the fittest. The law is built on ethical and moral beliefs. If it were not for religion, who would it be to judge that an ax murderer will get life or get off scott free?\n\nTo answer your question, and it is a good one that you are asking, If religion were never to have existed, we may still have ethics and moral, because they are part of religion, but at the same time, no religious people are still ethical and have their own set of morals that they live by (common sense and logic).\n\nAs for now, we do live in a society that has religion and I don't feel that we are in a better place, because at the moment, the other side of the world is fighting over religion and who has the right religion or the better religion. Why can't we all just get along?
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When you base your religion on how non believers feel about it you might as well not have religion.  Stand true to God and God will stand true to you.
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I know a lot of people are moral without believing in God. \n\nBut for me, for most of my life I didn't have much of a backbone, and I'm fairly certain I would have fell into some vices because of peer pressure if it hadn't of been for that last thread of 'no, this is against my religion' keeping me away from it.\n\nThanks
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"everyone" doesn't.  I don't thinkd religion is important.  However,  I do believe that our relationship with God is important.
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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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Imagine living in a totally godless society where people have no higher sense of morality -- there would be rampant crime and the only way to control people would be by the force of law or private security.  Religion enlightens people and inspires them to lead moral lives -- without a concept of God right and wrong becomes no more than whats best for me.\n\nHowever, one thing I'd point out is that its too general to just talk about religion -- whether religion uplifts people depends on whether someone is a Christian, Muslim, Scientologist etc.  In general though, religion is a force for good.
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I believe in God, but religion is to binding. There are good values in every religion. Everyone beleves differently, but when any religion is broken down, God is the basis. So to me religion is not important, and does not limit me to my worship in the lord.
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No, religion, for most people, is a way of explaining things that are essentially unknowable.  Does life have meaning?  What happens to us after we die?  Is there any reason to be ethical, even when we see others apparently succeed by being unethical? Why is so much of life a matter of pain and suffering? Etc., etc.  Religions attempt to provide answers to those questions, and therefore they are a comfort to their believers.
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Religion IS just a way of life.  It is also man made but is helps one keep some sort of focus on life for the better.  There is only one main religion, the religion of the heart which teaches LOVE.
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yes, and no, because since they don't believe in anything they'll live how they choose to live, not having to worry about doing wrong, because they don't believe they're doing anything wrong. and they don't have to worry about upsetting or disappointing a God. Because they have none. And no. because i see that lots of people who believe in stuff find true happiness because they have something to live for and believe in. So i don't know really. Yes and NO