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why can't religion reduce the rate of crimes in our society?
Religion: I believe religion is a practice that teaches ways of good conducts and we all tend to found ourselves in a religion. I'm so sure all religion talks about good that leads man to the right track, correction from evil, love for one another, peace. But we still come across killings and all sort of different crimes in our society. If the society should practice our individual religion which they tend to belong, i feel the world would be a better place for mankind

Do you not know the heart of man is full of greed. The poor beg but not enough, many turned to scammers. Some rich people are full of greed, and do not think of second alternative than to betray their working partner. Although what is wrong is wrong, but the world is not balance. Religion help to an extent, because if not religion, people will be worse than this. The world is pleasurable for people that have enough to enjoy, and many saying 'the spirit is willing, but the flesh is week'.

Because after commiting crimes they go to mass, go to confession and are forgiven after praying 3 Hail Marys.

This applies to believers; I don't think religion has any influence on non-believers.

Thank you. You are very correct

This is true but also because most religions believes in the concept of forgiveness and I don't think that religion should be the main deterrent for increase in crime rates, I would say that the best way is to improve societal conditions like housing, food, water, hygiene, education and jobs because most petty cri.inals are just desperate people that can't find any way to make money but to do crime.

Religion can not reduce the rate crimes in the society because many people don't practise what the religion teaches and the reason behind this are of two things.
1) An individual understanding about what the truth definition of love and I can say the crime increase was due to political greed and errors (which make empty promises to some people and the people later put law into their hands by committing crime to gain the attention of the government). Just like the saying "a hungry man is an angry man".
2) Some religions leader preached hatred and what will mislead their followers than love.
If there's love mr A will hardly hurt or kill mr B because of money or position and what will reduce crime is individual maturity and understanding about making the world a better place and spreading love through various standards.

But the society is not equal, not giving opportunities equally, some people take the advantage on everything with the help of money they have while some people failed to reach even though they have skills that is where the issue comes. And people who do crimes also has their own reasons and it can be good from their own perspectives.

Crime happens in all communities. It happens in rich, middle-class and poor neighborhoods, suburban and rural communities. Religion is a tool to control people and not a means of addressing the social problems we face. Any religion that claims to have the power to prevent suicide, murder, molestation, rape or discrimination of any kind is false. We should look elsewhere for a solution to the problems the community is facing.

Good morals and individual uprightness do not emanate from religion, it's an individual's decision to do what's right, that's the more reason why you can find an atheist with proper morals and one who's religious causing all sorts of mayhem in the community. Imo, one's upbringing and close community, not religion is responsible to a large percent in how that person behaves, just as it's said "if you live amongst thieves, there's a high chance you'll steal".

Having said that, I think quite a lot of emphasis is placed on religion, and people expect religion to produce an 'utopian' society which isn't supposed to be so, much of the problems today is caused by the corrupt government and their inability to provide sufficiently for their citizens, which most times leads them to commit some of the vices in the OP.

Religion is a relic that was useful at the time it was created (thousands of years ago) for trying to give reason to much that was unknown in the world and acting as a basic legal framework for people at the time. However in the current world, where science has opened up our eyes to so much information, it feels a bit like a bad hangover that needs to go away. I feel like religion, either through different interpretations of the same text or different religions altogether, is currently the cause of so much misery in the world. If you resign yourself to fate or it "being God's will" then you are effectively using a lazy cop-out. If God does exist, why does he allow children to get bone cancer? Why does he allow babies in Africa to catch debilitating diseases that ruin their lives? You have always got to keep an open mind in life, but if he does exist, then maybe he is a cruel being that does not deserve to be worshiped. Man is perfectly capable of judging man, based on how societal law evolves and how the morality of the majority changes over time.

It comes to the idea that if the person is really good, he would follow what the religion teaches him. But if a man has a deceitful heart, there's no religion that will make him meek.
And there's already a division in religions because of their beliefs, the other say that the other is false and they're the only one who's right but can't prove themselves to be right.

Those are some really interesting religions you both have there.

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I am not a religious person but just an opinion, I feel like(no matter what the religion is) the reason is sloth, gluttony, lust greed, envy, pride and wrath. with or without religion as long as there are these things crime will always be present.

Because its not about your religion or if you're a religious person.

Regardless of what beliefs you're following, its more on what kind of person you are.

Many people are not religious but their heart is pure.

Same goes for people often go to church but they're heartless inside and likely to do a bad deed.

According to nonnewsledger.com, Top 10 Reasons for Crime (http://www.netnewsledger.com/2019/10/08/top-10-reasons-for-crime/) are:

• Poverty. This is perhaps one of the most concrete reasons why people commit crimes.
• Peer Pressure. This is a new form of concern in the modern world.
• Drugs.
• Politics.
• Religion.
• Family Conditions.
• The Society.
• Unemployment.
• Deprivation.
• Unfair judicial system.

So, as we see, religion can help to reduce crime rates in a particular community, it is also one of the world's top causes of crime. Religious fervour can incite feelings of aggression towards those that do not share their religious beliefs.

Because beliefs alone can't change a person innate personality. There will always be a person, no matter what the religion is will do something you actually be surprised to see. There are even cases of priest being a pedophile, Pastor who kills someone, Chapel Server who steals and many more.

There are many hypocrites in every religion, who looks like someone very religious in church hours but different person in different days.

So yeah, religion has is not significant to reduction of crime rates in the system.

Religion has been a thing of controversy and I'll emphasise on Christianity as a religion because, that's the one I know much about and I am a Christian myself. One issue with religion is how one church views other churches and have different doctrims in honouring just one God. I wonder if churches are really helping, with the amount of churches in our world today and the resources available to them, the crime rate in our world would have been reduced to the nearest minimum. Sadly, this isn't the case as the crime rate increases by the day. Is it that, people aren't really attending these churches? What is the issue here or are the churches not passing on the proper message or its a thing of the congregation not practicing what is been thought.

Your words are completely correct. Religion should make our life a better place to live in, but what happens is the opposite most of the time. I think the reason is the difference in the interpretation of religion. Each person in his own way, every person believes himself is right and the rest of people are wrong, even those who belong To one religion, you find between them a difference of views, conflicts and perhaps hatred. This happens in all the major religions, including Christianity, Judaism and Islam.
The stagnation in thinking and the lack of acceptance of the other opinion is the biggest problem of religion, which feeds these tendencies with more violence and hatred.

What's better about dying? Christians know that there is an afterlife in Heaven or Hell. They know it lasts forever. So, any idea about focusing on religion for this life, is really missing the main focus.

As far as opinions about religion go, many opinions ignore God altogether. And that is what trouble is all about... ignoring God and what He says.

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In my country religion is declining very fast, nobody is going to Church anymore. Kids these days don't even know the meaning behind the religious holidays. The only time when the church is in the newspaper it is because of some scandals. People just don't believe in God anymore. Which doesn't need to be a bad thing. If we look at the past we see that almost everybody was religious back in the day. It was very common to leave a lot of money to the church so you could go to heaven. But did this help to reduce crime rates? I don't think so, crime was pretty common in the past as it is today.

Region is like norms and culture of people from different perspective of life living, but you are directing your comments or emphasising in one directions which is Catholic church, let their be no condemnation and no procrastination, different churches have their method of pleading God from dirt life living, it's obvious that region can eradicate the level of crimes and it can only occur if it's well handled in the environment, what is the problem is that the way people living in A zone method of region and people who is residing in B zone method of life,  can not be the same, but bringing the A-B zone together it's obvious that they will be different adoption of character which might lead to different commitment of crimes from different angle.

Going to church is not necessary for anyone in religions. I am catholic but I barely go to churches anymore, but I believe in GOD and trusts Jesus.

Less families in churches doesn't mean that their kids are not being taught who God was and who Jesus was.

Although, maybe some are now losing confidence to their beliefs because of the situation.

Don't you know that among the definitions of religion is this: "something one believes in and follows devotedly; a point or matter of ethics or conscience: to make a religion of fighting prejudice?" - https://www.dictionary.com/browse/religion.

This means that your whole life is a religious one, because you have faith that you won't (hopefully) die in the next minute or two. But you really don't know. Every now and again and asteroid/meteorite hits the earth. But nobody knows when or where. "The odds," you say. Lol. Ever heard of a car accident, or many other things?

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Religion learns the complete code of life. It briefs the system & conduct of society. It promotes political behavior and the financial system. It makes a society civilized. It builds the character of people and gives us success in life. It gives a peaceful spiritual system. It develops moral values. It engraves your personality into gold & diamond. but people do not follow religious rules and values.

Religion and it different beliefs have made the nations,societies and countries broken apart.The supremacy of one religion over the other is becoming problemsome in the society to the extend that the religions are fighting each other everyday and putting troubles in the mind of the people.

Religion and it divers beliefs has caused so many damage on the lifes of human being,Christians and Muslims fighting each other.To me religion is just bringing confusion in the society.

I believe that religion is a guide to being a better person, leaving better life. Sadly, many of our developing societies today are ruled by leaders that have shape-shift religion into either tools that they use to control the masses or an opium that is used to get the masses so high and addicted to limited and myopic sense of humor.

this is the best opinion in my opinion. because in principle all religions teach goodness and peace. but lust is not able to be controlled by the adherents of that religion, to pollute the sacred values taught by religion.

it could be that even without church, God will not be lost in us.
maybe you can give some examples of people losing their faith in god because of the situation

Religion can help all of this why ?
The ways of the world are more of negative deeds than positive deeds.
The wicked and bad gets away with whatever they want, doing, this is why I don't bsee religion doing enough around lately.

The religious man needs to abide by the laws and commandments of the holy book, stay away from certain things,and the society is one of this, staying away from this shows and guides one on the path to every religious man/woman.

The world is certainly full of good, bad and ugly phenomenal. Various religion and traditionalist are a means or guide to harnessing these phenomenal.

Religion simply puts, the way of life of a person or groups of persons. So, we could say, a life of crime is a religion for criminals and its elements in the society. That's just how it is and as such, having someone to act or behave outside his or her religion is some difficult task to archive.
So, its really just up to a person as, the context circulates around freewill which could pose a lot of trouble becuase, not many individuals would want to go through the things they go through in the society and still choose a pius living. It's rare but, morally supporting religion can only try whole hoping for the best.

I certainly agrees to this statement. It's the same old cycle that most people would do, giving confessions and pray so that all of their sins will be forgiven. This is how the world turned out to be, the reality that we have face. It's just that religion won't stop the evil inside of them because they are swallowed by the darkness that causes them to do such crimes. We all started in being innocent and some started in being religious but nowadays instead of people who are believer influencing non-believers, the non-believers instead influences the believer to become a non-believer. It affected the society and our economy.

The key is their will, if they don't want to, they will never listen but if you can persuade them, they will realize. All of us are good people but it's just sad that some people lets their evil self takes control of everything and started to fall down in an empty hole that could lead them nowhere.

Although not all believers influences by non-believers to become one of them, some holds a strong faith that makes me idolize them. They work so hard to make other people realize their mistakes and could even influences non-believers to believe in God again and helps those believers but does not have a strong faith to be awaken again and make them realize once more.

Exactly,most person's do not believe in either being a Christian or Muslims,they just believe in living a moral life.They don't believe in going to church or mosque,they just live a life that is very simple.They are Pagans,they neither worship the devil nor worship God,neither believe in heaven not hell.They believe religion is brought to devide the unity of the people.
Therefore let every one live according to what suits him or her,being a pagan,a traditionalist,a Christian or a Muslim do not really matter,what matters is living a peaceful life that does not affects or troubles the existence of another person.

People talk about religion but selfish.
Folk's talk about religion but lack compassion.
People talk about religion but will be the first to betray you.
The society getting worst though, this is my thoughts about it, people talk about religion but fear death moti than they fear God.
People want a sweet and beautiful lifestyle but don't want to work towards it.

Yes, you are right all religions talk about good and lead man to the right track. It's up to the man's own discretion whether he chooses the right path or the bad one. We can't believe any religion that its followers have chosen a bad path or done something bad.
Also, society play's an important role in this regard. Lesser opportunities, racism, and the differences of thoughts of the elite class, middle class, and lower-middle-class, as well as the people beyond the level of the lower middle class, is also important key factor. We can reduce the crime rates by providing equal opportunities and justice to people of all classes.

I live in a Christian Country where people believe in God, goes to church ang always pray but crime rate is still high. Why? I think because of the extensive poverty that some people resort to robbery and killings plus  the alcohol and drug related crimes. I have seen the priest and pastors doing their duties and responsibilities teaching  the Gospel, visiting the prison and doing bible studies and all other missionary works but still humans have freewill and judgement. While I think religion can help creating ethical framework and a regulator for values in a day to day life but it is still enough to fight or reduce crimes and violence.

It isn't right to fully base the solution to society's problem on religion. Most of them are not caused by religion. We can agree that all religion preaches good and love, but not everyone believes in religion or religious enough.
Though there are good people in the society, humans are generally selfish and greedy, and in some way tend to infect another who is victim of their evil. Religions don't teach the same thing. Most problems of the society is due to uniformity in belief. I think the world be a better place if religion and other differences are kept aside in human relationships.

Religion just contend for supremacy. There is no religion without Regional sentiments. No religion without dogma. No religion without manipulators. No religion without corruption controllers at the top.
Religion has divided humanity extremely.
Religion is not righteousness.
Yet, man has overlooked the greatest religion called humanity in the quest to achieve adulterated religions.

Exactly,Religion and as stood as a means of sperating people who would have being of great help to each other,and the nation as well.There are several religious practices in the world,some of which are bad,while some are good.
Some persons have decided to stay without believing in anything called religion.
Whether good or bad,I have seen religion as a means of making people not to see things from thesame angle or perspectives,rather it puts confusion in the mind of people.

Religion can also be a good way to protect knowledge only if the people who're managing the books of those religious books are good and want the good of others.
Otherwise, they can misinterpret the lines written inside the books and make the sheep follow what servers them.
The second reason is what I think is going on.

The introduction of a good and evil as to persons based on the religion they choose has brought some major pain to our world. Don't get me wrong, religion is actually a good thing because, it tries to input good morals in humans to watch out on there actions but then, the context of making it based on either you worship as they do is where it all goes sideways. Humanity should be put at right and at first before anything, we ought to acknowledge the human person before looking out for a way of worship if we should at all.

Religion as a practice just as you have said does not completely eradicate self and one's nature/attributes. The practice of true religion, just helps to put these attributes under a check. Unfortunately, many do not practice true religion and their true nature that has been set either genetically or environmentally induced, has not been put under check and they only just hide under the the cover of being religious.

What can transform bad to good is environment because environment changes the lives of creator which science called adaptation, combined with plants and animals way of living and this region just like what we learn from old living

I'm an atheist, I despise religion and I'm generally against all of them. However, I don't get why people need religion in order to behave. It's pure logic that you shouldn't steal, commit murder and so on, why do you need religion to tell you otherwise?

