The function of religion ?

[loveslfc]

The functions of religion is to make people believe in God, love your neighbours, preach peace and unite people.

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[Porosh]

The functions of religion is basically showing the direction of your life, which way you have to go and which way you have to avoid. To believe in Almighty and also remember Almighty.

[Sophia Audley]

The whole notion religion was thought up as a means to control society, where as politics has simply evolved into a means to control society. To begin with politics had rather good intentions id say. There for they differ, so for you to use my response in answer to your question of whether following a political party makes you a moron and turning that into us being on the same page because you can be part of a religion but not condone many of its actions is sly and aggravating.

If you believe, in a man made fiction, created to control other human beings, your a moron, its simple as that man, please try to explain your view point without twisting my words this time.

[Felic43]

There shouldn't be religion when jesus christ is on earth he only preach the gospel without telling anybody this will be your religion he preach among the Jewish when jesus vhriat is leaving to heaven he have his 12 disciple he told them to preach the gospel they move from one place to the other to preach the gospel...

[pat4cryptoreal]

I do not doubt the efficacy of science in different aspect of our life but there are several things happening around us that since cannot give accurate explanation to it which is a pointer that there is a supernatural force that is behind such occurrence.

[jimmyvasquez27]

Sources of life guidance for individuals and groups Arranging the ordinance of human relationships with God and human beings with menMerupakan demands on the principle of right or wrong Guidance expressing a sense of togetherness Guidance of beliefs Guidance of existence Disclosure of aesthetics (beauty) Guidance of recreation and entertainment Providing identity to man as a people of a religion.

[Toby Benson]

Well, there are people who have been clinically dead and came back.

Common reports: Floating above dead body and surrounding environment. Tunnel of light.

[deshan1]

People need something to believe in. Religion guides people to right things and define the consequences of our works.

[ic21]

I'm an atheist and have the following standpoint:

 - All religions are hoaxes, making people belive in non-existing gods.

Religions serve the following purposes:

1. Making people have some comfort in their lives, having something else than themselves to pray to and look up to. This is mostly culturrally dependent,
most people adhere to the religion were they grew up, and what was ingrained in them from early childhood.

2. To keep uneducated people in control.

3. To keep power and control in a central position.

If religion was all about love to your God, and it was all a mental thing, there would be no need for churches, and all accessories that goes with a religion.

It's sad that a God-fearing man goes regularily to church to get closer to his maker. He could've been just as close to his God in his couch at home.

Many religious entities collect money, and are rather greedy, there are internal battles about power and control, just think of the Vatican.

I think it's rather sad that in 2012, so many people put their belief in something that doesn't exist. You may pray, and you may feel that your prayers were heard,
and things turn for the better in your life, but most of the time, the prayers are futile, and the only one that can change anything in your life is yourself.

States need to separate themselves from religion, and any religious society needs to take care of itself. Many religious societies does serve a good purpose in their
municipality, and there's nothing wrong with that,  and I do respect anyone that has their faith, but I don't think there's any God of any sorts, and people need to take
responsibility for their own lives.

Will the earth ever come to a point where people are so educated that they understand that science is the only true answer, and that everything else is fairytales ?

As much as I respect any Christian or any devoted religious person from any other religion (I may think his belief is a joke, but I would never say it to his face to force a confrontation in disrespect), I don't think any religions should have any special protection under the law.

Part of the problem is that Religion is so ingrained into the culture of most countries, that many people don't even question it.

Education will put the power in the hands of the people to learn about the world around them, and will remove the power of the leaders of their religion over them.

As an atheist, I don't think your religion defines whether you're a good person or not, that's more down to the person itself, and the values you've been taught in your upbringing, and what you've learned through your education.

Now, with the recent uproar about the 'Innocence of Muslims'-movie, people shouldn't get upset about it. If they don't like it, they should simply ignore it, and don't speak of it. Killing people, making riots etc. and claim that it's because of this movie, this is not right. People are always responsible for what they do.

If I were a Christian, and someone mocked my religion and called me a religious fool, and I got angry and burned down their house, that would be completely unacceptable by me, and I would need to take the full penalty for it.

Some people say we should not provoke 'islam' through cartoons, movies etc. And this may seem like the easy way out. But what if we continously bombarded Islam with this material, would they keep rioting every day of the week, every week, every month and every year, or would they finally sit down and say to themselves: "I'm tired of fighting, I can be a good muslim, no matter what any people say about my religion".

