RELIGION IT'S POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE IMPACT ON SOCIETY

[Pablo james]

In my society or the society at large Religion has been my basic concern, have been seeing the role religion is playing, the positive and negative aspect of it.

   So today you will tell me the positive and negative impact of it in your society or Environment.
  I go first,the positive aspect of it have seen is it brings unity among group of people, while d negative aspect of it is too much;
(1) so many people have been brain washed all in the name of Religion
(2) people spends more time to their religion which has affected so many lives
(3) people think religion will liberate them from poverty.

[mindrust]

Common sense > Religion

Religion was common sense when there was no internet. Back in the day the only way to transfer past experience to the future generations was via books. Now nobody reads physical books anymore because you can read everything from a pdf.

In 2021, you don't need somebody to tell you that drugs are bad. You can figure that out by yourself.

[franky1]

for me religion is just campfire stories to teach morals and laws.
using entertaining stories of magic and mystery to have those stories remembered.
where the ethos ethics and morals of the story are about peace. respect and not harming others

negatives are they people ignore the morals and ethics and use the stories to excuse them when they do harm by taking exerts out that allow them to be forgiven and thus able to do harm without taking responsibility

[Call me Fada]

Exactly @ op religion has caused and brought so much propaganda in our recent society many believers today argue blindly about religion and Christianity ✝️ there’s indeed a close thin line between the both and it is often confused for being outrightly religious, most pastors now try to extort money from their congregation all in the name of offerings and tithes once more again religion has brought more negativity and comparisons in our society than I can literally imagine.

[franky1]

most pastors now try to extort money from their congregation all in the name of offerings

pastor: my fellow flock.if you pray your life will become richer from god
flock: so then pastor you should pray more and stop asking us for money and ask god instead

it is funny how one side says pray to pay.. and actually means pay to pray

[af_newbie]

In my society or the society at large Religion has been my basic concern, have been seeing the role religion is playing, the positive and negative aspect of it.

   So today you will tell me the positive and negative impact of it in your society or Environment.
  I go first,the positive aspect of it have seen is it brings unity among group of people, while d negative aspect of it is too much;
(1) so many people have been brain washed all in the name of Religion
(2) people spends more time to their religion which has affected so many lives
(3) people think religion will liberate them from poverty.

Religions are remnants of tribal cultures.  They unite strangers in common beliefs and build immediate trust and co-operation based on those beliefs.

On the flip side, they provide plenty of reasons to hate, kill, or discriminate against 'others'; people with different worldviews or religions.

Religions are ancient myths still propagated today to extract wealth from unsuspected, gullible, mostly uneducated, and poor people.

They are evil and primitive at their core, as were the cultures that invented them.

Science has proven them wrong, over and over, but people still follow them as part of their cultural tradition, out of fear, or just by being intellectually handicapped or lazy.

[Cnut237]

Historically, religion has primarily been a method of social control. Partly as a tool to enhance cohesion, like a tribal affiliation, fighting together for the glory of your deity, as a proxy for a flag, or other symbol. Partly also as a tool to enforce good behaviour... god as an all-seeing all-knowing invisible policeman... if transgressions against the prescribed moral code are automatically punished in the afterlife, then you as a leader have less need to surveil your citizens.

Nowadays I suppose it's often a crutch or support mechanism for those who find scientific reality a little brutal and hard-edged... which can be helpful as well as harmful. Also, with the weight of history behind it, religion has a huge cultural element and importance as shared heritage.

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I think you posted that while I was typing my reply... basically what I was going to say above, although yours is less diplomatic (and more honest?)

[boyptc]

It unites yes for people who have the same belief.

But the negative of it is that it also divides people including those believers and non-believers. It creates a debate and makes one prove that he's on the right point and proves the other that they're not on the right point.

[yhiaali3]

Religion has been since ancient times and still is until now the most effective engine in society. Religion has a great role and an effective influence on the lives of people in all societies, from primitive societies to modern societies. People have always felt that they need religion to organize their lives.
The positive aspects of religion are that it organizes relationships between human beings in a way that calls for mercy, tolerance, and the spread of justice in society. It gives people permanent hope that their future will be better and this helps them to pursue their lives in peace and tranquility.
The bad side about religion is the control of clerics or extremists in every society over the lives of people and their intimidation of the consequences of anything they do, no matter how worthless it seems, they understand religion in their own way and do not allow anyone to contradict them and spread corruption and tyranny in the name of religion and turn people's lives into hell.

[af_newbie]

Religion has been since ancient times and still is until now the most effective engine in society. Religion has a great role and an effective influence on the lives of people in all societies, from primitive societies to modern societies. People have always felt that they need religion to organize their lives.
The positive aspects of religion are that it organizes relationships between human beings in a way that calls for mercy, tolerance, and the spread of justice in society. It gives people permanent hope that their future will be better and this helps them to pursue their lives in peace and tranquility.
The bad side about religion is the control of clerics or extremists in every society over the lives of people and their intimidation of the consequences of anything they do, no matter how worthless it seems, they understand religion in their own way and do not allow anyone to contradict them and spread corruption and tyranny in the name of religion and turn people's lives into hell.

Except that some people (not just religious conmen, aka. religious leaders) get the opposite from their religious teachings: lack of empathy for others (who don't agree on the same religious dogma, Sunni vs Shiites), intolerance (gays, transgender, women), injustice in society (women's reproductive rights, gay rights).

"With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil - that takes religion.”
― Steven Weinberg

[Mauser]

In my society or the society at large Religion has been my basic concern, have been seeing the role religion is playing, the positive and negative aspect of it.