On top of that, the general idea is that good actions will get you to so-called heaven, and people actually abide to that.

Those at the highest levels of Religion performs the worst of it all, although all sins are equally weighed by the Bible.
Lately I do not put or give I'm too Religion,they simply the worst and not doing too well,you would see preachers boasting about wealth and fame, rather than preaching the word that was committed to themselves.
This generation is trash you know.

True, today when a person walks down the street and sees a church, just pay 10 minutes of attention and they will see very sad things, believers give money to the church, and church priests take the money and buy luxury clothes, cars. luxury and luxury homes. we have reached such a low and disgusting level to see rankings of the richest priests in the world. How the hell does a priest who doesn't work, doesn't have any business get rich? they get rich thanks to the money people donate to the church.

they take hard-earned money from the poor

You are right , but it ought not to be so, is as if the religion we use to know is different from the one we have now. Religion  is supposed to make a change but people are getting corrupt more.

There are several religious groups in the world today,which different people of different diversities believe in. It is accepted and known that there is freedom of worship,but the way some religions are castigating the other is really not encouraging.
Some humans think and believe that some of the religions shouldn't have existed,forgeting about that part they entitles every human being to worship whoever or which ever thing he or she deems it fit to worship.
If religious sentiment can be remove from our mind,the society will definitely be a better place to live.

You know that isn't always the case, right? Who often time are the most charitable? Religious people. And when many religious organizations receive charitable donations, you don't think a lot of it might go towards helping people, with a few cases of abuse? You can make a large business out of religion, see scientology (which is more a cult designed as a belief system oppose to a religion). That doesn't mean it's immoral to accept money as a religious figure or organization.

In my opinion, adherents of a devout religion will not commit evil. Because every religion in this world does not teach evil, even religion educates us to do good according to their respective religions. Evil occurs because someone does not achieve what he wants, that is:
 - Popularity
 - Justice
 - Position
 - Perspective
The proof is that in our country there are many adherents of religions who live in harmony side by side and are full of tolerance.

There's thousands of religions in the world and every religion claims that it's the true and best choice for you. However most of us didn't choose that religions we all became religious once you born in a religious family your parents will teach you the rules of it and you don't really have a choice. I don't know alot aboit other religions but in my case i know There's alot of good points and rules that makes our life better and teaches us peace and love. But at the same time There's some dark sides of it. One lf them is in my religion it doesn't matter how good you're, working honest person as much as you should believe in that religion. Because once this rule of not believing on it that this religion is the correct one and all others are wrong you want enter heaven. Thisone rules makes you a bit questioning.
Without talking of the history of each religion because most of thel started and became powerful with wars to spread their claiming message. And they by themselves committed many crimes.

There is one thing we ought to understand here when it comes to religion and evil. One core characteristics of a Christian is forgiveness. The holy book teaches that you turn  the other chick when slapped on the other. A lot of persons would never do that.
When you look at the Jihades, they believe in persecution of unbelievers in their religion yet, you would be told that, Muslim is a religion of peace and of course it is. If you look at the 5 pillars of Muslim, there is no violence about it. Yet, these persons perpetuate these evil against there neighbours. He Christian did there's some century ago and called themselves Christian crusaders.

In essence, its subject to interpretation and as such, through religion, good or evil can be perpetuated. Depending on who is preaching and the hearts that is receiving.

I think the part I've highlighted in red may be significant.
Many people are born into a religion, they don't actively choose that religion, it just happens to them.
Whereas people who are born into a non-religious family, who choose a religion later, are actively selecting that religion.
Perhaps people in the second scenario are more likely to try to follow the teachings of that religion?

I want to add a little more to your statement.  
I am not going to compare Christianity or the Muslim religion. All religions should be respected.
And you know, no religion is perfect. Errors in religion occur only when we become fanatical, and bigotry leads us to the worst.

A few days ago, I saw a twitter hashtag about "Babri Mosque" that some Hindus had gone to the Mosque and vandalized. their claim was that Mosque was their temple a long long time ago. Actually, such behavior is never supported by Hinduism. Not only Hinduism but also not by any religion.
Again I've seen the news that some fake Muslims had gone to the temples of Hindus and vandalized them. why fake? cause such behavior is never supported by Islam.

The motto of every religion is to establish peace. And the incident seen in the news does not mean worship of religion but crime by worshiping religion. Religion should be practiced from the heart by avoiding bigotry.

But the unfortunate thing is that besides bigotry, some people in our society have been committing crimes using religion, you know.
After committing any crime, they survive on the pretext of religion.

And priests of the mosque, churches & temples are most involved in this work, on whom we rely in devotion. they are just playing with people's faith.
Hopefully one day these problems will be removed and our society will be able to practice pure religion.

Actually, the main basis of religion is faith. Where there is no faith, there is no religious consciousness. Whether it is through the family to enter into religious education or even from an atheist family if one comes on his/her own initiative he has to keep faith in religion.

The person who is enlightened in the light of religion from an atheist family basically tries hard to know the issues of religion, to study them. Because those of us who come from religious backgrounds know almost everything. But those who follow the path of religion on their own initiative have a lot of unknown things which they intend to know more about.

I was talking more about people who nominally belong to a religion because they are born into it, but have no real faith and no inclination to follow or even to learn the rules. Apparently 53% of the UK population is Christian, but churches are almost deserted. The number of people who would say they belong to a religion - at least in this country - is far greater than the number who actually follow it.

All the points you make is good and is reasonable enough to understand, but am against the point that States no regions with manipulation, so that point will be figured out for argument because some regions they practice it subsequently and no chance for it manipulation and especially the native ways of doctrine that is not reversible and can not be manipulate for something else without the awareness of their gods. So region remain constant no touched and amend the region with manipulation

Religion practitioners are not exempt from doing awful things to others, as seen time and time again. So even full-on devotion to religion would not suddenly and magically lower crime rates. That's because in the real world we can compartmentalize, separating personal beliefs from other agendas. Religion as a set of moral guidelines is a fine concept, but religion itself did not invent those moral concepts, it merely embraced them as an addition to its beliefs (there are distinct separation between religion in terms of spirituality and in terms of morality), so the question is, why even have religion for morality if those concepts can come outside of religion. I do not need someone frightening me into being a moral person by invoking eternal damnation if not done in such and such manner. If I am not, as a person, able to come to grips with my societies morals, then my moral compass is off to begin with, and someone beating me with a stick over the head (religion) to abide by those moral standards will ultimately yield to nothing (as shown by many religious people doing amoral things).

There's the other side to this, as well. I'd argue that it's impossible for a religious person to commit a truly selfless act, because their expectation of being rewarded for doing good things (going to heaven) is inseparable from any other motivations they may have had in performing the act.

Someone loses their pet cat and offers a $1,000 reward. They live 30 miles away. You find the cat.
If you return the cat, how can you say for certain that the reward played no part in your decision?

If you act in accordance with religious tenets, then this says zero about whether you acted ethically.

Religion has been in our society right from time even in the days of our forefathers,because they had a belief and something they worshipped whether good or bad,and they lived together without problem,therefore in today's generation,religion must be encouraged because it is that thing we belief that tends to protect us or be our God who answers us when we pray to him.

But we must try to discourage religious intolerance because it is what brings conflicts and crises in our society.

Religion is one of the major problems facing us in the world today in so many countries, we claim to be holier than thou, some people even even think or feels they are holier than our Lord Jesus Christ himself with the way they live their lives, for example in Pentecostal churches, you'll see different church members arguing on who is serving God more or best,you'll see them comparing the pastors preaching,you'll even see them trying to discriminate or find faults in the pastors preaching. This is what religion has caused, so people misunderstood the Bible and we'll be living a terrible life in the name of "living holy"
God should help us 🙏
Religion is causing damages to the world of today.

The world is dying and everything in it is gradually loosing value. The lifespan of man reduces everyday. Materialism now rules the world. The rich are celebrated regardless of how their wealth was made.

I have read some Holy Books of different religion and I have observed that most religious people don't practice what is written.
No religion encourage materialism. Not one supported oppression and killings. Men's choice to do evil is not the product of any religion.

The teachings of Jesus and Buddha can bring peace an equality to mankind.

Religion is used to weaken the aggressive mindset of human being in the society. According to Cuba, religion is opium which makes man to forget his actions which he would taken.

Religion can't reduced crime in the society because the poverty level in the world is higher than the rich and also the unequal level also causes crime. The rich people are oppressing the poor and that makes class struggle. So at that stage, the poor people will be forced to commit crime to survive because the religion did not provide the necessary needs for them.

The Bible says the judgment of God will start from the church because there is nothing you can't find in the church, weakness, backbiting, politics, killing, stealing and so on even the bad ones has over shadow the good ones.

The religion which is the church is now the fundamentals of corruptions so how will they change the society

These days people tend to attach themselves to a particular religion to hide their real color. Otherwise which religion in the world supports killings and destruction of properties? So when some persons tend to cause evil to their fellow man they use religion as a shade to backup their evil works and act. It's just unfortunate religion is losing its place in society due to how it has been used by many to perpetrate evil.

Religion exists to regulate life in the entire universe so that it runs in balance. Humans without being equipped with religion or faith and only using their reason and lust to live life then they will have no limits to know what is good and what is bad. Because humans are never satisfied with what they already have, religion is needed to control human desires so as not to cause damage.

We can't really do without religion,and at the same religion has cause some damages to us in some aspects,because it looks like the Muslims are always against the christians most atimes just because they do not share thesame religious believe.War and conflicts tries to surface when they have this kind of believe,and it leads to religious intolerance.
And when one religion could not accomodate another in a particular country,the end point is war.

I believe all religion teaches peace and unity, love for one another. If everyone truly believe, respect and follow the teachings of his/her own religion everything in the world will be going smoothly. But all this happens because of the bad eggs that can be found in all these religions. No religion has 100% follower who believe and follow all the teachings of its religion hence the destruction, war and lack of unity. I believe if all religion can have at least 90-95% good followers and follow the teachings, then the world will be at peace as the good people will supersede the bad ones.

    People now is hard to please them to change even their self they can't tolerate and that's people now who live in this generation. More people forgot their religion their spiritual has blinded by the advantage things like technology, Social Media and many more to influence . That's why people now has change by the time on what they want and , because of debt in life or living vulnerable and human is precious that easily to temptation but hoping that their some people still had a good righteous heart to continue doing God's will.

I feel religion can't reduce (nor put an end) to crime in our society, in fact, Christianity as a religion does not preach that there won't be crime or evil, the scripture (Bible) mentioned in 2 Timothy 3:1-2 that
"1 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,", if we read the chapter further, the scripture (Bible) stated those behaviors that will be exhibited by people in the end time, this mean there would be crime, evil and even suffering in the world and there's nothing we can do about it. Yeah, it sounded appriopriate to say that religion should be able to cub evil, but it's so sad that the opposite is what we experience, and truly, nothing could be done about that, we are in the end time!

Many people belong to different religion and have different beliefs. One thing is common that all these religion’s teaches, to love one another, peace, unity, harmony etc. Every religion teaches positivity but the negativity comes in from the negative thoughts of man, quest for power and greed, this spoilt everything. You always find one bad beans in a group of beans that will affect the rest negatively. But nevertheless, the good ones will always overcome the bad ones if they’re determined for it.

Exactly,discrimination is one of the reasons why religious intolerance is active in the world. It is in the constitution,that human rights like freedom of worship should not be violated,that is to say that man as well as human being have the right to worship what ever they tend to worship,so that shouldn't cause any chaos in the society,but unfortunately,human being cannot love one another nomatter what,that is why there will always be issues and problems among humans.

There's are so many people who practice different religion in the world today. Although there are 6 great religion in the world. We have Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Buddaism and Hindaism.  All these religion have the same purpose, they teach about the same love, rights of a believer. But due to the mindset Man has, he as Backslide, and want power and materialistic things of the world. These stuffs has made him ready to do anything just to acquire what he really desires. Normally, it's a big task to keep Each rules and regulations that govern the people of these different religion. The religious beliefs are based on what you believe, not what you see,  It's within you.

i have had a few friends tell me that Bitcoin and other Cryptos are Haram.
its a perplexing to see such comments in modern times like today.

Yes Of course Religion metter for society or for a man. But there is devil. Who always try to throw you on wrong side. The man can only go on right way by the blessings of God.

Religion has taught what can be done and what is forbidden. and when people obey religious rules. then I also believe this world will be better. and the most appropriate question regarding this is Why do people not want to obey the religion they profess?
so it's not a question of why religion can't reduce crime rates. but this is a question of why people do not want to obey their religion.

and the answer is very simple, that is because everyone has a desire in him. This desire has both good and bad.
bad desires such as greed, envy, jealousy, pride and wanting to be the most superior (ria).

 religion has taught to control these bad desires and managed to become good. such as greed can be made into the path of goodness if he is greedy looking for treasure but he still does not harm others and often helps people who need help.

and sometimes we can not directly blame the people who do evil. because there must be a reason why he could be evil. maybe he had been hurt by people so that his heart went blind.
so start improving yourself and never hurt others because we don't know the people we hurt can turn into criminals because they've been hurt.
let's hold fast to a religion that definitely teaches goodness.

For first time what is religion? That is first thing we should ask ourselves, religion is a doctrine of a particular group or particular set of people stay or living in one territory, religion make people to behave differently and mostly changes our mindset, that is why when making reference with religion it is very difficult to differentiate the impact of religion to the societies, i can agree with you by the emphasis of man can be right by the blessings of God, which way of God is also some people religion, kind of life

It's because there are other religions, like humanism - which is selfishness and greed - which are overcoming the good religions to some extent.

The main reason why good religion seems to fail, is that people are looking for it's success in the wrong way, rather than the main reason why religion exists in the first place. Religion isn't here to make people and life good... at least not as its primary function. Religion's primary function is to teach people the only way to find eternal life... Jesus Christ, and Him crucified for our sins.

Like as nobody can create and bring himself to life, so nobody can raise himself from death.

Like as Jesus gives everybody their first life, even so He is the only one who can give them their next life.

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Pretense is the order of the day, in religion of nowadays,we look as if, we serve God but inwardly we don't,we are so much confirm by the WORLD and not the WORD. Religion is supposed to change the heart of men,make us love one another but reverse is the case.
Let's take a look at Christianity,we have different denomination,such as Deeper life, Apostolic church,White garment churches, Living Faith,Winner chapel e.t.c but just because our doctrine is different from each other,we tends to discriminate against ourselves, forgetting the fact that the serve one God.

Religion today has lost its content and value mostly because of the inability of many religious leaders to bring to the light of truth many wrongs that are going on in the society today.