Islam doesn't receive more goodwill by having it's followers react like this, I would think most sivilized people just seeing this for what it is; outright crimes. Also I think a lot of the people that we see rioting in the streets, are only using this movie as an excuse for acting like they do.

Is there a single other Religion in the world were the members would've reacted like this over a movie ?

What do you all think ?

It is so sad to know that  there are still a lot of people who do not believe in God despite of the sacrifice he did to redeem the whole world. We are so ungrateful to God. Instead of turning to Him,  we question His power and existence. There will be no earth,  no mankind,  nothing will exist if there is no God. Everything started in Him and will return to Him. Jesus loves us. He wants us to be save and be with Him in eternity.

[criza]

The function of religion 'supposedly' is to strengthen ones faith and belief - truly, it is good. But I think, it causes problem too. Religion is a way in which people worship their 'God'. They practice rituals that is a part of their many ways to serve their 'God'. It teaches and spread the word of their 'God'. However, despite bringing good intentions and good practices, still, there are problems with it - it brings separation due to misunderstanding and confusion. Religion creates many ways on how to worship God differently, in which in turn, causes confusion to others. They practice rituals too and practices that differs from another religion that also result to a large gap. And religion teaches the same word of their same God but have different interpretations with it. Hence, the 'function' of religion may not significantly fulfill its true function. 

[Juliantokhens]

religion is an absolute provision for every human being. man without religion does not mean anything. religion teaches lifestyle to achieve prosperity for person and society. and more clearly religion is the way for his people to know who the creator.agama also introduce the way of goodness and truth of fellow human beings.

[batch2016]

Religion is the relationship between you and God.the function of religion is for to mature and develop the characteristic of Jesus Christ.and to trust God for everything.

[Spifo]

Religion is for those who believe, and its function is to inspire, encourage, and justify that faith.

[af_newbie]

Religion is a social engineering technique used mainly to enslave, exploit and control uneducated groups of people.

Science, technology, progressive social values are incompatible with religion.

Religion is a historical relic. It should be studied to make sure we don't allow this ideology in the future.

People who follow ANY religion are not free.  They cannot think for themselves.
They are wasting their lives.  Not that it matters, they do not make any significant contributions to society anyway.

[lotfiuser]

religion is the communication between you and God  and its a good thing and its only created for the better for you but all religions got edited by humans only islam isnot edited

[AmoreJaz]

religion is the communication between you and God  and its a good thing and its only created for the better for you but all religions got edited by humans only islam isnot edited

whoa there Albert Einstein!!
 religious beliefs are each persons decisions and they are individual as each has a different level of belief!
so for the fact  a person  communicates or not with who ever they believe in, as a god is strictly personal
if that is good or bad, it is not up to us to judge "so please try to stay away from labelling people or apply generalizations on anyone"!
as you say all religions got edited except your fucking islam?
wrong asshole!
who wrote your crap fables and bullshit ideas of it ?  when and who printed it on paper or is it written on donkey cock skin?
still written by hand of man ,and nothing can be proven from any religious belief!  so please get off your high horse and realize that because i drink whiskey every day of the year and have wild sex with anything and everything i can in public to show everyone my cock i am not the sinner! who ever judges me is the sinner!
and if your islam judges me as a sinner then your islam can kiss my ass! along with every one else that try to say your religion is the only good and all others are bad!

shove your entitled ideas of islam  where the sun dont shine "for normal people"

[Kogs]

I'm an atheist and have the following standpoint:

 - All religions are hoaxes, making people belive in non-existing gods.
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What do you all think ?

It is so sad to know that  there are still a lot of people who do not believe in God despite of the sacrifice he did to redeem the whole world. We are so ungrateful to God. Instead of turning to Him,  we question His power and existence. There will be no earth,  no mankind,  nothing will exist if there is no God. Everything started in Him and will return to Him. Jesus loves us. He wants us to be save and be with Him in eternity.

It is so sad to know that there are still a lot of people who DO believe in God even there is not one provable evidence to his existence.

Religions usually pray acceptance, unity, peace and so on but (some of) their followers are the first one who break their own rules when it comes to people who don't fit into their view of life, like witches in the past (or even now in some places in Africa), or their enemy number one homosexual people. There is enough prove here in some of the topics in Politics & Society where different sexual preferences or stuff like that is discussed. Mostly it's religious people who are against those life styles with the reason it's a sin or other bullshit.

As long as religions don't accept different life styles of different people without attacking them, they are completely worthless to me.

