Does religion play a significant role in your life??


  • @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.


  • @malicealice yup
    im black and muslim so i go to juma on friday

    and ramadan finna start in like two days


  • @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.

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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
    But i guess you could say I have an active religious life


  • @malicealice Not really... religions are made to divide humans


  • 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.


  • 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 ?


  • @a-guy_01 just like a said it's now some kind of politics


  • Not anymore O:)


  • 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.


  • @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.


  • Only when I think about the fact that I’m going to die one day


  • @rajeev96 said in Does religion play a significant role in your life??:

    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.

    Huh!? Who told you in the past there was no proper system for punishing people who committed crimes!??? I where'd you hear/read that? Let's rather say it's today that people are even more encouraged to do bad because of the current system (lol). What ever bad you'll do m, I you're just face a court be judged and sent to prison for sometime or lifetime!!! And if you're lucky enough to fall on a badass attorney and have enough money you can just pay her or pay him sooooooo well that they'll put their whole life into getting you out of that case. Sometimes even people sentenced to death get out of jail by order of the court for what they call "good behavior" or something like that (I'm not really into law). Meanwhile, Before!!!? Jeez mah I said Before most people were very afraid of doing bad and for the simple reason and fact that even innocent people died for things they didn't do (which still happens today😑🤦), as in if you checked on the time of slavery, kings, northern men, WW (I) and all that squad...you'll see that in most cases the sentence was death and it was done publicly (opened to the eyes of everyone) to serve as an example to others, before democracy and all these current protocols came and gave some freedom to civilians who now abuse of it and do what ever they want, especially if they are very rich and dusted to pay themselves attorneys and some of the judges in court😴.

    So in other words you're wrong about religion was formed to scare people from doing bad. And I don't expect you to admit it coz you said you're not a believer (which I'm fine with🤷), but note that Islam is the first ever religion and when it came it was not to have people be scared of a divinity or whatever, neither did Christianity. Plus Christianity was never a religion😑🙄, it's men over the years that made it so, lemme say as a way to identify and differentiate the teachings about God by the disciples, apostles, men of God and all that... same goes for Islam. And I'm pretty sure that how come we have all these divisions here and there in both "religions".

    • I put religions in quotes because personally I don't really consider Christianity as one and it's because, the word "Christian" was formed out of the word "Christ" and it (Christian) was used to identify or call someone that was in Christ, i.e someone that followed and lived by the teachings of Jesus Christ of Nazareth😌 only son of God born of the Holy Spirit 😍 through Hail Mary, the virgin and mother of men 😁😁😁😁😂.

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  • @rajeev96 We always had a purpose. Religion only perverted that purpose. Fear of doing bad things? Let's see: Death for the rape victim, created flawed, sick, demanded to get well, kill a kid who insults a bald man, torture a faithful man only out of narcissism and megalomania, the only unforgivable sin is blasphemy, not rape or pedophilia; in fact pedophilia was an important part of the depraved society built around the church and it is still a problem, etc. I could write all day long.


  • @malicealice
    It had a huge influence in my early years but i follow the main rule if you feel your doing positive and good things in life then your good on any path... we all know what is wrong and right in our own prospective and stay true to yourself and follow your heart and keep pursuing happiness. LIFE IS MEANT TO LIVE NOT FOLLOW.


  • @mikeitup Our species has not evolved defensive mechanisms against greedy, immoral, ill-intentioned pricks!


  • @malicealice if the god is real and fair and I'm doing alright will show me his mercy if he can't then this god doesn't worth to be worshiped