Unlike when we use to have religious leaders that can stand up publicly and condemn many unjust acts irrespective of the echelon of the perpetrator, but today religion is now a means of Enterprise, and everything is progressively failing.

Religion can not reduce the rate of crime in the society. It is a choice whether to be  religious or not. Although many religion had been talking about peace, unity and love for one another, still yet the urge to commit crimes in available in our mindsets. Religion does not stop us from engaging in our daily activities or does it compel us to do what we don't want to do.

This is choice, it is beneath us whether we want to be guided by what our religion says or we are gonna follow our mind. Even with the harsh policies and law enforcements guiding each and every steps we take, people contineously indulge in crime. Religion has no say here.

Life is short. If we live to be 100, we are blessed with long life. Life in the hereafter will be forever. And that is the main goal of true religion... helping people find Jesus salvation, so they find their goal of living in Heaven forever.

Religion that is used with a focus of making earthly life better, has lost its #1 goal. Betterment of the earthly life is for bringing people to the knowledge of salvation. Without that, betterment usually doesn't last for more than 100 years.

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Yes, two religious people can't be measured, it means they will be both good. but the level of faith they have that determines. just as a person who has high religious knowledge is not necessarily a good person if his knowledge only fills his head and does not enter into his heart let alone become the character of his personality. so many Islamic scholars say "A civilized (moral) person is much more worthy of respect and better than someone who has high knowledge but is not civilized (immoral)".

and the matter of improving the surroundings so that it is good can be done by improving starting from yourself. be useful to yourself and not to trouble others. just to the next stage that is useful for others.

religion create good living in society. For the classification of religion according to you is noted but those you called unbelievers have their own religion their practice and they believe something ease, when we are talking or making point of religion know very well that we are not focusing on christians but discussing on what you have as your religion, people worship devil's as believing culture and some people worship something like different from God, but can't condemn them because it is what they grown up with

Accourding to St. Augustine. In his "City of God" There are two peace in the world. Earthly peace and Heavenly. He said, heavenly peace is the best because there is no war, conflict or human disagreement in heaven. But earthly peace is the one we found ourselves. There is peace on the Earth but human with their accumulating ideas creates or causes disagreement among themselves. http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/history/dfg/jesu/augcity.htm

In the state of Nature. According to Thomas Hobbs. Man is wicked, brutal, nasty and life is very short. That is to him human is beings are very wicked from birth. But Political philosopher, Rousseau  Said, Human beings are good but it is the society they found themselves make them to be wicked. Someone that was good in the society became bad person because of what they did to him or her.

And also accourding to Karl Marx, Religious is an Opium. And what is an Opium? Opium is a substance which is used to make someone very weak for not to do what he or she supposed do to liberate his or her life from bondage. https://www.britannica.com/video/186414/opposition-religion-Karl-Marx.

Religious can't make peace because the people are control by the Politicians. And these Politicians are using divide and rule ideology. All the overseas are supporting the Political elites so, peace is absent in the world.

Because not all people believe in religion and it's rules/commandments well in fact those non-believers often tend to do crimes.

We, the religious, tend to forget that God is in control. If we don't stand up and fight for righteousness in society, God just might give us the same troubles that the unrighteous, non-religious people have.

But God straightens it all out for everybody, right where he is in his life. A wicked person might live a long life. But God is simply giving him a load of chances to change by finding religion. In the end, we all die.

In the further end, we all will have to give an account of our life to God. A person who said he was an atheist, will be corrected in the judgment. But then it will be too late for him.

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Religion is just like how people do their things and without religion people will  will continuous fall victim of decency and regulations of environmental life wont be easy to human life, we can not do without implementing law to our society any religion is like law in the that particular environment is obey without problem

You are correct! Religion is been diluted now, most of the leaders are after to change people  but their major concern is to make money from worshipers , that is why it seems religion is not having any effect in the society. Religion has failed that to play its purpose in the society  and things are becoming worse.

The real question is...

Since religion was set up by God - the Bible is one example of this - how are people going to accept religion if they won't even accept God?

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So everyone who is following a religion doesn't commit any crime? Its an unacceptable statement and you should get back.

People who are in the powers of religion even committing crimes and many uses their religion as a mask to cover up and hide under group of people, anyone can be good or bad and religion is not a barrier to it.

Don't get me wrong, I think that religious values in general, such as helping the poor, sharing is caring, love those you are with, etc., good things, it's just those in charge who have abused the power they have been given. My point is that believing in God is something that everyone should decide for themselves, from within. It's not about showing others how religious you are by going to church. It's a very personal thing that you don't need to talk about because our world is full of different views that need to coexist.

I don't think religion can save this world and wipe crime. There are some countries who are religion conscious but are the worst crime perpetrators. To me, religion is just an umbrella to differentiate one's beliefs and ideology and hardly stops the evil rooted in man.

Almost 90% of Our way of life is being influenced by relation, the way we live ,speak ,dress ,what we eat ,who we interact with and how we treat others.

I Strongly believe that our society is been controlled by our religion and believe, that why there have been increase in terrorism and many failed marriage and economical inbalance.

Well, let's see how religion is defined... Religion - The belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal God or gods: "Ideas about the relationship between science and religion" Synonyms: Faith · Faith · Worship · Creed · Sect · Church · Cult · Denomination A special system of belief and worship: "The great religions of the world" aspiration or interest to which someone attaches the highest importance: "Consumerism is the new religion" The passion that some people have about Bitcoin can essentially be described as the last definition under religion...

Religion deals with certain beliefs, doctrines and standards that one is seriously devoted to. What we see people doing most times negates what they say, in actual sense we perceive them to be religious but they are not because God at some point said the heart of a man is desperately wicked, who can know it. People are composed of their genetic makeup in combination of their environmental exposure. In the real sense religion should make things better but in this present dispensation where we have diverse and conflicting religions, the reverse is the case. Personal morals and upbringing, self discovery dictates who we are and what we do.

not everyone that is practice religion and practising religion does not mean a person will be good, their are two kind of religious people we have , the believers and the unbelievers.  It is not the responsibility of religion  to end evil totally in the society.  I know religion plays good role in the society but  not to stop all the evil going on in the society . We can also say parental up bringing of children in our society can also reduce evil in the society

Religion is a good one but we don't expect religion to tell us what we ought to do and what we ought not to do. The world is dancing away from religion and we have to fix ourselves before we put everything on religion. Everyone has a responsible and we should make sure we are doing the right thing than puting all blame on religion. So religion tolerate peace while some choose to bring it forcefully.

Religion is one's believe in a supernatural being.It is written in the constitution that there is freedom of worship,that is to say that one has the right to worship whatever or who ever he or she deems it fit.There is also right to life,which means that when one worships what he likes,he is free to live.But the society has changed the whole thing,making religion seem to be problemsome. Religious intolerance has taken over the society,and has brought evil,jealousy,wickedness,and hatred among the people.The christians can no longer live safe at where the Muslims are,and the Muslims are no longer safe where the christians are.Inability to  tolerate one another and each other's religion has cause chaos in the society today.

Look at item 6 in the definition of religion at https://www.dictionary.com/browse/religion.

6. something one believes in and follows devotedly; a point or matter of ethics or conscience:
to make a religion of fighting prejudice.

Everybody has a different religion, because no two people think exactly alike. The thing that is wonderful is that most people include in their personal religion, acting peacefully with people of religions different than theirs.

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I believe religion has very important role in development of our personality and how we interact with society. Religion teaches us humanity and & kindness. Children who attend religious services at least weekly are more likely to have positive social development than those who never attend religious services. Similarly, adolescents who worship at least weekly are less likely to steal than those who worship less frequently. All regions teach us behave gently and not to commit crimes in society but the issue is parents don't  practice their religion and don't take their children for religious service and worship regularly.

https://marripedia.org/effects_of_religious_practice_on_crime_rates

I see it that religion is what will bring this world to an end, because the different religion group we have now no longer respect boundaries. U see a preacher who will rubbish another religion without thinking of what the other person feels.

Sometimes this ends up in quarreling and killings. If was not introduce for one to be right or wrong, believe what u want and let the other person feel free to do same. But we fight to defend the religion which is we think is superior. It

Well written if all of us can actually follow our individual religion genuinely I think the world would have been a better place but the way our color is different so is the heart so it is not possible for all humans to behave disame , we can only correct and advise one another to always do good.

If you check very well you will see were are problems is coming out from, the problem of a man is not only from the government but from the actions of it's religion. And religion's start with how you moderates your family and how you build your environment. Corruption start from the leaders who we know well and the wrong the way you said start from the leaders, and that is why i said our problem start from how we build our families, because they one representing tomorrow

Corruption of Political leaders and elite class is a major cause of unrest and crime in many countries and in particular developing world. Corruption can only be eliminated when system of accountability is effective and it is across the board and public should only vote for those politician who are honest, committed and above all God fearing because we often forget that we all will be judged for our good and bad deeds on the day of judgement which is the basic teaching of every religion.

sorry if I am kind of highjacking the thread. how do you guys feel about religion or priests endorsing politicians? Our country, The Philippines, recently had our presidential election. as you can expect campaigns are everywhere which is fine by me, but what really irks me is that during the campaigning days a catholic church is being used by the supporters of one of the presidential candidates as a venue for her campaigning event, they even created a song for that candidate which was sung during a mass and priests pushing their political agenda during their sermons.

there is also a Religion called INC(Iglesia ni Cristo) in our country which Endorses Presidential and Vice presidential candidates to the people in their religion and asks them to support the Politician the religion endorsed.

It is wrong for religious leaders to be campaigning for politicians or supporting politicians openly. What the religious leaders are supposed to do is to correct and preach about bad leadership.  Religious leaders don't have anything to do with politics or campaigning for politicians, it will cause a lot of damages in the society.

Abstract ideas. I can so far agree on this point with you but the part where we try to disprove religion or the existence of some supernatural being or force, I can't say very much.
Maybe there is, maybe there isn't but, have you should be familiar that what you think of the most or the things you fear the most seems to befall you. That's how real religion and beliefs can be. You believe and as such, the pave is set for some force to take charge and operate as it wills. There are forces that controls this world but for them to have effect, you have to believe.

Your not believing in religion is a belief and your affected as such. Humans needs something to believe in gor there existence. More like the people in the past that believed in there Kings, even idolised them and of our time, people believe in politics and the government of there nation to save them. Its just how it is!

Religions has taking over 90% of human existence and thinking ,Religion determines how we behave ,eat ,dress ,Live our life.
Religion has taking over the society, it even control the government, Some leaders rule their followers based on their own religious belief and fail to recognise the followers too have their own religion and belief.
The question to be asked now is
▪His religion being over emphasized
▪How serious is your religious to you
▪Do you let your religion determine how you live your life.
Until this questions are properly answered then we can have a deep knowledge of how to go about religion.

There are so many functions of religion 1. Religion promotes social solidarity: it simply means that religion rises to the spirit of fraternity. Religion strengthens the social in solidarity. 2. Religion has the highest power of integration and testing in human society. It is true that common faith, common feeling, common worship, participation in common rituals, etc. are the essential factors that strengthen unity and solidarity.

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Good and Evil are two sides of the same coin, one cannot exist without the other. Think about it this way, if there were no evil in the society, how would you appreciate the good? The truth is that the more good trives, the more evil trives and vise versa. if i may suggest, do not think of the evil you see in man as a bad thing but accept it, embrace it and learn to leave with it. All you can do is to decide to be good inspite of the evil and stick to that path.

There are different religions in our society today,every human being is entitled to what they belief and worship.Religion is not supposed to bring chaos in the society,but it is obvious that the way some persons percieve it is quite different from the way some other person sees it.In some part of the world,Christianity and Muslim are like cat and dogs,they don't like seeing each other,and that is where I say they failed to practice  the right to freedom of religion,which allows us worship what ever thing we deem it fit to worship.

Why do you self-condemn your religion like that? Is it because the only religion that is right is the one that tells the truth, and it doesn't happen to be your religion?

It's true that all simple, humble people will have a difficult time finding the truth. It has to do with much study of the various religions of the world.

In your studies, start by attempting to find out whey the Bible is the number one published book in the world. And it isn't number one because it has only a handful of copies more than #2. Rather, it is possibly more than double the copies of the #2 book.

Look at the history of the Bible and how it was put together. You will find that it is impossible that this book could come about, except that the hand of God guided it this way.

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Preventing Evil and Promoting Good All these things seem to be connected with religion but the key role in all of them is civilization. Religion is also a kind of law that contains things like posthumous punishment and retribution.۔ Just as man has been breaking national and international laws in order to live a life of greed and luxury, so too religion has failed to show man the right path. The root of the problem is greed, which no law or religion can eradicate. It is often heard from intellectuals and scholars that man as he is today has never been like this before and that his condition is due to his need and increasing competition to meet his food and other basic needs. Does for۔ The time has come for human beings to move towards a life full of happiness with the help of technology which includes love and caring for each other. And this is the beginning of civilization and civilization always erases the mark of evil from the subconscious of man.

   Nothing wrong about religion but only people are just wrong about mindset of religion they don't respect other people who had their own religion. That's the problem of religion.

Religion and religious practices in the different part of the world differs and those differences are what causes confusion among the people of the world about religion.So many people who belief in their different deities and don't have any idea about religion have found peace within themselves,not having trouble with anyone,because they don't have time to mingle with people that are gathering in the name of religion.People should just accept the fact that people are entitled to their different opinions on religion,and as such,are free to worship whatever they like.

In the world today so many people don't count religion as nothing when the history was in the bible,and they fine it every difficult to understand what our fellow brother have in mind about each other,
What I realise is that is that it's not how human's lives far back is they way the do now, when the world have changed, the religion nowadays has put fear in the society  today.
To love our fellow humans orh help them,it every hard because of the way there might see it, that is why we keep on having problems that can not be solve buy anybody, hope to keep a clean heart to people who live around and to be bless from doe who you've help.

Religion is initiators of any corruption that is happening every where and that is why we need to blame them very well because the mistake of everything started from our they breed their environment, you are right we are not ought to alone religion to tell us what to do or control us for our environment, that is bringing problem for many societies

When religion is the main supporter of many manifestations of violence, it becomes involved in one way or another in perpetuating the situation due to its control over minds.
Unfortunately, despite attempts to develop, religions have failed to reform their systems, which, although they were able to modify some of the concepts, but they could not dispense with the racist view towards the different other.

That's all because people don't realize what religion is. The simple definition of religion is anything that a person does religiously... like day after day... because he thinks that it is the right thing to do in his life. Then he gets together with other people who think like he does, and his religion becomes a big thing.

We all forget that naturally, in nature, ALL people need air to breathe, water to drink, food to eat, clothing (to some extent), a house (of sorts) to live in, companionship, and a few other things. We are the same in all the basic ways. And our religions are basically the same if you are talking about basics.