I don't have any problems with people who want to believe in god or in any other supernatural being even when I think it's stupid.
I usually only have problems with missionaries and people with very limited views of other peoples life styles. Interestingly mostly religious people (of course not only them) fall into this category. Where is the acceptance here? Where is the unity here?

I don't need a god to make moral decisions or to know what is right and wrong
  - do you think if people never invented the concept of gods or religions, people would all be psychopaths and would not follow any rules?
I don't need a god to live a happy and fulfilled life
  - do you think if people never invented the concept of gods or religions, everybody would constantly thinking how fucked up his life is?
I don't need a god to whatever else religious people think they need a god to be able to master their lifes.
 
Everything religious people think is only possible with the help of god, can be done as good if not better also without a god.
It's just arrogant to think that only religions have the one and only answer for everything.

[AmoreJaz]

I'm an atheist and have the following standpoint:

 - All religions are hoaxes, making people belive in non-existing gods.
...
What do you all think ?

It is so sad to know that  there are still a lot of people who do not believe in God despite of the sacrifice he did to redeem the whole world. We are so ungrateful to God. Instead of turning to Him,  we question His power and existence. There will be no earth,  no mankind,  nothing will exist if there is no God. Everything started in Him and will return to Him. Jesus loves us. He wants us to be save and be with Him in eternity.

It is so sad to know that there are still a lot of people who DO believe in God even there is not one provable evidence to his existence.

Religions usually pray acceptance, unity, peace and so on but (some of) their followers are the first one who break their own rules when it comes to people who don't fit into their view of life, like witches in the past (or even now in some places in Africa), or their enemy number one homosexual people. There is enough prove here in some of the topics in Politics & Society where different sexual preferences or stuff like that is discussed. Mostly it's religious people who are against those life styles with the reason it's a sin or other bullshit.

As long as religions don't accept different life styles of different people without attacking them, they are completely worthless to me.

I don't have any problems with people who want to believe in god or in any other supernatural being even when I think it's stupid.
I usually only have problems with missionaries and people with very limited views of other peoples life styles. Interestingly mostly religious people (of course not only them) fall into this category. Where is the acceptance here? Where is the unity here?

I don't need a god to make moral decisions or to know what is right and wrong
  - do you think if people never invented the concept of gods or religions, people would all be psychopaths and would not follow any rules?
I don't need a god to live a happy and fulfilled life
  - do you think if people never invented the concept of gods or religions, everybody would constantly thinking how fucked up his life is?
I don't need a god to whatever else religious people think they need a god to be able to master their lifes.
 
Everything religious people think is only possible with the help of god, can be done as good if not better also without a god.
It's just arrogant to think that only religions have the one and only answer for everything.

very well said indeed! i am too sharp and blunt while i know i  could be more calm and get my point across better if i were calm, but i hate have to try to teach sheep "followers of any religion" how to follow. personally i think all "RELIGIOUS" people are weak minded and lack self esteem or they would be strong enough to relay on themselves to know the difference between right and wrong, but they prefer to lean on "religion"as a crutch and also a scapegoat!
but to say one is better then the other simply pisses me off!

[makked]

who the hell knows?

Religion is obviously a method to control the population, when the threat of jail or death wasn't enough the powers that be decided the threat of eternal damnation should keep the public from disobeying the almighty rule of whatever group of assholes are currently in power.

I get the desire to want to believe, with the world being what it is, its hard not to want to believe in a higher power, hoping that this is not it, that there is something better, that there IS a point to all of this.
I completely understand the need for faith, religion takes advantage of that and then tries to scare the shit out you to do what you're told or BURN IN HELL FOREVER.

Its the religious extremist nutcases that we have to be careful for. When religion turns to violence. When others try to force their beliefs onto you. When you start justifying your actions no matter how horrible because you are answering to a 'higher power' *cough* ex: Mike Pence ("Pence is a dangerous religious fanatic who supports Israel unconditionally because of his Christian Zionist ideology")

There is so much we don't understand, I believe there is a lot more going on in this Universe then we could even fathom but I seriously doubt we end up hanging out with our lost loved ones in the heavens with our wings and head rings.

The worst part is how religion manipulates and converts children, they fill you with so much BS, and of course at that age you completely believe every word of it.

[Ishiro5]

In the final analysis, i personally believe religion is meant to strengthen the human soul's personal relationship with God. Though the purpose has been miscontrued by majority of mankind over the years especially for selfish gains of a few. Religion is a means to an end and not an end in itself and the end here is God cos he is the beginning and the end.