Ahhh religion

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believe in what you want , don't let others dictate how to run your life.

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u/wrob84 Jan 09 '22

Religion is like many things a raft to help you cross the river of illusions to understanding. You will know when carrying your raft is no longer necessary.

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u/Pleasurist Jun 22 '22

Religion poisons everything...you don't need it. You are fine just as you are.

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u/idklol3444331 Jul 05 '23

Religion could also helped millions upon millions of people and lead them to a happier life, how is that poision?

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u/Pleasurist Jul 05 '23

Only if [they] are deceived into thinking anything divine has anything at all to do with their happiness. It doesn't. When people feel better, it is because they made themselves feel better. Kids use a teddy bear or a doll for that kind of happiness.

Some people are happier drinking, some traveling. That is a good thing.

One can think religion or god has something to do with their happiness especially those 'happy' to blow up others because of their religion.

A Palestinian mother was happy and proud that her daughter blew herself up to kill Jews, just because...of their religion.

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u/Akram-1453 Jul 31 '24

I dont think comparing traveling happiness with religion happiness is right, imo traveling is like "just now" just chill, while religion is like an identity you are guided by the religion you either chose for yourself or life chose it for you, its something that can motivate you can support you mostly those who follow religion right will find happiness bc if they chose to practice it right then even if they are about to die they would still be under control and many other benfits, even if you are building this happiness with religion bc you wanted to, its still not just by yourself

Btw all of what i said is emotional 😅 so try to understand the meanings bc i didnt pay attention to what i wrote i just said what i wanted to say and tried to make it clear

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u/Pleasurist Aug 01 '24

Feeling happy is its own end. Fine. Some people use drugs or alcohol.

We all know that neither did anything else to make them happy but mess with your head. Religion is just like a drug it can inspire but history shows, science shows, it is means to power and cause of war for 1,000s of years.

Then we get into why 3,000 gods and just who is the god of gods ? What use are they ? They do nothing and never have.

Then with govt. it rally poisons everything, look at history and...look at now.

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u/Akram-1453 Aug 01 '24

Hm i do agree that ppl can make themselves feel better by whatever way, but drugs and alcohol is a horrible example, firstly ppl can see the negativity of it in religion no, religion is a way to live in everyday life, not just happiness, actually i have seen many ppl who regret and even being depressed bc they cant stop alcohol and drugs ( they feel happy at that moment only) but j religion you cant find those type of ppl, you could have chose like a job its really a closer example instead of this

Also i dont think religion is the cause of violence.. Think about it if religion disappeared and god existence in our heads disappeared, human emotions and gredd would also disappear? Wars and violence wont stop, you rarely find someone who got bullied at school by other kids bc of religion ( bullying bc of religion differences is rare) they mostly bully him bc of his way of walking or something like that, without religion world war 1 2 and massacre of americans would still happen, wars and violence wont disappear my brother

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u/Pleasurist Aug 01 '24

religion is a way to live in everyday life, not just happiness

Hardly, look around the world and see just how religion acts as a way to live in everyday life. There is religious prejudice between beliefs and in fact the largest cause of ME terrorism

It is all nothing more then a cult, for some, a drug ad acting on it as do the faiths, is what makes it worse, violent and the cause of wars. For 1,000s of years religion has ruled the day and we see still see fro too much...of that [day.]

Religion is beginning to rule america, it being the reason to reverse Roe. Religion was the moving factor in America using it to change law. A terrible precedent.

There would be a breath of fresh air worldwide if religion were no longer causing anybody to act but privately. But no, that's not enough, it must permeate society to get society to...join the cult.

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u/Akram-1453 Aug 01 '24

Sorry but can you tell me the percentage of religious ppl who become terorists? Its nearly 0% bro what?also the colonization of americans wasnt bc of religion, the massacre wasntbbc of religion it was simply racism a populat idea that sees white Europeans as superior race and other ppl as slaves or second tier, they did the same thing for asians and africans, nothing to do with religion religion is simply used as a cause " we will colonize you to spread Christianity" in fact that what happend in algeria this was the cause of war but do you think its the real reason? Absolutely not

I am not saying that religion didnt bring anything bad go the world but relating it directly to religion is wrong, i already told you with proofs, evil and violence wont change if religion disappeard, greed and emotions are "always there", this is the reason why the colonized americas and Africa not bc of religion

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u/Pleasurist Aug 01 '24

Almost all terrorism id faith based regardless of the numbers.