The problems start coming when there is wealth, or lying, or greed, or psychopathic thinking, among certain people who talk others into believing their war-mongering BS. In other words, it is people and their religious behavior that is the problem.

The best religion is the one that tries to get people to cut back on religions that are fanatic and want to make problems for other people. And the best of these religions teach about God, Who set everything up, and Who knows best the way religions should behave.

There is one greatest point of religion that we should all find out about. We live only less than 100 years. We need the religion that teaches about eternal life... Jesus religion... found through reading the Bible.

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Religion is ubiquitous and universal in human culture (in one form or another for thousands of years). Anthropologically, this suggests that it is a fairly important component of developed human behavior. Only after the Enlightenment do we have the slightest idea of the possibility that all this is absurd. It's really not about faith – it has to be about evolution. Religion must have brought a substantial evolutionary advantage, otherwise it could not have existed at all. The majority of people who ever existed would have followed religious forms because they would have had no alternative and simply conformed to the social norms of the time and place where they were born.

My comment here is not about whether evolution exists or not. Rather, it's about whether or not we can know it for a fact.

The key point about our knowing if evolution exists is the "random mutations" point. Experimentation has shown us that mutations exist. The same experimentation hasn't produced any changes from one species to another. But if it did, it wouldn't prove evolution, because of the word "random."

For us, random means that we don't know which particular mutation(s) or combination of mutations produced the changes. And since we are only at the beginnings of figuring out which particular mutation made a mutational change, we just don't know enough to be able to truthfully say that there were a string of mutation changes that accidentally brought life into existence as it is.

Until we can take the word "random" out of evolution theory, we will never know if there even is evolution. The funny point about this is, this little word "random" turns all of belief in evolution theory into belief in a religion. In other words, we are mislabeling evolution when we say "Evolution Theory." What we should be saying is "Evolution Religion."

What we need is factual evidence from thousands of years in the past, where we KNOW what the mutations were, rather than simply guessing that there were random mutations that made life what it is.

It's as simple as that. Evolution is simply another religion, and an extremely weak one at that.

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EDIT: If there is a God that created everything, evolution becomes a religion. So, what is the proof that it was evolution and not something else? Provable world history only goes back about 5,000 years. Nobody really knows what happened before that, because NOBODY WAS THERE TO RECORD IT. So, how do they know that it was this way or that or some other? They don't. Evolution is all a guesswork religion.

Religion is nothing but a practice that creates a sense of community and belongingness in people. It was just designed to collect people in a group and ensure that they would treat each other as a friend and won't kill and eat each other but that survival of the fittest theory is still grown deep inside human mind which actually makes religion preachings useless which is why crimes still happen there is nothing like evil anywhere it's just human showing the true colours which is the one having the power will always supress the less powerful one.

Quite the opposite. Religion is the dedicated life you live. Why? Because we all make mistakes, so that nobody has the absolute truth. So it's his religion until he finds more truth and changes his religion into something else.

Talking about survival of the fittest as though it were a real thing, shows that such talkers have a very weak religion. Why? Because time and chance wipes out the fittest ever so often. Or God does it if they won't accept Him.

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All the wrong things that are happening in our environment I can't  put the blame to religion,  religion was created by man , even after religion was created not everyone belongs to a religion.  Some people don't belong to a particular religion and they still do things in the right ways.  I think religion is not the cause of bad life style from people.

You are mostly right when you say that all the wrong things that happen are happening because of religion. But to make it clearer and more accurate, it's because of wrong religion. And one of the biggest examples of wrong religion is the religion of no-religion.

Just because a person doesn't partake of some formal religion, and believes that religions are a bad thing, doesn't mean that he doesn't have a religion. By definition, what the word religion can included is, "something one believes in and follows devotedly; a point or matter of ethics or conscience (https://www.dictionary.com/browse/religion)."

This means that a person who believes that religion is bad or wrong, has that belief as his religion... a religion of no-religion. This self-contradiction might be the thing that wrecks a person's life.

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religion at first thing that creates the ideas of segregation and the impact of disobedience so I believe is that with the norms and the tradition of a particular region is what we determine the characteristics of people living in such space or particular environment religion takes about the pattern of Life living in a particular place as well, because I believe from this definition of religion at the religion history ka example and it explain very well how people behave and how people communicate and they contribute to the development of society, so therefore religion is the foundation of my mentality depends on the environment so it is the determinant of the behavioral activities of human

Religion cannot eradicate evils from society unless it has the power, especially state power.
It is not enough to just say that this thing is good and this is bad There is also a need for a law that determines the system of punishment, whether it is a liberal system or an Islamic system.
In Japan, Singapore, Dubai, and Qatar the law is strictly enforced, and like the government there, people protect the rights of others, which is why they are among the safest countries in the world.

something that is very impossible to happen if there is no evil on this earth.  as for religion and belief spread in every corner of the world will not eliminate evil on this earth. history records that there have been many violence and crimes in the name of religion, this is ironic. but I can not imagine if there is no single religion in this world, what will happen, will humans be more evil?

Religion and religious beliefs has put problem at where there was not  supposed to be problem,It has caused major chaos in the society,and many atimes,lives and properties have been lost because of  this beliefs.
Another thing that comes with religion and it beliefs is religious intolerance.This is a situation whereby a religion is not able to tolerate another one,and when this comes up, lives are always lost.If every one in the society can mind their business and allow everyone worship whatever they like,the society will be free of problem,dilemma and crises.

religion is something that we develop and we know from our own community neither it's a bye law which which the community engage self's and they focus on the tradition of the environment. Religion is like a tradition and it does not accept any other persons tradition so when you believe on your religion so will you do exactly what your religion stipulate about so that is why people find it very difficult to accept any tradition or the way of peoples character or the way people live in another environment so this is a function of religion and some people do stick on such the religion

Religion is not bad just that people follow Religion in the wrong way, they believe in Religion that they don't reason in the proper way. Some because of the Religion they belong they don't associate others who are not of the same Religion, they don't do things which on a norms it is the right thing but because of their Religion they avoid some certain things.

Many people does not know the real meaning of region and because of their misunderstanding of religion, they uses it to cause violence in the society making us to hate one another. Some people see religion and a light that shineth I'm out darkness seeing other people that do not take region serious as unreasonable.
Religion is strong and we should not use it to harm other people who does not have thesame perspective with us. Region should be for peace not for evil and we should all go for peace than supporting those that are using it to cause havoc.

Without the main religions (christian/catholic/islam/jewish) the world we know today would not be able to organize. That is why it is called established/organized religion. Most of the lessons they teach are how to be a good person. Bad people will always exist, and try to exploit any system for personal gain...including religions.

The core lessons are all that matters, and the rest is up to sinful humans if they want to follow them or not.

We need to understand that these are two major things that are different from each other, religion has its own believes and directions as guiding rules while the society itself has it own adopted culture as their own way of life, now how to balance the two into living a purposeful life is a thing of urgency to our present generation because this is one of the basis to misunderstandings and eruption of communinal conflict among the people of the society if not dealt with.


Some things were easier said than done, we most times frofess we love our brothers but putting it to action is a huge problem on many today, in which that's not what both the religion and the societal culture has taught to be the way of life.

Even though religion is aimed to teach good things, it causes a lot of anger and pain itself. Paradox but it is so

Jesus said, near the end of Luke 12:
It all has to do with an understanding about Jesus. Is he the Son of God or not? Is He here to give us eternal life, or only to tell us the way to live this life? When good friends or relatives believe differently, there is division... division that often cause quarrels and fights.

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Your words are very beautiful, my friend.

Unfortunately, the events of history prove otherwise.
Since the Greek gods were worshiped in the world, wars took place in their name. The famous saying "the gods want war" was chanted by the soldiers as a kind of stimulus. Christianity spread in Europe and the rest of the world by force of arms and violence, and the Crusades were the last wars in its name. Islam spread by the sword in the so-called conquests. And many other religions that legalized slavery and violence in all its forms.

Religion is a human need, but unfortunately it has been used throughout history to serve the ideology of violence.

The funny thing about religion in our society is that the biggest religion is the religion of lies. If people believe what some church says, do they understand the dogmas the same way the church leaders do? Does any church leader understand it the same way that other church leaders do? But they say that they do., when they really don't. Or they know that they don't, yet they lie to the church to keep the church together. The biggest church is the church of lies.

However, if a person believes in God and Jesus salvation, although he doesn't believe it the same way as anyone else, he still has the simple religion of truth between himself and God... because God knows what he really believes, and accepts him.

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Because of our different religion we belong to many religious worshippers have turn to enemies,  and our religious leaders are not helping matters.  Religious leaders are supposed to teach worshippers are to respect other religion it will make religion to be better in the society.

The trueness of the existence of God the creator of all things has never been in doubt. It is evidence in creature. There would have been no meaning in  the reality of creation if not for the revelation of God the supreme creator. Therefore the assertion that there is no God is not  only baseless but totally devoid of sound reasoning since the evidence, as I have said earlier, is apparent in creation. This write-up has never, would never and could never have been here as a creation if not for me, the creator. Not withstanding, the society has continued to be bitter at religion for its constant deviation from the goodness and mercy it were to be known for. Hence, religion has been seen as worth nots and God as either cruel to the plights of mankind or is non-existing. Yet, there is really one true religion that stands out over all for the scripture.

Human heart is desperately wicked. Thomas Hobbs and Jean-Jacques Rousseau as already said it in their social contract theories. Rousseau said, man is good and peaceful in the society but the institutions corrupt the peaceful mindset of man. Hobbs against Rousseau's theory on man and said man is wicked from birth. From thses exponents of man behaviour, you can see that religious has nothing to do with man. The question we have to ask ourselves here is, where are the institutions that corrupt the mind of individuals? But as for me these institutions are the government institutions like Legislature, Executive and the Judiciary. why? Because they are the law makers, implementers of the law and interpret the law. All the above mentioned are self-centered. It is not public centered. so the people are always angry with the system.  According to Augustine of Hippo in his City of God, he made mentioned of two cities. City of man and city of God. City of man is the city of violent, corruption and unrest while the City of God is the city of peace. http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/history/dfg/jesu/augcity.htm

^^^ In addition to the above...

The hearts of people being supremely evil, how could God make us so that we could live, when our hearts want to destroy us from the beginning of our lives? Here's how He did it.

However old you are, think back to when you were 20-years-old. Didn't a year seem to take a lot longer to pass by when you were 20? Think about 10-y-o. At ten a year took a long time to go by. And 5-y-o time took forever to get to 6-y-o. What about 3?, 2?, 1? How many of our years were we in Mommy's tummy?

Sure, nine months is nine months. But as we remember things back and back at our younger ages, a year seemed to take longer the further we go back. If we could be aware of time passing way back in Mommy's tummy, how many thousands, or hundreds of thousands, of years would that have been for us?

During all those thousands of years, God is forcing us to live. Not only are we being forced to live, but we are being pushed into the habit of living. The evil in us hasn't forced us to die, because God took it out of our hands, and forced the habit of living into us, to give us time to live.

Then we are born, and now we are out here, and we have control of our lives, and we are gradually killing ourselves by not remembering how to live... even though we had thousands of years in Mommy's tummy to practice living, to get into the habit of life. We are overcoming the habit of living God forced into us.

Out here it only takes us 70 or 80 years to forget how to live. Then we die. All our own doing by not maintaining the mindset (maybe the cellular mindset) that we had when we were in Mommy's tummy for thousands of years.

We are natural born self-killers. It's only the way that God let us come into being that's keeping us alive for as long as we stay alive. We really need to seek God for help, so that we can stay alive longer, or at least find new life after we die here.

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Your attachment is a realistic embodiment of the believer's mentality, which believes that it monopolizes the truth.
This is not the place to discuss the extent of the authenticity of the Christian narrative about creation and its causes, but all religions claim to possess this eternal truth and that all other narratives are erroneous, allowing room for nonsense difference that will necessarily lead to violence. The origin of religious violence is the ability of this system to operate outside the frameworks of reason and logic, and the further away we are from religion, the more inclined we become to harmony and peaceful coexistence. I really hope you realize this someday.

That's only because the attempt to be further away from religion is a religion in itself. Once this religion has become your position, you can go into other religions, like the religion of killing people through abortion, or the religion of making war on people of another country, or even the religion of becoming a thief and robber or swindler.

Pick your religion, but realize that even a religion of doing good to people won't last without God.

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Religion is all about good, but sometimes people distort its meaning a lot, which causes wars, hate, and violence

Since religions are based on complete acceptance of metaphysical ideas, their continuity is hostage to one of two things, either the establishment of a religious dictatorship, as happens with political Islam in our time, or the blessing of a military dictatorship. This is, of course, because the civil state denies it all the ways that religion can exploit to impose its control.
This can be summarized as violence is a system of life for religion to continue and this explains its continuity for many centuries.

 Religion is not changing people in our society today because they only listen without practising. People believe they are the ones to get everything they want themselves without having faith in God.This has led people to so many evil forgetting that God has shown us how to live our lives.
  The devil knows we are humans so he brought sickness,diseases,problems and difficulties to make us afraid and believe there is no God so that we can do the other way round which is the evil way.
   If you don't have good morals that is a negative behaviour,a corrupt person can kill, all these are the devil's way. Most religious people are weak in their faith.

I don't understand why you insist on calling this religion. Belief in universal values is called belief in universal values and not in a particular religion. Human beliefs are not limited to religion, there are sects that believe in other things.
There is a clear definition of religion that all schools agree on. I'm not playing with concepts here.
I hope I understood your words correctly.

Religion in the dictionay:
Look at any religion. It has its dogmas, its rules, its instructions, and all kinds of parts to it. Everybody who reads or hears about the parts, thinks different thoughts than everybody else who reads and hears the same thing. The thinking might not be greatly different. But it is different, because no two people think exactly the same thing the same way.

This means that everybody who says that he is a Catholic is different in his religion than everybody else who says the same. All formally religious people are at least mistaken about what they believe. But if they insist that they are the same religion with everybody else of that religion, then they are liars.

This means that the "clear definition of religion that all schools agree on" is not so clear after all. And the dictionary shows this about it.

So, since everybody is a liar with regard to everybody else pertaining to the religions of their individual lives, we can go to science fact (not theory) that shows the odds of there not being a Creator as entirely wrong. The complexity of things shows that this universe couldn't have come about as it is without an extremely powerful, outside Intelligence having brought it into being. Such a powerful Intelligence matches our definition of the word "God" in all the ways each of us might individually think of the words within the definition.

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This is one of the definitions of religion. Maybe it's basically a linguistic definition.
Psychology defines it in one way and sociology defines it in another. You will find different definitions of it in almost all dictionaries.
Generally, when you say “religion” to any person in any society of any culture, he will understand that it is the means of God’s communication with his human creatures through which he expresses himself and his thoughts. Of course, everyone believes that he has the correct religion, which confirms the naivety of the idea, in my opinion.

