Welcome Guest ( Log In | Register )

Outline · [ Standard ] · Linear+

Philosophy Do Human Need Religion?, some people say they can live without it

views
     
ray123
post Oct 18 2010, 02:30 AM

Senior Citizen
*******
Senior Member
2,509 posts

Joined: Jan 2003
Not needing a religion isn't the same as not needing a God. But that's a different issue.

You can't just look at one side and say "religion is a must because it gives guidance".

There are religious people who can be incredibly evil and twisted. How often have we heard a murderer claiming "the Lord told me to do it" or "my religion commands me to wage war"? That doesn't mean all religious people are bad though.

On the other hand there are also atheist philanthropists like Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, Robert Wilson. Heck, even Katherine Hepburn was an atheist. And of course there are criminals and evil men who are atheists.

But to say religion is necessary as a moral compass is wrong.

As one of my favorite comedian Bill Maher says:

QUOTE
"I'm not an atheist. There's a really big difference between an atheist and someone who just doesn't believe in religion. Religion to me is a bureaucracy between man and God that I don't need. But I'm not an atheist, no. I believe there's some force. If you want to call it God... I don't believe God is a single parent who writes books. I think that the people who think God wrote a book called The Bible are just childish. Religion is so childish. What they're fighting about in the Middle East, it's so childish. These myths, these silly little stories that they believe in fundamentally, that they take over this little space in Jerusalem where one guy flew up to heaven, no, no, this guy performed a sacrifice here a thousand million years ago. It's like, "Who cares? What does that have to do with spirituality, where you're really trying to get, as a human being and as a soul moving in the universe?" But I do believe in a God, yes."
ray123
post Oct 18 2010, 10:27 AM

Senior Citizen
*******
Senior Member
2,509 posts

Joined: Jan 2003
QUOTE(setanselatan @ Oct 18 2010, 03:43 AM)
Science says we are evolution from a stardust...
Science says that we came from monkeys...
Why the dust on the ground still a dust after thousands of years...
And why monkey still a monkey after thousands of years...
*
According to some religions and traditions, Man was created from clay. So take your pick from stardust or mud.

I personally find it incredibly arrogant for humans to believe we are specially created and placed into existence in this huge universe of a billion billion stars.

Someone asked about monkeys and evolution in RWI's All About Religion v2 thread and I had replied in a lengthy post:

» Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... «


This post has been edited by ray123: Oct 18 2010, 10:31 AM

 

Change to:
| Lo-Fi Version
0.0368sec    0.46    6 queries    GZIP Disabled
Time is now: 30th November 2025 - 03:39 PM