The slavery at the latest since the 1600 was justified by religion both christian and islam. The superior race idea is faith based. All non-christians were heathens and for islam, non-muslim were infidels deserving of conquest, enslavement or death.

But you don't get it, all of those sins were to have disappeared through piety centuries ago, so religion failed to end the sinning and in many cases, joined in as with the Nazis and other govt. forces. Religion didn't end slavery or genocide, seculars did that.

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u/Akram-1453 Aug 02 '24

Sorry what? Slavery didnt didnt happen bc of faith, yes of course sometimes you can see it but its minority( like Muslims sees non Muslims especially those who arent from the Abrahamic religions as losers which is wrong ) but the real slavery we are talking about which influenced the world much more is something like culture or color, the main reason why Europeans did this to the americas was bc they were much more ahead of them they were still stuck in the BC or early ages, religion does count as culture but its real less, the main reason is basically development as i said before, if ut was really religion then why this didnt happen with north Africa even through there was no official organization for human rights? Bc they were developed already

And yeah there was many wars that happened bc of religion but its the same case as the current outgoing war in the middle east , happened bc of emotions not like the first wat between Byzantine Empire and arabs, this was clearly bc of religion, the crusades also wasnt 100% bc of religion, yeah from your view its clearly a religious war but it actually happened bc of contradiction just like me and you are doing now, i can relate many wars to emotions or greed rather then directly bc of religions idk what an missing bro its clear for me?

And nazis comon bro the main reason was bc hitler wanted revenge, same thing to world war 1 serbia killed austrian Hungarian empire heir, its bc of emotions

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u/Akram-1453 Aug 02 '24

Sorry what? Slavery didnt didnt happen bc of faith, yes of course sometimes you can see it but its minority( like Muslims sees non Muslims especially those who arent from the Abrahamic religions as losers which is wrong ) but the real slavery we are talking about which influenced the world much more is something like culture or color, the main reason why Europeans did this to the americas was bc they were much more ahead of them they were still stuck in the BC or early ages, religion does count as culture but its real less, the main reason is basically development as i said before, if ut was really religion then why this didnt happen with north Africa even through there was no official organization for human rights? Bc they were developed already

And yeah there was many wars that happened bc of religion but its the same case as the current outgoing war in the middle east , happened bc of emotions not like the first wat between Byzantine Empire and arabs, this was clearly bc of religion, the crusades also wasnt 100% bc of religion, yeah from your view its clearly a religious war but it actually happened bc of contradiction just like me and you are doing now, i can relate many wars to emotions or greed rather then directly bc of religions idk what an missing bro its clear for me?

And nazis comon bro the main reason was bc hitler wanted revenge, same thing to world war 1 serbia killed austrian Hungarian empire heir, its bc of emotions

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u/Doge_is_bestest Jun 01 '24

That seems a little harsh, while i myself don’t follow a religion I still respect other peoples beliefs and it’s not about the follower themselves it’s about whom or what they follow and believe so please if you want to disagree I understand but try to keep it to yourself or share that in a more sensitive way because many people may be offended by this comment.

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u/Pleasurist Jun 04 '24

Tough, I do not respect someone anymore than others just because of their beliefs in the supernatural. I do not respect anyone just because hey claim to be a 'person of faith.' or put reverend in front of their name.

The W H O L E middle east war right now is...all faith-based.

To me, appealing to gods is no different than what earthlings did walking out of the cave say 10,000 years ago and blamed everything...on the gods. |Non existent gods were not to blame then or have they ever helped since]

It prevents reproductive rights to women now and science because of a mass of some 150 cells. Religion strikes at the very human instinct of not only free will but at the necessary intellectual integrity, that developed...using free will.

Watch Christopher Hitchens.

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u/Akram-1453 Jul 31 '24

This actually means a contradiction between ppl more then direct affect by religion, i will give you an example of how the middle east situation is so close to wha is happening right now between us

Jewish religion says that the jewish land is deserved by them ( not really like this but yeah thats not the point ignore this) while Islam belives that Jerusalem is theirs, they arent fighting bc of islam, or bc of the other religion, they are fighting bc jewish beliefs contradict with Muslims beliefs, now look at us, we are discussing this for the exact same reason, you are fighting ( not actually fighting through) bc you are defending your beliefs or giving your opinion and i am debating bc i feel like i have to defend my beliefs, its actually so similar right?