Maybe I think you did not understand what what they're trying to expanciate with religion and and society because when you are asked to define what is religion and he also asked to define society. You will not see that society is fog different from religion but the boat work in accordance and would have a different meaning without religion society cannot function and with that society region cannot function so all this is totally the character of human behaviour as a woman adoption and the adaptation for one environment or one particularly ethnicity

Right and true religion is this >>> to help everybody who has a real need, usually the poor, children, the weak and the sick, etc. And to do it for little or no pay.

And then to come to faith in the fact that when you die, it's really that Jesus is taking you out of this life to a new life in a new universe that has no problems, to live in joy for ever and ever.

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The religion you are emphasising is only meant for Christians and the ocean Muslims that is when you come into your religion not about culture. What from things that I notice even normal cultured environment do also love one another they give things two people without asking for return and I know that's such character is a character of a good religion but not everybody that follow such kind of behaviour. So I'm of this solution that stipulate that givers never lack and it's the religion i think your point deriving at

If they don't follow their evil thoughts, it could happen and when people don't desire ranks and fame, it could happen but people nowadays have their own wants and mostly they want what people have and that's the start of the problem. Jealousy and hate trigger the unstoppable problem because it creates anger, and greed, and people who have this kind of trait often hurt their relatives or friend if they cannot control it which is kinda hard if they don't have any spiritual laws to follow. Muslim have their own answers to these problems and if you read their solutions regarding it, you will be mesmerized by the answer, just read it without any bias or hate just to have an idea why people think a certain religion will have the answer to today's world problem.

I recommend this video to watch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sX2sT5-HQBQ&ab_channel=cutesunshine

The Christian religion, the Bible religion, has 3 major points throughout:
1. The way to eternal life through Jesus (Messiah) salvation;
2. To love God above all things, and your neighbor as yourself;
3. Bible examples of the things that happen when love is or isn't followed.

This is for everybody, because:
1. All people want salvation even though many don't realize ti;
2. There is nothing more fundamental than love for God who made us and who maintains us, and love for our neighbor (all other people) so that we live in peace in this life.

The Bible examples express and show what happens when people don't follow this. Since people won't follow it completely, God has in mercy granted eternal life to people who try. But it is pretty easy. Salvation comes to those who simply believe in Jesus salvation. And we naturally know what we need in life, so we know what everybody else needs, and can live in peace and harmony because of our knowledge.

Simple as that, even if it is not so simple to put it into practice at times.

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Crimes and violence are the part of the society as long as religion, unfortunately

Some religions, yes... but others no.

When a person says he is a Christian and that is his religion, if he doesn't follow it, is it really his religion? Or is he a liar?

Check out the New Testament, the whole basis for Christianity. There is no call for violence other than self defense a little. Just the opposite. There are only calls for religious, Christian peace in the NT. The problem is people.

And if you want to say that Islam is the religion of peace, check all the places the Quran says to do violence: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=888757.msg10381547#msg10381547.

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I believe you (the OP) is from a religion group. And if you are from a religion group how do you feel about this thread and your character toward other people in the society? Remember the theories of English philosophers of John Locke. Thomas Hobbes, and also French philosopher of Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

John Locke said, in the state of nature human beings need not to hurt another person but it is not possible in the society where different characters live together. https://edubirdie.com/examples/john-lockes-concept-of-human-nature/

Thomas Hobbes said, in the state of nature human beings were very wicked they are on war always. https://www.britannica.com/topic/state-of-nature-political-theory

Jean-Jacques Rousseau said, in the state of nature human beings were very good and and everybody was perfect but the society they found themselves corrupt them. https://1000wordphilosophy.com/2021/09/27/rousseau-on-human-nature/

From the above theorist you can discovered that human being character is not controlled by religion but by the society itself and religion is trying it best to refined the behaviour of the individual. Religion can only tell you what is good and bad and it is the individual to decide whether to choose the good or the bad.

But what is the real chiristianity? It has been changing through years. Moreover, the Bible can be understood in many different ways

Real Christianity is a combination of two things:
1. to be sorry for making mistakes, doing wrong... based on the Ten Commandments and the law of love for God and for other people;
2. Accepting the forgiveness that Jesus offers, that He gained for all people through His suffering and death on the cross.

As you said, the Bible can be understood in many different ways. But this doesn't have anything to do with what the Bible says. The Bible interprets itself. It's people who don't want to look at the whole thing, and understand it all, that come up with really wrong understandings of the Bible. People who study the Bible, and who listen to sound teachings from people who studied it more, are people who don't go off with crazy misunderstandings of it.

However, to be fair, the Revelation says in chapter 19 that nobody will understand the Bible completely. If you go and read chapter 19, you won't find anything that says it the way I just did. That's because people don't take the time to study the Bible to see how chapter 19 says what I said it says.

So, yes. People can and do many things that they shouldn't do, including placing wrong interpretations on the Bible.

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Indeed, religion always teaches about goodness. But human nature is different. There are people who have good personalities, there are also people who have bad personalities.

In essence, in this world can not be separated from the name of the nature of envy, jealousy, as well as other bad traits. Therefore, religion teaches us to always obey in a good way, and not easily get carried away by emotions.

There are some people who are obedient to their religion, some are not.

Not all religions teach love and peace. Even those religions that in their inception called for peaceful coexistence between people, it turned out later that this was to win popular sympathy and to attract more followers. Then the laws of those religions are transformed into laws of life that impose the domination of one class or group of society over another.

Almost this happened with the most prevalent religions today on the surface of the earth, including Islam and Christianity, which was an element that helped to expand the empire in their time.

It's natural for humans to act differently from what is expected of people who are under the umbrella of Christianity. True religion as @BADecker observed is supposed to be practiced without eye service or salutation.
But what goes on these days is hypocrisy and lip service but crime rates is on the high.

 Where I come from, churches are scattered every where but yet still there's corruption, crime and chaos around. While there are the good ones, there's still the bad ones who spoil the reputation of the good.

But what does the Christian religion really show... that most other religions don't. It shows the personal - between you and God - everlasting life Jesus offers... and why and how it works.

Of course, the whole Bible revolves around doing and being good and righteous. The examples in the Old Testament of the Bible show what happens to people who are not good and right as they live before God, and people who are.

One big focus sould be this. In Matthew in the New Testament, Jesus says, "Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened." When it doesn't work for people who ask, they say that it was simply not God's will. But if it wasn't God's will, then how could Jesus say it in the first place?

The focus is faith in God. Time to focus on what faith in God really is. In a different area of the NT, Jesus shows what faith can be, "Because you have so little faith. I tell you the truth, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you."

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Religion teaches us about how to live a good life and end it with good deeds, but criminal activity didn't begin with us and it won't end with us because even God, who is our creature, knows that we humans will never be satisfied with what we have, which is why he created heaven and hell fire before our existence. If you look at the world today, it has completely changed because primarily those to whom God has given power, such as some imams and pastors are the ones that entice young people to engage in illegal activities, such as using yahoo and other scams, the most,due to lack of funds.

I will accept your appoint that crime's and violence is what make environment to be together and without crime that will be a unity and the togetherness for a particular environment because all this thing's is what makes someone to know the particular person that even be it's relative

Many people live in this world, all of them belong to some tribe but they are human.  All people's hearts are not the same, some people's hearts are full of greed.  Those who have the wealth most need more, many beg but not enough.  People do not live forever in this world but people betray their own company.  But religion provides some security otherwise people would have indulged in more evil deeds.

Whatever religion you belong to, lies, greed for other people's wealth, and treachery can be avoided, peace will return to this society.  Our hearts are full of greed and lust because of which we betray our fellow man. Changing such habits will bring peace back to this world.

It's only because of this religion that the sense of humanity has survived in the society. Greed has brought people down so important that no bone cares about anyone they try to achieve their own interests. Agree that rapacity must be avoided in order to maintain peace and order in the true sense of the overall weal of humanity, we can make the society beautiful by being compassionate anyhow of estate, motivated by social weal and abstain from rapacity. At the morning of creation people didn't have different persuasions, all people had the same geste.

Even without religion, everyone of us knows the right that will aid in the development of our society, and once you deviate from it, your good conscience will remind you immediately, but the problem is the willingness to implement it.

There is a very straight forward answer to this question. Religion is the root cause for violence and crime. Take for instance what religion has raised throughout history. Moreover, the christian church is constantly accused of pedophily. Religion is something that is retarded and doesnt have any place in future. In order to evolve, humans need to separate themselves from old and unuseful thigs such as religion. Imo, the world would be far better if we did not had religion.

Religion teaches us to live morally upright lives that lead to happy deaths, but all these violent acts have nothing to do with religion because, as we all know, it does not condone the killing of its followers. This reminds me of the Christian girl who was murdered last year by hausa people in North Side in the name of religion. As a Muslim brother, I had never seen anything like that in my community since I was born, so that accident made me feel especially bad. However, I must admit that human beings tend to be very greedy, selfish, and unkind to one another, which has a negative impact on society.

A person's religion is what he lives. He might say he is part of a peaceful religion, but if he doesn't act peacefully, he is lying, and his religion is something else.

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Religion is no one problem in Africa is doing more harm than good, imagine believing in God to give you a professional job when you are not competent for the jamb. Making people more lazy. Believing God will do every thing for us.
For my opinion religion is a major set back in african development

Religious in our society has brought a lot of change in our world today.
They society today has there own cause and life style of living ,this has brought alot of rich men to oppress those that don't have money to look has if there is no God but there is, you just need to have apply wisdom in what ever you are doing on earth.
Religion today has bring to our knows the bad from the good side of life, it has also make so many men powerful because the belief in there religion.
I guess religion in our society has done no harm to the society.

Religion is a personal thing. A bunch of people might attend the same church or religious meetings, but what they really believe in their hearts might be different for each of them. There are crooks who go to church just to get recognition in society. Their religion might be a lie, but that doesn't mean that the particular religion as a whole is bad.

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I wonder, was Jesus around when Bible was written or not?

If you mean Jesus in His earthly life about 2,000 years ago, and if you mean the actual, original writing of some part of it, probably not.

The Old Testament was completely written before Jesus was born. However, it was being copied continuously at the time of Jesus, and any time there was enough peace in Israel so that they could copy. They didn't have printing presses. So, scribes were at work, carefully making new copies all the time.

Other than some notes that somebody might have been making, Jesus ascended to Heaven before any of the New Testament was written. We rely on the Holy spirit accurately reminding the Gospel writers of what to write.

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all religions always teach good things, especially manners. but there are people who really understand religion and practice it, there are also people who understand but don't practice it, in other words he knows he made a mistake but he still does it.

and it is lust that drives all these bad deeds. all religions must teach us not to submit to our passions.

for passion can make a king a slave, while patience can make a slave a king.

so human passions are the first to be fought. if we continue to fulfill our desires then, all of that will not have an end, instead it will become greed that controls ourselves.

The role of religion for some people on this earth is very important, considering that religion is a place to fulfill human needs spiritually. Hinduism is the oldest religion in the world according to experts. however, long before that, the ancients had embraced the belief system of animism and dynamism, and even today many still adhere to this belief system.
Religion plays an important role in the history of human development. to the extent that the development of religion is able to form a social identity with a religious label, then that label creates the distinction between humans and other humans.

On the other hand, crime is not something that is foreign to human life because crime is truly experienced by humans on this earth. within every human being has an immoral dimension that raises the potential to act evil. various kinds of criminal acts that occur on earth confirms that criminal acts already exist in the structure of the human mind itself. religious or not, evil will always exist as long as humans still rule this earth.

note: I used to love to read, and I remember one of the philosophers, Gottfried Leibniz. Leibniz said of all that is possible, God has created the best. in this world there must be evil. man is created imperfect, and in this imperfection, he can have moral vices. because the world is imperfect, humans are victims of physical crime.

^^^ Like some India religions, creation of the earth is mentioned in the Bible. There is a timeline there that shows that this earth is about 7,500 years old. It is not an easy timeline to follow, and it needs backup from other versions of the Bible than what is generally found in English today.

The point is that the Christian religion goes back to the Beginning, even before the creation of Adam and Eve.

For those of you who listen to the scientists who talk like they know when and how the universe started, consider that there are many unknown things that could easily show that their calculations are probably very wrong. And, because of the way the Bible is written, it also doesn't show the length of time back to the actual beginning of the Universe. The Bible only shows the amount of time back to the making of Adam and Eve on the sixth day, and the five days before.

All time listed before the making of Earth in the Bible - about 7,500 years - is unknown.

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I think I disagree with that one that want is a fallacy not all religious or all religion teach a good thing song lay religion teach about things but people don't understand until another people or another person from another ethnic group that perform different religion visit their environment so not all religion that teach a good thing in society there is a religion that sacrifices human be and doors religion who sacrifices human be will they call a good religion or a bad religion

I am in support of your sentence because not all religion are right because many of the religion practice abnormal things for their society which even their environment many people who know that their tradition is not well defined will a also inform you if you have go into a deep environment that I have an ancient kind of culture

So people had taken religion to be very important that there neighborhood. Religion is something we must treat with respect and at the same time we need to respect people around us so that we would not go too extreme in religion and do the things that would make people to ask questions whether we are metally okay or not.

Religion has help in civilization and taming of humans who are wild in nature,
But those who have misinterpreted religion are the cause of the ugly face of religion  ,

Religion like every other thing in this world has its good sides and it's bad sides depending on which side you stand in viewing it

It is said that the more the religious centers in a place or dwelling ,the more the sin committed in that area , and that's because evil forces are always around to challenge good will,

There is a saying that states that,  wherever God build His church , the devil also build his shrine nearby.

I think religion is a practice that directs it followers on a good path, but believe me humans will always remain humans,

Sincerely I don't really think a religion can change a person, except he/she is willing to change.
I believe every religion have it rules and regulations (commandments) but yet people go against it, because there's a belief that there's is forgiveness,

To me, I think religion is a personal thing, it's a matter of the heart, because a group of persons might be same religion practice but just few are doing the right thing, others are just there for eye service,
Example the church(Christians)

Religion I think it's playing a better role though, but the followers are the problem because they would always go contrary to their religion practices.

The persons that are involved in crimes in the society today are of many religion, and I don't think there's is any religion that supports crimes, eg
Killing,
Stealing,
Murder,
Rape, etc
But you will find out that those persons carrying out this crimes are of religion groups that are so much against crimes....

^^^ The Taliban isn't Christian, is it?     8)

Satan doesn't care which religion. As long as he can get people to deny God, and especially Jesus, their Savior.

Among the best Satan religions are atheism and agnosticism. Islam has a better chance at saving someone, because the Koran mentions Jesus.

