Is Religion our Doom ... or Salvation ?

It now appears to many ( religious and otherwise ) that the end may in fact be ' nigh ' .

Religious see prophesies coming true, or at least an intolerable amount of Evil.

Non religious see ever - decreasing resources , chemical and biological polution ,
and perhaps genocidal maniacs jockeying themselves to come out on top - or, at least survive in some capacity.

I am not religious, and - in these ( end ? ) times of great stress and distress I myself look back with sadness and even digust at religion and what ( I see ) it has done to us.

I see children dead who would have been saved at any cost - if they weren 't going to a better place, that is. Actually I see everybody who dies at all these days as potentially dying young... possibly for this reason.

I see unbelievable amounts of time wasted because ' we'll get it right in the next life ' . This may well be the greatest ' drag ' in all of humanity. The great life - destroying cop out.

I honestly hope that we can all see something great at the end of our lives... but, I fear that the last thing we'll say is something like , ' too bad we didn't work on the REAL things more...' .

' Too bad we are dying because we focused on fantasy instead of ... '

I am afraid that in my old age, I now view the religious as a bunch of poisonous killers - even though I know they are clueless and therefore innocent.

Go here www.abovetopsecret.com... for an excellent answer to the question.

reply to post by Jim Scott


Looked at your link, thank you.
See you on judgment day .
Where does this word judge , adjudicate , judgement come from ?

reply to post by Skelkie3


Your connection with God, and your connection to yourself is Salvation.

reply to post by Skelkie3


Judgment day isnt coming just the end of the world but i dont see that happening for another thousands of years.