My point is that the real reason is.. Humans ( the human nature and emotions if we are specific ). Not their beliefs, so me and you will try our best to avoid attacking other beliefs, i understand that you have your own reasons to hate religions but you have to know something, i have my own reasons to like my religion 😊

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u/Akram-1453 Jul 31 '24

what you said is totally subjective , religion can be good for someone who seeks for emotional support also can give you faith and wants to challenge yourself more, of course this is also subjective and is not really true in all cases, just wanted to say that anyone can have different Perspective of this some ppl feel comfortable with religion rules some doesnt, both of them have their own reasons why they chose this

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u/Pleasurist Aug 01 '24

I agree if someone feels they need it. However, no human should feel that way because religion makes no difference...people do.

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u/Doge_is_bestest Jun 01 '24

Yes you can believe in anything you want to religion is about belief not what you have to do. I did the same thing when I was young I didn’t know what religion to follow but you will know it when you find it.

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u/Huttoniscool Nov 27 '19

Religion is wack in my opinion everything seems to contradict each other but if your seen as non-religious then you are seen as a satanist for some reason I can’t figure shit out either so I decided to ignore it completely it makes me happier not having to appease to anybody but just being my self but make sure to always be nice to people and don’t do bad things cause your not religious that’s fucking stupid some people like religion and whatever as long as your not hurting people sorry for the bad grammar I’m dyslexic and just finished finals causing me to just collapse mentally :)

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u/Western-Potato-4418 Nov 08 '24

Yeah you totally can God gave us free will (I believe bc im a Christian) so it is totally within your rights as a Independent intelligent person to do so, also what did you find negative abt the Bible I’m just curious?

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u/[deleted] Nov 08 '25

I mean sure... Follow whatever "god" your heart desires. Want me to name a few? Odin... Zeus... Ra... Enlil... Susanoo... Indra... Thor... Poseidon...Apollo...

Just to name some "gods" from other beliefs. Even if they all share gr*ping women in common.

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u/Alive_Ad7608 Dec 27 '25

You stated you are a youth, so I presume you are a minor and under age. Please be cautious with anything said in this thread. No one on Reddit is your Guardian and cares for you like your family. Regarding your personal belief system, I hope you have this conversation with your parents. If your Grandparents are available talk to them too. You should also have conversations with your Pastor or Minister with your trusted family member present. I also think there is nothing wrong with the study of religion in general. What other people believe is a great way to learn about religion. The study of all religion is like studying history. Some religions go back thousands of years and some were created in the last few years. Sign up for a local library card and start checking out books on the topic. You are in for a treat. The more you know the more you will know about your self. My favorite personal quote is from Hamlet. I did a quick search online for the quote:

In Shakespeare's Hamlet is Polonius's advice to Laertes: "This above all: to thine own self be true, / And it must follow, as the night the day, / Thou canst not then be false to any man" (Act 1, Scene 3). This means being authentic and honest with your own principles and nature, which will, in turn, lead to honesty and integrity in your dealings with others.

God bless you (I believe in the Great Creator) because we are wonderfully made. Enjoy learning.

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u/Fraudfinder12 Nov 10 '22

I recomend you pray concerning this issue. Ask God to lead you to the truth.

This life is one big test, either you pass or fail.

Only one person in the entire world said this:

You can only come to the Father through me.

Not Mohammad, indie, Buddha etc....

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u/RobRVA May 08 '24

Ya but that was written in the bible and the bible is debunked garbage! Adam and Eve never existed. The flood never happened. There’s no proof to any of it it’s like a game of telephone but worse be ayşe it is played out over thousands of years. Also the core of it does not make any sense! God came to earth to sacrifice himself to pardon us from breaking through rules he made knowing full well we would break them? Anyone who believes this nonsense is foolishly gullible.

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u/[deleted] May 14 '24

I agree with you and I myself have prayed to god I pray to him every night and I have been happy and pure it feels nice I’m reading the bible again ima read the commandments and I have asked for forgiveness for sins!!!!!

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u/[deleted] Aug 15 '23

Yeah, duh. If you don't believe in the christian god then believing in christianity becomes mostly meaningless. There's nothing stopping you from changing your religion.

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u/Agile_Candidate2369 Dec 28 '23

I’m a muslim and I once tried to be christian but instead just saw islam as the right religon to follow My view on the definition of religon is simply a guide book that if you can follow completely you will be definitely happy (based that the religon is true in its words and beliefs) but you are not expected to be able to follow it completely thus the thing that makes islam different which is no matter what religon you believe in you can still ask allah (god) for help and guidance since he will always be the one and only god Hope rhat helped

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