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A religious man is not a righteous man.
Religion is believed to have the ability to influence the way people behave, but it seems that Religion has failed by not leaving upto expectations. Instead religious people has left the purpose of Religion. They are now in a serious war with one another, fighting on which religion will dominate the earth.
I don't want religion but I want morality and Co existence of humans among other creatures.

People understand how to act towards other people. It's natural. It goes something like Do unto others what you would have them do unto you. What formal religion is for is to show people what they would like others to do to them, so that they can do these things to other people.

But the main thing of the Christian formal religion is to remind people about God, and to show them Jesus, Who will raise them from the dead on the last day.

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Another thing that must be taken into account is that not everyone practices religion. Even if religion has a good impact on some people, it may not influence others. So, while religion may have a good influence on certain people, it is unlikely to lead to a decrease in crime overall. It's also important to note that religion isn't the sole element influencing people's behaviour. Other factors, such as financial status, education, and upbringing, can also influence outcomes. So it is not as simple as claiming that religion would lower crime. In contrast, if we are raised in a way that encourages selfishness and aggression, we are more likely to participate in illegal activity.

Every religion teaches us morality.  Every religion has a message of peace and reconciliation.  If one follows his own religion perfectly I think he cannot indulge in any crime.  Because no religion supports crime.  Religion always shows people the way to peace.  But as the days go by, people's faith in religion is rising.  For which people are going astray and engaging themselves in various crimes.  Crime and corruption trends are increasing day by day in almost every country.  Nothing seems to be able to eliminate them.

This is very clear as the answer speak volume most they way I perceive the question, as long as human being is concerned where what is inside the heart is hidden it's very deficult for any religion to completely cut off crime but can only minimize the rate at which they would have occur through sound teaching and this could only be possible to those who 65% is to practice the true relijion.

Secondly religion don't have any parameters set to measure in how they can cut off crime because it's when you have such parameters that you will check and balance to know if your able to do or not, though people may say that sound religion has the power to cut down crime I don't disagree but can't eliminate it completely based on the human heart difference and the mind construction can't be read by the face many wear religion as cloth and are ready to dropped it at any given time to perpetrate crime.

Just as have said earlier if religion has parameters it's this that will make them know that from so number to next number is crime free and from there they will know what is left to tackle there by achieve it but since no parameters is not possible.

The mean reason for religion being introduced into society was for the regulation of the activities of Man to see how human activities and their excess can be contained and now human society has evolved and because of the economic hardship all over the world religion has little or no effect on man now because with what I see is man is now back to that hobbisians state where life is brutish nasty and shot because men will do anything just to survive now

I think that religion is actually reducing the rate of crimes, and we may not be able to tell this because we haven’t lived the world without religion. However, imagine if people didn’t have religion to hinder them from committing various crimes and sins? There are certain things we all could have done but we know it won’t be good by God so we don’t do them. That’s all because of  religion.

Everyone practices religion, but not everyone sticks to the rules. Many individuals do strange things out of their minds, forgetting that religion exists. Their minds have been closed, and they are unconcerned about anything religious. We always claim that the world has come to an end because people no longer follow religion, while some individuals will take someone's life simply to make themselves happy or to get money. Though it is because of religion that we still have peace of mind in some societies, when someone plans to do evil, they will remember religion, whereas others will not, prefer to get whatever they want by all possible means.

It is not everyone of us who is going in the right path right now, there is no more good love, we plan evil against each other, a lot of things are happening that are not supposed to, I keep wondering if this is the end of the world or if it is due to the hard economy. I think that at the end of the day, the reason we have it is that the hard economy is taking us in the wrong direction. Religion will be very hard for us as humans to complete, we can never be in the same direction because of our different thoughts.

Yes, but the bad leaders will have these days are no longer do the right thing their forefathers was doing for the betterment of their religion in the society than to do what will benefit them and their entire family.

Religion is to make people to love themselves, and do things that will make them know that they are one in the religion but some group of people that is benefiting from crimes and other negative things in the society, we never allow things like that to reign among the people in the society because their voices will no longer be heard anymore.

 Christian, Judaism and Islam believe that they are calling or serving one God but they will never allow Islam to marry Christian, and Christian will never allow their children to marry or relate to Judaism, and those are the things affecting our religion today causing killing and crimes everywhere.

All religions teach good things and prevent all forms of evil, but this is not done by humans due to a lack of faith in humans and a very minimal level of understanding of religion, thus creating shortcuts to obtain wealth through brutal methods, such as robbery. , and kill, even though it is only momentary satisfaction without thinking about the effects that will occur. So over time it becomes a bad habit. If you have faith within yourself and continue to hone your spiritual knowledge then that will not happen, and this religion is a way to cleanse our soul and body. When we have already sinned, there is still a way to cleanse the soul, namely by repenting and not repeating the act again.

We all belong to religion but very few people follow the principles of religion. Only one thing is responsible for all the murders, fights, wars and hatreds in the world and that is greed. Due to greed, brothers are killed, friends become enemies and even the wars of one country with another are responsible for this greed of people. Greed is of various types, greed for money, greed for power and greed for wealth etc. Religion never supports greed. But people are only greedy.

All religions have one thing in common and that is humanism. No religion allows wrongdoing to non-believers. However, some dishonest leaders spread hatred among people in the name of religion.

 Islamic marriage rules allow intermarriage with non-Muslims, but the bride/groom must believe in one God, eg Christianity. Christians believe in God. So Islam allows a Christian to marry.

I think people who truly practice the religion, won't include themselves in any crime for some entertainment. But most of people in our society are greedy. They love power, money, good food, good clothes, good life to lead and for self satisfaction, they don't rethink about committed any crime. Religion can't stop them cause religion are just a name for them and i believe, they never try to know properly about their religion or greediness in their heart changed them and they have given it more priority to committeed crime.

It is funny. Because this topic actually makes me think of something which is kind of common here in my country.
Usually, people who commit crimes or are prone to do so try to keep a façade of being religious or have turned into born again Christians while in prison or after facing some consequences due to their actions.
It is specially common in the east of the country.

One finds people who previously committed crimes completely dressed up, using ties and holding a Bible when walking around, but people still do not trust them. It is a tactic used by some petty criminals for people to get off guard in their presence so they can continue to commit crimes without getting caught.
Those crimes usually do not involve the use of fire arms, but still, there have been extraordinary cases or crimes committed by those who were regarded as the most religious people of a community.

I guess I do not need to point out the cases of sexual abuse, though.

Religious precepts and customs teach people true morality. If you don't apply this right religious knowledge properly then you don't care about religion. The scope of this knowledge is thoroughly explained in every walk of life, starting from how to treat others well. So religious discipline consists in establishing you as a righteous person and you will not approach crime. So you should start your life journey by starting religious education from childhood. If you haven't got it yourself, start now and teach your child too. Only if you start from your family and encourage your surroundings, only then will the crime tendency from the society be reduced and it is possible to establish a beautiful society.

This is good thought op, I really appreciate your thought. We should practice our religion cause most of religion, we are following, advise us for good work, help people, work together, stand in One's side when they are in problem and live peacefully. But some people won't follow their religion at all. They are just in, that's all but do whatever they want. Besides there are many people who don't believe any religion. But the necessary thing is, we should be a good human being. Change yourself, world will be changed too

There are people who do not follow any religion, but that does not mean they are bad people. There are atheists who are good people and mind their own business, they won't even debate on religion and will respect other's faith.
On the other hand, there are an special kind of person who is more harmful than atheist, those who say to practice a religion, are considered to be religious leaders, and yet they only use that position in their church or community to get economical benefits for themselves.
It is typical the example of the fake pastor or priest who does not actually believe in his own faith, who rather keep his church as a business , they collect the tribute for the church to sustain a sinful life style, while his followers remain ignorant of that reality.

It is a deadly kind of hipocrisy in my opinion and unfortunately, I believe it is more common than we assume it is. It only takes a look at the cases of sexual abuse within the catholic church, if some priests are willing to sexually assault children then they are even more willing to misuse tribute money.

Religion plays a very important role in our society because with religion people's lives become more focused. Because in religion we are taught all the necessities of life, such as a government system, mutual respect so that there is no such thing as discrimination in social life. And with religion people will also know God, so that arrogance will be reduced or even disappear. The point is that religion plays a very important role in the continuity of social life.

If you want to change the society, you need to change yourself first, and in this case, it is better to respect religion and obey its rules. The good advice you give others needs to be followed first so that your words can be accepted. To ensure peaceful social coexistence and ensure that your responsibilities are taken seriously as a whole. Many people of different religions can live in the same society and ensuring their freedom to practice their religion is also equivalent from your religious point of view. Therefore, excesses in the observance of religion will not be appropriate. Peaceful coexistence of people of different religions is a prerequisite for building a beautiful society.

Of the majority of those who adhere to religion, there are certainly good and bad, our duty as a society is to be tolerant of other religions and those without religion.
I am sure that all religions teach tolerance towards others and other good things, even if there are still those who abuse religion for their own personal interests, perhaps they do not yet realize what the meaning of the religion they follow.
If your thoughts are like the hypocrisy or harassment that occurs in various cases, perhaps it is the person who is at fault, not the religion.

Yes I concur because this speak volume in my heart, religion can never solve crime issue except there is high level of equality between the rich and the poor in our society, human being are football when hit on a wall will bounce back, as the rich keep oppressing the poor their bouncing back is crime unlimited, using religion as tools for savaging crime is like a farmer with working tools until religion is give what it take by fully displaying love and begin to make everyone equal which will fully transit to our society it will not work as crime may be inevitable.

it is a religion that bring corruption because when people in that particular area is living a good way I don't think about there will be a much crime in the society but inside that Society what the preaches is a corruption so I don't know how there will be elimination of a crime we should do not be considering of religion to amend crime of citizens because I know very well that what a religion can do is to impact a knowledge of what you don't know and in this life will live is a life personal race, and religion can not stop crime.

Man is above all living beings on earth because God has created man with a unique characteristic that is not found in any other living being. And that distinctive feature is called conscience. Because of this sense of conscience man is considered the best of all living beings on earth.
Religion is a divine matter through which man is punished or rewarded in the next life. Since there is no direct attainment of anything in the world through religion, many people hear the message of religion but cannot grasp it in their hearts. Due to this all lawlessness and anarchy are created in the world.
But it is true and natural that the world will not be a good place for mankind if people do not awaken this unique feature of conscience or practice conscience.

Most of the people that belong to religion are not really their to do the right things,  most people just belong to religion just to cover themselves up to disguise themselves as better people in the society. Many people who claim to belong to a religion hide under it to commit evil. I just understand that religion is not a guarantee for people to be good and their people who do evil that belive in God and pray to him, this doesn't make them to be good people.  So I think religion is just an organisation for people to belong,  some come for life healing to be changed person , some are their just to feel among.

There is no problem with those who adhere to religious legislation that is compatible with humanitarian principles. Rather, the problem is with those who commit crimes even while practicing religion. The idea here is the principle of “forgiveness” that all religions grant to their adherents, so that the criminal does not hesitate to commit barbaric acts before praying for forgiveness from the Lord, who promised to forgive him for his sins as long as he declared his repentance.

You believe that the world is better with religions on the grounds that they provide moral motivation not to commit crimes, but the events of history do not agree with your opinion. There are wars that have lasted for decades because of religious justifications. I mention to you, for example, the long wars between Protestants and Catholics, or what is known as the Crusades between Christians and Muslims. Can you deny the role of religion in these conflicts?

I am just too exhausted to check this but even a surface research would show that religion actually provides moral motivation to not commit crimes. It doesn’t mean that every single Christian, Muslim, etc cannot commit crime while being religious, but it gives you the idea that religion has that notable impact. And I’ll boldly say that without religion there’ll be more crimes because the only moral will be personal morals (which may not be sufficient).

I accept your opinion and agree that human moral knowledge can be developed through religious education. It is recommended that you stay under the right religious guru who can gradually educate you from morals to religious teachings. No matter what religion you belong to, every religion promotes the education of humanity.
Criminals are also followers of different religions but the message of true knowledge has not yet penetrated into them due to which they indulge in crime. So I think increasing the level of religious knowledge and proper practice can help to reduce the crime trend of the society as well as the country.

Tye rate people are turning region to something they can use to steal and decieve others to bring their money so that they can enrich their pocket. We need to be wise and always make sure that we do the right without allowing region to create enemies between us and our brothers that might not believe in what we do or our dogma. Their are plenty of regions in the world and it is high time we make sure that we do everything that is good enough to avoid religion war or conflict that might bring hatred to our environment.

Religion is a religion of peace, but it must be accepted by all.  We generally live in the society but do not follow the rules of the society due to which the number of crimes in the society is high.  Therefore, it is the duty of every citizen to follow the laws of the society, the laws of the country and the religion, only then will there be peace in the society. But generally there is a type of people who are ready to obey the law and consider themselves arrogant, which is why you are the most visible in society. Being humans, they behave aggressively towards humans, and they do not hesitate to kill humans because of pride and lack of knowledge. So if they follow the laws and good practices of the society and live against the religion then it will be possible to live easily in the society only.

Those who follow religion in general can never be bad, basically there are some people who have the most ego and are basically followers of religion and indulge in bad deeds. The most hated people in the society are those who spread pride among the people in the society or even as citizens of the country. No matter what religion a person is, if there is pride inside him, he can never be good, mainly those who follow Islam religion have more good numbers, because they fear Mu'min and Allah the most. So people basically follow religion and live together in society without pride people are known as valuable person in society.

Religion provides us with moral guidelines, principles and values ​​that shape individual behavior within a society. The teachings we follow in religion help us to do things like compassion, honesty and respect for others which make society conducive to peaceful living. When individuals incorporate the foundations of these religious teachings into their daily lives, they can contribute to the overall welfare of society. Whatever religion he belongs to, if someone creates confusion about religion in the society, then that society can never be established.

In ancient times, religion played an important role in evaluating the moral behaviors of society and on its basis, morals were determined. The situation has become different today with the multiplicity of sources of moral legislation, such as international agreements guaranteeing human rights and the high rates of urbanization in most societies, even poor ones.

I do not deny the role of religion in absolute terms, since it relies on intimidation of eternal punishment that the criminal may receive in the afterlife (Hell), but today we are talking about religion as a supplement to man-made laws, and that it is not the one that determines them.

Note: Religion cannot be absolutely pure because many religious laws allow the killing of those who do not follow them. The issue always required human intervention to correct it.

There is a proverb that pride is the root of downfall. That is to say pride is like a fire that slowly leads a person to fall. Whoever is attached to religion or awakens religious values ​​in his heart any injustice can be removed from society or the country. And if every person follows his human religion then the whole society and the world will be peaceful and no one will be aggressive anymore. And above all, if people practice knowledge, the world will be free from tyranny because knowledge and pride never live together.

