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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@Rohan-Shah said in Does religion play a significant role in your life??:
Well, religions do more harm than good.
Have you ever heard about communism? It is the ideology that has had the most victims in all of human history. Many times more victims than nazi germany or the dictators of the antique (yeah, even the romans already had Konzentrationslager, just as cruel as the nazis). And what is it based on? Materialism: "There is nothing but this world, there is no higher authority that the state's leaders are responsible toward". So atheism clearly has done more harm than any of the great religions. I'm just citing data, statistics really.
Maybe it would be more true to say that humans do more harm than good. Because humans harm each other in the name of all kinds of things, may they be religion, science, reason or even music :grimacing:
Most religions have illogical exaplanation of the world
True. So does atheism btw.... I'll make a topic about it this week :joy:
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@MaliceAlice no before religious things 1st thing is know as humanity and human being.
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I think it plays a role but at the end of the day it’s just another interesting thing about people. I’m personally atheist but it’s not like my entire world revolves around that -
@MaliceAlice hey follow back
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Even as a christian I must say your life should not revolve around religion or liturgy or things like that (unless you're a nun or something). But it should revolve around God, meaning that true (christian) religion is a RELATIONSHIP with this someone, who's always with you and really cares for you, like noone else. And you treat Him like He's really there, which He is. That is christian faith at its core.
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religious whyple are fat
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Yes! It does play a significant role in our lives. We are what we are now cause of our belief.
Many people deny it cause they are not self aware or conscious as the teaching of our religion imbibes with in us in one form or the other! -
It does in mine since I converted
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@MaliceAlice I listened to the band R.E.M. once, and ever since then I've been Losing My Religion. But on a brighter note I've got my Orange Crush
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@SepticeyeSam said in Does religion play a significant role in your life??:
It does in mine since I converted
what faith did you convert to and why?
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@DEAD_ said in Does religion play a significant role in your life??:
Does religion matter to you?
As a civilisational and cultural bond, yes. On a personal level, no.
Do you believe in a supernatural entity?
I dont believe, but neither do I disbelieve
How do you view religion then? You once said you don't like how the abramic religions think about what religion is... what does that mean to you? Should I make a topic about this? I should make a topic about this... but I'll wait for your reply first....
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@DEAD_ said in Does religion play a significant role in your life??:
@pe7erpark3r said in Does religion play a significant role in your life??:
@DEAD_ said in Does religion play a significant role in your life??:
Does religion matter to you?
As a civilisational and cultural bond, yes. On a personal level, no.
Do you believe in a supernatural entity?
I dont believe, but neither do I disbelieve
How do you view religion then?
Traditions and common beliefs which has lead to the survival of my ancient civilisation, nothing more than that.
You once said you don't like how the abramic religions think about what religion is... what does that mean to you? Should I make a topic about this? I should make a topic about this... but I'll wait for your reply first....
I had given a perspective on the idea of the Indian civilisation here (which you might know as 'hinduism'). You see, for us, religion isn't limited to an all powerful being and those mumbo jumbos, its the story and history of my civilisation. I Dont view religion as means of salvation, but as the identity of my civilisation. For salvation, my karma(duties) is what I need to fulfil.
very interesting... lets talk about those missconceptions :smiling_face:
something in what you say confuses me. If traditions and believes are nothing more than the force that made your ancient civilisation survive, then how come you need to fulfill your karma duties? ... is my interpretation correct that what you see as "nothing more" are the stories about god's like vishnu and whatnot, while that which you think is more than just what made your civilisation survive is karma, in which you see something real, something with real life effects. Is that true?
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@MaliceAlice yes! أشهد أن لا إله إلا الله وأشهد أن محمدا رسول الله
Allahu Akbar! -
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@MaliceAlice Hey Alice! Perhaps not religion itself, as a set of rules or dogmas, as this only trains people. But when religious principles deal with the improvement of the individual so that he becomes a better person, with more empathy and sensitivity to the suffering of the other and still has confidence in a life after physical death, with compensations and consequences of his moral choices. In this sense for me the religious principles of the doctrine that I follow are important to my choices and attitudes and assists in my personal improvement.
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