Is Religion of God?

What If we listen to a group of people of different faiths and religions debating about something to do with their beliefs? Let us say someone who practices Judaism, someone who practices Islam, someone who practices Christianity, someone into Hinduism, plus add any of the other faiths. They each have a passionate zeal for their faith and they all believe that their faith is right, even though they believe different things. As they continue to argue there is nothing that they can do to settle their differences, short of killing each other, and as we look around us in the past and in the present world that is what they still do. Is this a supposed God's revelation to them? I think not.

Religion becomes an obstacle to understanding, so there is obviously something wrong with religion, therefore man made religions are a fundamental untruth, a means of controlling people. Most governments use religion, even though they may not like it as it sets a moral code of behavior as to what is right and what is wrong.

I think there is every possibility that there is some type of force in this universe, you can call it God if you want, but it's beyond our knowledge. I don’t think it is helpful to try to understand who or what this God is. Maybe it is a dimension we as humans have no knowledge of.

The gods of existing religions are already well documented. They do things like forgive sins and impregnate virgins. (Young Moslems are taught that if they martyr themselves they will go straight to heaven and be presented with 72 virgin brides) there seems to be a passion for virgins in religious books.

Some people say they find great comfort from religion, but I believe many don't, regardless of what they say. Christianity tells people that they are born sinners, they are muck, they are dung and they need the saving grace of Jesus to set them free, and they are constantly held in bondage to the fear of the Christian hell, Satan, and his demons. How this is comforting to a Christian I will never know. This is also a perfect example of peer group pressure.

Drug addicts will tell you that injections of Morphine or Heroin are very comforting. But that doesn't make it right. Many people become Christians to solve their problems, but the problem usually remains or manifests as some other trouble.

I believe Religion should be about Human rights and equality, not tearing each other to pieces over some dogma and pointing the finger. I speak mainly about Christianity because that is where I came from. Christians seem to think that they have the monopoly and that they can stand in moral judgment on everyone else who may not think as they do. If you believe in a supposed God then your God created all of us, with a free will to choose, and it is your God alone who will judge us on the Day of Judgment. Not some Christian moraliser.

Have you noticed how kids today, especially in the western world, want to wear their baseball caps backwards. It's almost like a measles epidemic. What useful purpose is behind it? One does it because he sees someone else do it. They think it looks cool and that’s it. It spreads from brain to brain like a virus. Christianity is a sickness like that.

Most people are inclined to believe what they are told, and there is good reason for that. They don't have the time or the resources available to seek the truth. They in turn pass it on to their children and it gets passed on down from generation to generation. It may not matter how silly the original instruction may have been, if you tell it with sufficient conviction to young and gullible children, when they grow up they will pass it on to their children.

I like writing articles on religion as I have a hunger for truth, but even if I have nothing to offer, it matters not. It still does not mean that the religious expert who says they have something to offer is also telling the truth. He is only passing on what someone else has already told him.

What is the object of faith? Faith is believing in something for which there is no evidence and it’s the main stay of all religions. Modern Christian authors say they have proof that the New Testament is the very word of God and that Jesus is God himself. If they have this proof then, is that faith? If you have proof of something then that’s fact, Therefore they don't have proof. Authors who claim to have proof that the New Testament is the very word of God should be made to prove it in a court of law, so that all people of the world can come to make an honest decision on the spiritual aspects of their life. Religious faith lacks evidence, its independence of this evidence that should be its pride and joy.

Religion offers the bereaved, comfort in a glorious reunion with loved ones in the afterlife, and those who have been wronged on this earth can anticipate a sweet revenge for their tormentors in a life to come (Christian hell) what happened to love your neighbour? Christians of course say that there faith is the only one, but any of the other faiths can be just as comforting as one that is supposed to be true providing that the believer never discovers that it's false. I mean who's coming back to tell us. Pentecostals are always talking about all of the dead that are supposedly raised up in their revivals, but are the dead men talking?

Medical science can bring comfort in the way of pain killing drugs for diseased ridden bodies. This comfort is tangible, it does work. Does your faith?

I feel it is very important that if we feel strongly and passionately about our religion then we should examine the evidence for it, for ourselves, and not rely on the information of others who may also be uninformed. If we have a belief that we are prepared to defend then we should be able to quote this evidence, or is that evidence nothing more than myth, tradition, or supposed revelation.

Jim Lee