In a society, everyone is having the right to practice any religion they wanted to, its our own choice to make use of any choice of of desire, inasmuch as that will not affect other people in the society, we should also be mindful of what is called religion tolerance, this is the reason why we shouldn't have anything to do with being violent in the society and we should be able to adapt to whatever thing we have already seen and leant for the progress of everyone in the society.

There are some people in the society who always spread hatred among people in the name of religion. Basically, their job is to create conflict between people to achieve their own interests and they do this. Although religion teaches people to be honest and keep peace, some people in the society sometimes cause differences with their own people. Beware of these people!

Not through religious education. It’s not the knowledge or education that i am talking about. I’m talking about that personal belief and connection to one’s god. So beyond the knowledge, the relationship you have with your god is what should help and not just the mere knowledge of your religion. You seem to not understand.

There are some special people living in the society who have a lot of pride in their minds. And some people are masked, they treat people well as well as engage in bad deeds. Basically, society and religion teach people to live simply, but because of pride and greed for wealth, people start misbehaving among people. It is only because of these kit people that the society today has more and more victims of law and crime.

Yes I concur to your phrase it speak volume in my heart, many today never followed the purpose of why religion was introduced into their society, that is why the saying that when a purpose of a thing is not known abuse is inevitable, today religion has turn out to be a hub for criminality, killing, rituals, political attacks and all sort of hinious crime against the original purpose of why religion is made for.

Time is coming when people will no longer believe on the true religion but follow the falseful practice that is lately introduce than the truth.

The existence of this class of people in every society is noticeable. Many do evil under the cloak of religion which causes harm to other religious gurus. The maximum people of the society not keep their faith. Therefore, it is important for everyone to have proper religious education, under the influence of which he himself will be an honest and good person, as well as the society and the state will benefit from it.

Religion suppose teach people how to love, care for one another so that other people will begin to feel the impact of religion in the society, but religion has created a lot of negatives things in different societies to put the life of citizens in danger because of the religion they belong to.

Showing our self and other people around us love, despite the religion they belong to in the society, it will make others people to learn from those who are doing the right thing to be a good representative of their religion to make other people know that religion is a good thing.

There is no way you can avoid religion, and all you need to do is to do what will make your religion people to know that you are really following the truth of the religion you came from, which is the major thing we need to apply in our different religion to end bad activities in religion.

Yes, many people indulge in such evil deeds under the guise of religion, because they do not accept society as self-sufficient. If a citizen obeys the religion and the laws of the country and the laws of the society, he will certainly become a good person, but usually indulges in bad deeds under the guise of religion. That is why every man should have religious knowledge inside him so that he can live rightly and should teach other people well and live together in society.

Are there really people indulging in evil act and claim they are doing it for the sake of religion? No religion support evil and anyone doing that is absolutely ignorant of whatever religion he/she practices. Religions law, if practice according to their respective scriptures will definitely give us a sane society devoid of oppression and wickedness but unfortunately majority of people nowadays including those who are suppose to teach religious knowledge only practice the part that favor them and abandoned the part that goes against their own personal life. It's very pertinent to for everyone to seek the knowledge of religion they practice in order not to be deceived by some set of people who are after their personal interest.

people has made the Pont that interest me in this discussion Society can be only affect you when you involve yourself into the society and the religion can also contribute in your life positively and the negatively based on your relationship or your commitment with what you are doing to reduce a crime can take place through rules and the regulation not through religion that particular environment most to have a rules and regulation that Govern them which people will like to follow so in exception with that I don't think that religion can reduce a crime

Religion can reduce the crime of man only when he follows the religion, starts living according to the rules which are there in religion and caste. Religion never leads people to evil ways, well people indulge in evil deeds under the shadow of religion. Many such persons I have seen are followers of masked religions, they are basically indulging in iniquity and adultery. That person will be a follower of religion only when he obeys the rules and regulations of the society and caste of the religion and it is never possible to live properly. Only by following religion and living life will it be possible to spread properly in the society.

As our faces are different so are our hearts, the way we think and how we see things, we shouldn't use "religion" as a key to stop something that have been their since from the beginning of this world, the thing is humans are not afraid of God almighty just because they don't see the maker face to face, instead they (humans) fear the police, politicians and anybody that have the power to change things around them.
Haven't you seen where things get missing inside church, in the house of God during service, laptops, phones, money you name it, that alone would tell that religion can't put a stop to crime and other crazy behavior we humans possess.

It is an interesting discussion to have, because there are people out there in different societies who believe religion by itself can stop crime and bad things from happening by its own, I recall from by religion classes than even in the Bible it is written that those scourges against humanity are not supposed to disappear before the beginning of the era of peace brought to us by God himself. It is similar to when Christ said that humanity will always have the poor for us to be charitable to, while his time of Earth was limited during his first arrival in the middle east.
Just because of the fact government may not be able to control crime completely, it does not mean we are supposed to give up into reaching a better society by enforcing laws and at the same time tackling the roots and causes of increasing criminality in our countries.

It is a very complex and sensitive topic, the kind of is required to study and research about before giving a broad and open opinion.

Those who live following religion and society are basically real people, except the followers of religion they always indulge in bad deeds. And there are many people who could not dedicate their lives properly despite being fundamentally against religion. It is the responsibility of every citizen to follow the rules of religion and live life as a real human being in the society.

The truth is that religion has failed to have the effects that it was made for because religion is now a tool of making money in the hands of those in leadership position in religious circle so it has lost its purpose in society

I am agreed with your these words which are describing all things related to religion while mostly peoples are having troubling life due these leaders which are covering things through religion and making money for themselves and making our lives more problematic because I personally watch many those were not as before entering into this but now having luxurious lives.
Even we can bring changes through education, but now this is also completely changed and things re entering which are covering religious affairs into this for their own sack and own power.

Religion is the constitution of human life. But the problem is that the human mind is attracted to negative actions and many cannot deny the attraction. As a result the world is anarchy fights and murders. So we all should live our lives by following our religion. So that we can make our world beautiful and make the next generation a beautiful place to live.

Religion is definitely important for human life. The necessity of religion to establish oneself as a real person. Without the touch of religion, human sense of humanity does not work, so he must stick to religion. Actually anarchy and war in the world is basically a power struggle, the dominant countries are killing humanity in such a despicable way, bypassing religion to show the influence of their own power. So I think humanistic religion is very much needed in the world where religion can be kept in high place and people can live and stand by each other in times of danger.

I think I'd say we have failed by making the world a better place, they use religion to make money at the same time is now a competition, bragging right, who's the best. That alone won't make things to be the way is suppose to be, nobody care anymore politics that wasn't in the mix now plays a bigger role in it.
I wouldn't blame those who have the issue of stealing and other crimes because the heads in all religions are corrupt and it would be very hard to amend things to be the way is suppose to be. I feel religion is suppose to keep the society in check but it seems the society is out of control.

I will blame the government party behind the society being out of control. Because it is the job of the government to keep every society regulated and disciplined.

If a person engages in theft or other immoral activities due to his poverty, then it must question the governance system of the government. How has he created a system of governance where the people of his country are forced to steal or commit immoral acts due to want? It is the duty of every government to fulfill the basic needs of the people.

Not every religion condones theft or immorality. Religion teaches people morality, there is no religion in the world that condones immorality. The government should also take care of the religious aspects. It is the responsibility of the government to ensure that every nation can practice its religion and that there is no hindrance in the practice of religion. So I will blame the government party for the society becoming uncontrollable.

Before we start blaming the government let's not forget that we have many individuals who don't have the appetite to make a living by doing something good for themselves but going about causing problems for innocent people, that shouldn't be on the government because in as much as they try to create job opportunities some still find it difficult to get involved, but when the government doesn't think more of the people that's when we blame them.
I agree with you, the government don't look into that aspect of taking care of the religion system, if they have their eyes on it by putting things in other I believe things would be on track but instead the government make sure their ways of handling things politically are being introduced in the religion sector, partially they're at fault.

Why religion can not reduce the crime rate in our society? Its highest is not to believe in religion wholeheartedly. In the present era, everyone observes religion to show people, everyone observes religious festivals of joy, but only a few people observe all the festivals of hardship. In all religions it is more or less said to benefit others, only not to take bribes, not to oppress people. But these things happen more in today's world. The word religion means peace, not oppression. All the directions that are needed to make human life full of peace are in the religious texts. Religion will not teach right and wrong by the hand of any man. You should read the religion and understand it yourself and walk on the right path.

If a person is completely against religion then he can never indulge in bad deeds, but nowadays people are always corrupt under the shadow of religion. That's why they can't stop doing bad things despite being against religion because they live in the society under the mask of good people but people always harm people. The first condition of religion is to establish truth in the society, but despite this, no one is preaching at present, everyone is just masking the truth and resorting to lies. Because of such people the present day society is being corrupted the most.

Nowadays we all give priority to our own interests. No one notices that we are oppressing others by giving priority to our own interests. Actually it is not called religion or society. We don't bribe to increase our wealth, we extort to increase our money. We prioritize our own interests and try to earn extra money so that we can live comfortably. But are we actually at peace? Can illegal money keep us at peace?

The more money you earn, the more you will need and the more tension will increase. (Expend as much as you earn) There is such a saying that you will never be able to run yourself in a planned way. Because people in this country have the most greed and desire due to which the number of good people in the society is less, such people are the most indulged in evil deeds under the shadow of religion.  And are busy making more money illegally, because the more they earn, the happier they can be. This kind of information wrong meaning cannot bring happiness to people, only religion is peace.

Illegal money can never give peace.  Illegal things always bring unrest.  There are thousands of examples in society.  If you earn 1 dollar illegally, you have to lose 100 dollars.  This is why it is always said that religion is the root of happiness.

If you conduct yourself properly through religious discipline, you will certainly be much better off. But most of the society is busy with its reverses and bypassing the religious rules to make money like itself. However, proper education through religious institutions in a systematic manner can definitely lead a person in the right direction and many others will be inspired to be guided in the right way by its influence.

Another thing I have realized recently is that - currently a large number of religious institutions have been established and the infrastructure of religious institutions has been developed a lot. The proportion of truly religious people has not increased but has decreased which can be understood by looking at the current anarchy. In other words people talk a lot of religious words but secretly many people go by the side of religion which is a scary thing.

That's actually the opposite, they're teaching what they think is right and it is passed on to the new generations. That's why if you're into a religion and it doesn't teach you good, maybe you are in the wrong one. But wait, that's where the debate starts when everyone is calling their religion the right ones. And those that are bad and does bad things to the others, they can be both, religious or not.

It's not with religion when someone does bad things. I believe that it helps people to change but not everyone is willing to change even with their help. That's why it's best for everyone to just believe what you are believing is good and will help you make a better person. Because someone can be religious but you can see that there's no change with their ugly attitudes. And that's why we can't blame it always to the organization or religion that they're part of because in the end, it's still us that does things and whether we're affiliated or not, we're the only one that decides what we do.

It is quite obvious that religion teaches us about good conducts and the best way to help one another, it also teaches unity and morality, but the truth is that we are human being with diverse minds and evil hearts, yes, religion can teach us all of this but how far can we practice them, how far do we fear what we believe on, how far do we respect our God. it might also interest you to know@op that most people go to church for the sake of formality and not because they want to go. Some even go to church because their wife and children asked them to go to church. their religion can reshape mankind but cannot reshape crime because even in the churches there are also crimes here and there, incessant killing in the society is also carried out but religious believers which invariably implies that we don't practice what we believe on. There is this saying that you can force the horse to the water but can't force the horse to drink water which shows that we Don't practice the ethics of religion. however, morality and religion are two different things, there are people who do not believe in any religion, but their hearts are pure, so religion can curb the excesses of people but can't stop them from committing crime because it lies in our heart not to commit crime.

Religion believes in the country is not bad ,every religion believes teaches good purity and how to go back to God  in many directions,but in every religion we have good and bad side,which you might not know as a new member till you became old in the system,even christian,a church I know so well in my place the church if you are not among wiches and wizard no promotion before you will be promoted you must be among the wiches,now as a new member this can never come in your mined till you keep on growing ,the very moment you will know the way the act,you will start adjusting your self and when they notice you have know their style and you want to run they will come for you spiritually,what are my saying the bad side of every religion is the problem we have today in this country,not the good side of it ,just as you said that why can't here be a good place since all religions are teaching about good ,bear it in mind that human being has good side and bad side ,(positive and nagative) that's how all religions are ,is still not going to be easy,since human are still operating in all this temples

I had a wonderful experience that is reminded me by reading your words. A person in my area participated in the local elections. Once with me in the area after finishing the afternoon religious prayer went to the market area and I also went to the market for my work. I went there and saw that man campaigning for his vote to the market people. And there too he took those people and finished the prayer again in the afternoon.

There are three types of people living in the society. Number 1, a man does something very serious about his own needs. Number 2, such people work against their own will at the persuasion of family society and friends. And number 3 is everyone is working so what if I don't what will they think, people with this attitude.
Now most people are busy showing to save their own interests. For this reason even after there are so many mosques and temples in the society unjust oppression does not go away from people. So if everyone nurtures religious values ​​in their morals (Category 1) then maybe it will be possible to solve these problems.

Religion is individual with each person. The thing that a person believes is his religion. See the definition of 'religion' - https://www.dictionary.com/browse/religion.

This means that, if a person goes to a certain church, and expresses that he is part of the religion of that church, and if he tries to actually do what the church teaches, he is still a member of what he does... his own personal church.

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There are a lot of religious people. There are too many. Does this make any of them better people? F@#$ no. Christians are some of the most obnoxious worthless bastards imaginable. They have either no personality or a completely rotten personality. And they confuse their own hatred with love. They are full of evil.

Regards,

-Joseph Van Name Ph.D.

Though your entitled to your opinion but why looking at this very topic by op you should consider this in all angles purpose of religion in our society has failed not just christian for me I am not a religious bigot to denounce any one and accept others, no matter what the religion name is they have failed their purpose as they dive into politics and  their objective to be used by politicians the call doctrine are no more in  place, to teach the people but contrary and deceiving the citizens with many lies to gain crowed and please the mind if politicians instead of whom they believe to be their creator.

Ordinarily religion would have correct many error in society but due to this failure the errors keep rising on daily basis despite the increase on different religion infrastructure and membership, though some may say it's individual difference to change but change start from the head been the religious leaders which in turn will impact to the followers that is why judgement will start from this houses of so called religion.

In the present day people follow religion and follow bad actions.  Because from the present to the past you notice there were many people who were successively carriers of religion, and they used religion properly. But coming to the present time you notice that now people follow religion and don't believe in religion. They are the most noticeable of the society in the number of people who indulge in vices, politics has been the only influence of this situation from the present time to the past time. Because people from different professions have come to politics and they have entered various evils targeting the followers of religion.

