My friend and I stumbled into this conversation. We heard this weird quote . . .
IF YOU BELIEVE IN GOD, ANGELS, AND HEAVEN, YOU MUST BELIEVE IN THE DEVIL, DEMONS, AND HELL.
My world history teacher who has some kind of degree in the study of world religions was fascninated with religion when he first started his study. He taught us the basics of each and asked us if we believed and which one did we believe. At the end of the year, we asked him the question. He put his head down and said "I do not know the truth, but once I learned it, it became more confusing. It wasn't about learning it anymore, it's about believing it. Some things people do not need to know. My facsination became a disappointment." This threw me way off! Never did I truely question my own religion until this day.
I am Christian, BUT have you ever questioned religion?
DID YOU KNOW thre are more than 40 organized forms of Religion.
NOT to mention, there are different branches of the same Religion.!!!
So how do we know what to believe?
Some theories include that the GOVERNMENT created religion to give people a form of SANITY, HOPE, FAITH, and MORALITY.
Although the assignment asks us to defend a side, this argument is something I question heavily but refuse to take a matter on.
It's amazing how ignorant people can be on Religion including myself. ONE thing I find people tripping over the most nowadays is this whole 2012 shindig. DID YOU KNOW that Christian Religion does not support that belief? Christians do mention the world coming to an end but "from what I know" you have to read between the lines and TRUELY anaylize the content of the Bible to form a theory of the date.
Matthew 25: 13, "Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man comes."
It is the distinct beliefs of the MAYANS. Now they were smart people. Up until this day they have not been WRONG about their solar calender including elipses and ecplipses. LETS remember when they were killed off so was much of there work. Their calender is one of the ONLY things we have left. THANK YOU, they might have had all the answers to life but OF COURSE all the smart people died early. I think of them more as SCIENTIST. I am not going to go in much depth because I do not want the "Well actually" some people will post as comments.
Which brings me to another agruement.
Religion vs. Evolution? Science vs. Religion?
Science has facts. true. But religion has foundation.
I am just confused as anybody else. Jsut because I do not know the answers do not mean I will give up on religion. Even if it was just made up, It gives people something worth living for and pride for the afterlife.
SO my whole paper is full of random questions.
1)Do you believe in Angels or in Demons?
2)Do you sometimes question Religion and which one is the Truth?
3)Have yur been in a situation where you felt presence?
4)Science vs Religion?
5) What do you think will happen in 2012? and Do you think the world will end eventually?
6) Is casper really a friendly ghost?
I WANTS ANSWERS
REAL?
Personally, I do not par take in the belief that the world will end in 2012. But I do believe that the world will end one day. Our time will come, but it doesnt feel like it will any time soon. Although, like you said there are more than 40 denominations, I believe that all paths lead to God. Just having ths vast number makes it hard to believe that the idea of religion might have been concocted by the government to keep everyone on a tight leesh. As humans, we like to see and hear things in order to believe them. But in this case, we just have to have faith in what we believe and in what is right from wrong.
ReplyDeleteThat makes since. I try to be optimistic about it. I believe the world will end but I pray God won't let it happen while my generation is here. Lol. Different religions all do lead to the same path with a few minor changes but the key word is faith. It's gives us hope and something to live by. True or not true it is something society needed.
ReplyDeleteI believe that where there is a positive source there is also a negative, like the universe that flows, gives, and destroys.
ReplyDeleteIn childhood I did have an experience with a ghost, my house was haunted. I used to tell all my friends at sleepovers my stories and they were always fascinated and scarred. Angels, demons, God, Allah, Buddha whatever you believe, are all connected. I don’t think one is more right than the other. I only disapprove of when people push their religion on others and punish them if they do not. As for the 2012 ideas, I also feel that it is not the end. Sure the end will come but we will never be sure of when. I think it may be some kind of awakening for us, a unity of mind and body
I was friends with a lot of people who called themselves "Satanist" when I was a kid and they also said "God isn't real" so I knew they were just big idiots because if you believe in Satan from the Bible, you believe in God.
ReplyDeleteThe government did not create all religion, because there are dead societies with their own gods that were completely closed off from others. But the most popular English translation of the Bible was overseen by King James, who had a lot of the old testament taken out and most of the sexism put in.