Jesus said leave the dead with the dead, and the living with the living.
Does religion play a significant role in your life??
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@trose18 Jesus Christ assures you, not good deeds alone bruv 🙂
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@kaneki-kun said in Does religion play a significant role in your life??:
@damncuteguy wym bro?
Let me elaborate to you, what I meant. We all believe in humanity either apparently or unapparently. When someone asks us for help, we don't interrogate to him about his believes. We just help him without any apprehension. We help him because our humanity forces us to do so. Hence, the humanity is our universal religion. No offence for you, whether you're a theist or an atheist.
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not even a bit
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Yes i do its important to be calm and better makes you belive in your self
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I believe that at the core of all the religions, similar principles and values are cherished. And I try to follow these values, not a particular religion as such.
religion brings the familiarity on one rope. makes it much easier for living.
It’s total bullshit. Everything happens based on 100% natural processes, some of which are random or at least unpredictable.
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@damncuteguy Lol dw I'm not theist or atheist bro. And I don't think even if I were to be one you'd apologize, because there's one thing I've come to realize and It's all the people saying there's no God and all that salad actually didn't try to look for any God actually. Because if they did they would have found him, bible says to seek and to search God in our hearts.
"Lack of knowledge my people perished" ik there are lots of bs on the internet and I can even find proves about the non existence of God (😂so stupid but hilarious). Trust me guys, born atheists that are now believers just don't believe In God like many of us but they know he does and they do because they got physical proof of his existence (lol). -
@malicealice
Hmm yes it does , I've seen and been and felt it as well -
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@malicealice Yes, to me religion is the way i brought up by my parents, it’s my identity, my way of finding peace and perspective to define how universe works. But i never agree in comparing or categorizing people by their religions, because afterall we all brought up in different ways but are able to write our own paths.
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@malicealice yup
im black and muslim so i go to juma on fridayand ramadan finna start in like two days
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@damncuteguy said in Does religion play a significant role in your life??:
@kaneki-kun said in Does religion play a significant role in your life??:
@damncuteguy wym bro?
Let me elaborate to you, what I meant. We all believe in humanity either apparently or unapparently. When someone asks us for help, we don't interrogate to him about his believes. We just help him without any apprehension. We help him because our humanity forces us to do so. Hence, the humanity is our universal religion. No offence for you, whether you're a theist or an atheist.
give this guy an oscar
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@malicealice So church was where I spent every Sunday as a kid. Bible class in the morning, then church, stay for a fundraiser, then play on the playground. It was the routine every Sunday.
After we moved when I was 7 years old, my mom pulled away and I never went to church with her. Not going to get into some super long life story here, i promise. But my mom didnt tell me to go anymore, and there were a lot of things i didnt have a choice about.
I dont go to church for God anymore. Bcuz tbh I dont know if Im a theist or an atheist at this point. I go because its the one factor in my life that Ive ever had a choice in. Ive been forced to go to school, somewhat forced to pick the career i want. But yet I had the option to go and be apart of a group. And so the faith part for me...not that important
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@malicealice Not really... religions are made to divide humans
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Religion only causes you to put expectations on the way you think about things; "forcing" ideas and practices onto people without there being legitimate reasons for beliefs, and only opinions as to why anything in particular is better or worse than anything else. Religion is the largest mind closeing device on earth. Knowledge is the way to go.
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Religion was relevent when it was formed hundreds if not thousands of years ago. It was made for the people of that time where they couldn't explain natural phenomena in any other way or needed to give them basic definition of right and wrong. If you do wrong man in the sky will punish you. Priests also taught them basic hygiene, etc, etc. But the problem now is that people still desperately cling on to these outdated belief's and proceed to try and justify them in today's terms which is ridiculous. Religion only serves one purpose right now and that's dividing us in terms of religion. Boy and girl likes each other but girl says her family won't accept it because of the religious difference. Family kills daughter for having a relationship with a guy of another religion. You see where I'm going with this ?
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@a-guy_01 just like a said it's now some kind of politics
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Not anymore O:)
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I think religion was formed to give people a sense of purpose in life and maybe also to instill fear of doing bad deeds. In the past when there was no proper system for punishing people who commit crimes maybe the religion helped by using the idea of a higher power watching over you and delivering some amount of retribution for your wrong doings. Anyways, coming to my life it doesn't play any role of significance and so I have been an atheist for some time now.
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@rajeev96 I couldn't agree more with with you pal. Simple logic that everyone could use. As you've mentioned religion has a role of controlling the majority to behave a certain way, which is why I've stopped questioning whether God exist or not since its better if everyone believes he does to uphold order. I don't believe in him but he/she has become an important part in society, i will admit that much.