Soul Searching

Does anyone else see the damage religion has done to the world?
I know, I know, we need religion but does it have to be based on sin, guilt, ritual and fear? Those four things are going to destroy us if we don't wake up soon, very, very soon.

How can people believe that a child is born with original sin and has to be, in one form or another, forgiven for that sin? What makes you feel so guilty if you look at another man and find him attractive without youhusband knowing it? Will it take the guilt away if you say enough hail Mary's and light enough candles? Where will you go after you die if you don't follow all the rules?

Now if that isn't a big, heaping plateful of sin, guilt, ritual, and fear I don't know what is. So now, tell me how you can dump this stuff on your kids?
Don't you think the kids have enough of a struggle just to stay sane in this crazy world?

It just seems so sad to me to see so many people living in fear and guilt. The worst thing is, they suffer for no real reason. Their beliefs, are nothing more than beliefs based on no proveable facts. They all know this fact but they go through the motions just in case. In case of what is the question I'm asking.

Wars have been fought since the beginning of time in the name of religion whether anyone calls it that or not. I dare you to name any war that did not start over a difference in beliefs based on religion. You can't do it.

Every religion tells their flock that their's is the only real religion. Now if that isn't teaching "my dog's bigger than your dog" you"ve lost a good deal of the stuffing out of your comforter. That's the first step toward teaching intolerence. The religions all say "stick to what I teach because the others are wrong" and pretend to be tolerent of the others but it's okay to put them down when they question you about your religion.

Why can't there be a religion based on good old common sense? Why can't we realize that we are all different and we may not all get along together? Why can't we all stop playing "My God is greater than your God> I thought gods were a thing of the past, something people carved out of stone or wood. Now there's only one god but nobody what he looks like, where he is or even if he's real. Common sense can figure it all out if you are brave enough to try it.

It's a shame there isn't a place where people can go to be encouraged to use their common sense and maybe even celebrate the fact that we are all born with it. Nobody has to be in charge of anything, you don't have to get together once or twice a week and there is no book of rules. Just a plain old celebration of life filled with common sense.

Hi,

You are so right - Hello, I salute you! Governments are trying to fool us all.

love and light

Those of us who dont need religion to know the difference between right and wrong, honesty and deception, are living just fine with ourselves and not living in fear and curl up at every sign of trouble.

Truth is...IMO, people are alot smarter than they are led to believe they are. Its about taking the initative to control your own destiny without needing some fable or pagan bedtime story to give you that sense of direction.

Mankind has the ability to think and do for himself/herself and do that very well. But when mankind is constantly told you need this light to guide you and without it you are in the dark, and told that enough times, then mankind begins to actually believe he/she is nothing more than a bowl of flopping jellow wiggling at every little vibration of life's challlenges.




Cheers!!!!

OK,

But I do think people need something.

My own personal redeemer is Jesus Christ the LORD.

It's also mostly about where you are. Social demographics and location play a big part in the development of people. People need excuses, reason for evil, reason for good. In the end its all about taking your responsibility which is another word for 'karma'.

Religion today is just about power, so if you take the powerhouses away from religions and other institutes that are about fear mongering and war, you'll set the people free. Maybe then we can start moving ourselves to greatness, removing land borders, getting rid of the policitian-system etc.

In the end, the 'redeemer' should be planet earth.