Basically, religion is a place of peace. If religion was followed in the meeting, then there would not be quarrels, fights, conflicts, quarrels etc. in this world. Now in present time people are only follower of religion, do not believe in religion itself there are some people who are always deceiving people. Therefore, if all these people had lived on the path of religion, then surely everyone would have lived as good people in this world and would not have wronged each other.

Human morality has reached extremes in modern times. There are many people who are using religion as a tool to get some slight improvement or financial advantage in their respective positions or workplaces. As a result many people are angry with religiously sensitive people. Due to this the real religious people living in the society are deprived and subjected to outrage. So I think today most people believe in religion but they do not follow the ethics and religious values ​​of religion.

Nowadays people are going away from religion, a person who does not take shelter of falsehood can never be a follower of religion. So now if you observe now you will surely see that in present day mass people are only taking shelter of lies, because when faced with a danger they try hard enough to survive by taking shelter of lies. In past times people were against religion they believed man to man but now people have come away from this practice due to which most of them are deprived of religion and indulge in evil. Nowadays, every day some bad news is published on social media.

In fact, in today's age people are not doing bad things by following religion, but they are hiding themselves under the shadow of religion to cover up those bad things.  Earlier people who believed in religion could not listen to any bad comments in the name of religion.  But now people have realized that religion is the weak point of man.  So some bad people in the society always call religion as a means of hiding their bad deeds.

We cannot live in a society and expect the people not to engage in one or more religious practice and some can be so attached to these religions and becomes fanatics, we cant blame everyone for whatever action or decision they have taken or made for themselves, such happens as long as we are having a gathering that constitute a number of people of different background, tolerance is the only key to ensure everyone live in peace all together.

To me religion is never an issue of any bad things happing to the country today,all religions have good intentions to achieve a goal in their own way,but is human that turn it in their own way to look like the so call religion is bad ,but all religions talk about the purity of GOd the creator ,so I don't and I can never believe that religion is bad.

The dividend of religion in this planet earth has caused alot of problems and I ask a question will religious fight ever end? I don't think this issue will ever have an end because it is even said in the bible, Jesus Christ even made his disciples understand that they would face more problem than he has faced. Some days ago we were having a religious conversation of Christianity then a Muslim man that was close to us listening to what we were saying came to join us then he asked a question that what will happen as a Christian if someone kills your child and somebody responded by saying justice maybe sending the person to prison and he laughed he said in their own religion you kill mine I kill yours that Muslims don't forget things now the man asked him what is the hope of eternity of the Muslims he could not answer he walked away.

Everybody is entitled to believe and follow what they wish as there can never be only one religion or reunion of religions but the question is what is your hope of eternity.

I agree with you, people sees  religion as a place where they can run to cover themselves after committing an offence or doing something very bad. I'm not supposed with the way how we practice religion and yet crime is still on the high,  religion don't change everyone totally that accept it. In religion you will found the bad and the good people, and people who do bad believe that when they do bad and run into their religion practice they will be forgiven of their sin. What I'm trying to say is that religion welcomes the good and the bad and I don't think because of religion the world will become better.

It is very true that nowadays people are taking shelter of lies day by day where earlier people used to believe even people of different religions. People are gradually moving away from the shackles of religion and becoming more sensitive to expediency than principles. Nowadays people are abandoning their conscience and taking more unfair advantage. But many good people are still in the world but their influence is diminishing day by day or they are not allowed to stand up.

You are very correct the only reason we are experiencing crisis in the world today is because we are not living by the teachings of our religion, a lot of people only say this is there religion but are not following the rules and regulations of there faith.
A good number of our religion believes in orderliness, fairness and justice if we all should abide by our religion there will be fairness and justice which we result to peace in the world, some people thinks region is the cause of the problem we are facing in the world but is not true, people who are practicing there religion very well will never engage in anything that will be against there religion, in fact religion is the reason will still a little peace in the world today because a good number of people are abiding by the laws of there religion.

Every religion gives the message of peace.No religion talks about riots and corruption.If everyone follows their religion in a good way, there will be no more chaos in the world.All the conflicts in the world are man-made. Humans are creating all the differences.

I agree with you. Some people use religion as an excuse to hide from bad things they have done. I do not like how people practice religion sometimes. Even though many people follow a religion bad things still happen. Religion does not automatically make someone good person. And you are right we will find good and bad people in any religion. Some people think that if they do something bad they can just go back to their religion and be forgiven. And you are right here also religion accepts both good and bad people and I also do not think religion alone can make world better place.

Everyone can live a right life if they follow religion, people create differences. For example, due to not observing religion properly, violence and hatred have arisen among people. Especially because of politics and people have done massive conflicts, fights, riots, riots, as far as possible, if all people live by clinging to religion as in the past, then these fights, violence and hatred will not exist.  People will treat each other well and respect each other so religion is the only key to proper living system.

The practice of individual religion is not the solution to our problem in my perspective, I also believe that religion is a practice that teaches way of good conduct,peace and harmony, but the problem is from the personal interest and greediness of religion clerics.
 
This problem is the main thing that harbor killing and all sort of unimaginable crimes in our society,the religion clerics add their own personal interest to religious sayings unknowingly to their followers.some clerics are very greedy and many terrorist use this opportunity to grant the clerics request and give them material thing to make them preach thing that are not part of religion sayings. 
   if the religion clerics would reduce greed and stop adding their personal interest to religion,the world might be a better place for mankind.

Religion father a whole lot of people cutting across the sexes, the onus is that one day they will make heaven, people tend to rush to various religious centers for mentorship believing that such mentorship will pave way to solving their social, mental, spiritual, financial and all manner of problems. In there various conclusion they see religion as the opium of the masses.

It depends on which religion and how those who practice it interpret it. Some interpret it in a way that suits the narrative that will support their bias and hatred and others interpret it in a way that benefits their neighbour.

It is a brutal truth that religion guides us to the right path but still people are led astray. Again it is seen more and more that religious institutions are increasing day by day in all parts of the world yet people's sense of conscience is dying day by day. So we should believe in our religion and follow it as well as encourage children in religious matters to build a world of peace for our future generations.

When a person is a follower of a religion he will refrain from unique bad deeds.  A normal person will eventually turn to the word if he will stop lying. Betrayal cannot be done, so whenever people move towards truth, religion must be transported. When people develop pride, they immediately look down on unique people. Such misbehavior will certainly cause quarrels among people.  To avoid them, it is most important to be against religion.

In terms of religious matters, the most important thing is that we don't go off the path that has been determined, good or otherwise, there needs to be clear and educational guidance in the context of the religion we follow and that depends on each person who believes in it.

Don't be decisive by religion. People use religion as a cover-up for crimes they commit. Religion doesn't make someone commit less crime, envy less, be jealous,  stop killing, or have hatred towards their relations or neighbor. People use the name of religion to dump, rape, scam and later ask for forgiveness for the crime they committed. When being caught in the act, they begin to accuse everything on the devil when they did the sinful act with their right sense.

I don't know so much about other religions, but I believe all religions hate bad deeds and ask to do good deeds. In our religion bad deeds are hated and good deeds are said to be done. Now those who do not follow the rules of religion are mainly seen to engage in criminal activities in the society. Those who follow the rules of religion always try to do good deeds. So society does not commit crimes due to religion. We all have to follow the rules of our religion, we have to do good deeds, refrain from criminal acts.

I also learned about some religions such as Buddhism (Southern Buddhism, Northern Buddhism), Christianity, Islam...Most of their Bibles instruct people to do good, help others...it can be said that they educate people to become better, no religion advises people to do evil. But the truth is that not everyone who is religious will follow the teachings of the bible exactly. Many people just use religion to cover up their crimes and that is human behavior, religion cannot be blamed.

Religion is not bad, it all comes from human thoughts and behaviors because human nature is selfish, jealous, greedy...

@fugebtc, you just nailed it religion isn't bad is people in it that's bad, if we all follow religion teaching and practices the world would have been a better place. But nature is extremely wicked and bittered, to each other that's why we don't have peace and harmony in our society.  Some evil ones uses religion to steal from the people instead of helping the people, our society is full of fake pastors using charm to stealing from their members, religion is a mess in this generation.

The foundation of religious discipline is important to you, whichever religion you follow.

Stop it with all your religions. They are not making you better people. And no, you are not going to heaven for being religious. Religion is just a pathetic cover up for your heinous bad behavior. Stop it now.

In Christ,

-Joseph Van Name Ph.D.

If you look up the broad definition of "religion," you will find that whatever the lifestyle of any person is, that is his religion. So, stop posting your beliefs if you want to help stop religion.

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Because religion is not a panacea, why should it do something? Intelligence and common sense - that's what can! Note that those people who go to prison abruptly begin to believe in God, they think this will atone for sin, no! Faith will not help, the brain will help, so as not to reach crimes.

I believe that people should stop acting like such asinine pieces of s@#$. Do you disagree with me?

In Christ,

-Joseph Van Name Ph.D.

Some people can't do that because they don't act that way. But it would be nice if those who DO act that way would stop... essentially changing their religion.

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Religion tells the way of life of people. Which path will be good and which path will be bad. But it is very difficult to change people in this way because it only controls people but not self control. But those who are self-disciplined can only do good. And the cultured people are in control. Before believing in God you have to believe that there is God in you only then can you remove sin from society, otherwise it is not possible.

Yeah, your statement are very clear because you defined it all, there are two way in this world is either you are with the devil or with God, the way of God is through religion, no any religion is specific but it should be any act of worship, because any religion we think of have their guidelines on how we are to live our lives with out making any sins and again a religious person been any kind lives comfortable than non religious person because a non religious person is been guided by the devil and that is why they are likely facing depression in the life non matter how rich or famous they are they will be filling depressed, and those people are the one that normally causing nuisance in the community.

I think religion is just a benchmark to ignite a sense of responsibility in society. Still, the ability to differentiate between right and wrong has to do with our self-decisions and choices in our day-to-day activities. Crimes are just a reflection of one's innermost thoughts and fantasies which can be seen or noticed from the way a person acts or talks around people. Religion can't reduce or stop crime!!! they are just mere words, I mean even police are finding it difficult to reduce crime not to talk more of words that many criminals will find worthless in their enslaved brains. 

That is why I keep telling people that some government are not ready to fight corruption in some societies, because many people are using religion to commit all those crimes and they will go free from the crimes they committed in the societies because they know that they will get support from their religion members in the government position.  If government can remove religion from the society, it will go a long way to reduce corruption, killing, envy, rape, inflation and hatred in the society because it will make people to united to do the right thing that will bring progress and development to the society, but I know it will not be easy for government to adopt it to the society, but if truly government is ready to eliminate religion from the society, I don't think there is anything that will stop government not to achieve it.

And if government continues to allow religion in the society, it will make people to continue to commit crimes and go free in the society because religion has entered judiciary, which is the hope of every human beings in the society to get justice.

Note that in the US since freedom of religion is expressed in Amendment One to the Constitution, it would take a Constitutional Convention to change it.

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If we are to make a good practice of our religion, then we must go by the dictates of what it gives as instructions, i don't think there is a religious practice that will go against the unity and harmony of the people living together in peace, but many were only been faced by the wrong teachings and got the wrong practice of their religion in place, there is nothing bad in everyone making practice of their own individual religion in other to make a peaceful coexistence among the people.

Dude. Nobody follows their religion. They only pretend to follow their religion. Churches are dangerous places. They know absolutely nothing about repentance. Have you ever seen a church openly repent of sin? NO! They would never do this because they cannot admit to wrong at all. This means that they hate Jesus.

In Christ,

-Joseph Van Name Ph.D.

Every religion gives freedom to practice other religions and every religion aims to show light to mankind. But we humans do not follow any religion. We sell our religion to our greed, envy and self-interest. I can guarantee that if a person practices any religion he will not engage in any immoral act.

You are wrong. The fact is that EVERYBODY follows their religion. The point is that their religion is what they do, not the formal church they attend. EVERYBODY does what he does in life because that is his religion.

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People do not follow the religion that they claim when they go to church and on their bumper stickers. People do not follow Jesus Christ. People should at least be honest about this.

In Christ,

-Joseph Van Name Ph.D.

Actually, following Jesus Christ is easy. Why? Because when Jesus died on the cross, he took the punishment for ALL (what does 'all' mean? All means ALL.) imperfection, thereby bringing back perfection to all things universally.

The imperfection of you and I not seeing perfection in all things is covered by the work that Jesus did on the cross.

This means that it is much easier to be saved than to not be saved. And being saved is following Jesus Christ. All one needs to know is that Jesus saves. All the following or not following religions has to do with the strength of faith rather than the existence of faith.

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The issues of crimes in society is not by the religion and even thoughts we’ve to include the religion do think they listen to what some people preach, because if to say people are considered the religion can know go commits what the crime or destroy the society with bad characters, since every religion give freedom, but there some that they don’t know where to classify their self means that they’re not participating in any religion.

Because anyone that have religion and always proud of his religion will know go and joined crime activities that will even lead to destroy people’s in society religion always talk about the good deeds not the bad ones is only people that don’t fellow the are end of creating a crime to society.

This should not be said of all in Christ religion as many are very conscious of their religion and follow Jesus Christ and obey his teachings.

That's why Christian religion says that "pride goes before the fall." If you don't want to fail in the long run, don't get proud about your religion. Rather, stay humble and be saved.

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We all know that religious people are some of the most angry miserable evil people imaginable. They have no clue how to repent. And they will go to HELL. They are horrendous. If you say you are a Christian, I will say you are a miserable sinner who has not repented but is merely using Christianity as a cover for SIN. And Jesus hates that more than anything. If Christians really cared about making the world a better place, they would have not hated me to the point where I am completely and utterly convinced that humans are morally incapable of preventing the next lab made pandemic so I should not even try at all to implement the simplest and most effective solution at preventing such a pandemic. That is truly deplorable.

In Christ,

-Joseph Van Name Ph.D.

The reason why our society is still this calm is because of religion, almost all the reason in the world preach about peace and they also preach about you not doing evil to another human, a lot of people are following this preaching and that is why we are having this little peace and calmness in our society.
If there's no religion the world will become worst than it is now, the heart of men is evil.
If we all obey the teachings of our different religion the world will be a better place for everyone.

Thank you for showing us all that you are religious.     8)

The question of why religion guides people to the right path but does not reduce the crime rate in our society is very profound.  Religious education and belief change the inner self of a person but the root cause of crime is not religious disregard or practice.  Social, economic, psychological factors also influence the occurrence of crime.  In addition, poverty, lack of education and employment create instability and criminal tendencies among people.  Basically, the combination of religion and other influential elements of society should form a healthy society. In this case, along with religious morality, other aspects such as education, elimination of discrimination, law and order etc. should be given equal importance.