   So today you will tell me the positive and negative impact of it in your society or Environment.
  I go first,the positive aspect of it have seen is it brings unity among group of people, while d negative aspect of it is too much;
(1) so many people have been brain washed all in the name of Religion
(2) people spends more time to their religion which has affected so many lives
(3) people think religion will liberate them from poverty.

Im my country religion plays no big role anymore. I remember my grandparents were going to church every week and praying every morning and night. With hindsight it was a good think to be honest. Religion helped them to live a better a life. But what I can't understand is how some people misuse religion for their personal gain and fight wars.

[jrrsparkles]

In my society or the society at large Religion has been my basic concern, have been seeing the role religion is playing, the positive and negative aspect of it.

   So today you will tell me the positive and negative impact of it in your society or Environment.
  I go first,the positive aspect of it have seen is it brings unity among group of people, while d negative aspect of it is too much;
(1) so many people have been brain washed all in the name of Religion
(2) people spends more time to their religion which has affected so many lives
(3) people think religion will liberate them from poverty.

Religion becomes a business so if you are smart make money out of it or simply go for other business and if you have lot of free time and lot of money and you don't know what to do with that then just go in the religious way so you can spend time and well as money for good cause. But if you are poor then you can become rich by working not by praying.

[BADecker]

@OP.

And the biggest religion these days is science.

If science had only maintained its original meaning of discovering and gather knowledge, science might not be a religion. But since science now includes placing faith in science theories - some of which will never be proven - science has become a religion.

Believing that something is fact, without the knowledge that it is fact... that is religion.

Let's take science back to the day of pure science... discovery and recording of what was discovered... so we can take it out of the category of religion.

[Smartvirus]

Religion has brought more controversies and division than we could see it today. Yeah it helps in making some people feel righteous just because, they behave in a certain way and build a good relationship with their religious figure hard but, what about the people around them. Everyone outside their religious circle becomes a case of sin or an infidel to them. This is really bad! It surprises me how they claim to worship one supreme being and yet, the doctrimes vary so much and I begin to wonder how come about all these doctrims?
Religion is suppose to be the thing that bonds our world but what we have today is far from what we expect it to be, its more of a divisor than a uniting factor of our society.

[Lordhermes]

Religion is the legalized scam in the present day society, it creates and helps to improve poor economy of a country, how can a religious member buys a factory and converted it to church where they will be praying for jobs.,that's insane and that can't fight poverty.

Believing that something is fact, without the knowledge that it is fact... that is religion.

Let's take science back to the day of pure science... discovery and recording of what was discovered... so we can take it out of the category of religion.

This reminds me of the study I was reading recently about a scientific research, I read that the oldest bone in the world was found in Ethiopia, Africa about 4.2 million years ago, Immediately, I compared that with christianity story of creation of Adam and Eve from a book which is about 2700 years old now.

The result: Religious stories are illusions and myths without proofs and facts, it's impossible to feed thousands of people with two fish and five loaves of bread, in Islam, there was a flying donkey that drove Mohammed to heaven., these stories can't happen and can't exist.

Science shows the actual proof and facts about the evolution of mankind and others to talk about.

[BADecker]

Religion is the legalized scam in the present day society, it creates and helps to improve poor economy of a country, how can a religious member buys a factory and converted it to church where they will be praying for jobs.,that's insane and that can't fight poverty.

Believing that something is fact, without the knowledge that it is fact... that is religion.

Let's take science back to the day of pure science... discovery and recording of what was discovered... so we can take it out of the category of religion.

This reminds me of the study I was reading recently about a scientific research, I read that the oldest bone in the world was found in Ethiopia, Africa about 4.2 million years ago, Immediately, I compared that with christianity story of creation of Adam and Eve from a book which is about 2700 years old now.

The result: Religious stories are illusions and myths without proofs and facts, it's impossible to feed thousands of people with two fish and five loaves of bread, in Islam, there was a flying donkey that drove Mohammed to heaven., these stories can't happen and can't exist.

Science shows the actual proof and facts about the evolution of mankind and others to talk about.

Except that there is no sound, scientific evidence that the earth is older than about 5,000 years. That is as far as we can go back without making assumptions that we are using correct dating methods.

Dating of the oldest bone is based in beliefs that the science used is accurate, when it is well understood that there could easily be mistakes and assumptions involved in the dating methods used.

Modern science, because it includes assumptions, and might be rooted in all kinds of mistakes because of this... is religion.

[Natsuu]

Religion in my place is becoming their fountain of salvation every time they do unforgivable things, thinking that they will be forgiven as what's written in the book of Bible.

They are attending sunday's masses as just like past time that they think as they attend it, all their acts are refreshed, and cleansed. As they go back to their weekly routine of being a "bad" person base on their religion.

And politicians do use religion as their basis for their action, when it is written in constitution that religion and politics shall be separated.

There's many more, that I forgot what it is.

[BADecker]

^^^ But the people of the science religion realize that they aren't going to be saved by science. They know that they are doomed. But they keep hoping that science will find a way to everlasting life for them. In fact, that's the driving force behind the scientists promoting Covid and a mRNA vaccine for it.

[Natsuu]

^^^ But the people of the science religion realize that they aren't going to be saved by science. They know that they are doomed. But they keep hoping that science will find a way to everlasting life for them. In fact, that's the driving force behind the scientists promoting Covid and a mRNA vaccine for it.

"IN FACT, that's the driving force behind the scientists....." Are you a scientist yourself? do you work with scientist to have a solid deduction that they've said those things? or do you have a solid evidence, record that shows somehow?

Cause if theres non, then thats not a fact, thats your own opinion.

[BADecker]

^^^ But the people of the science religion realize that they aren't going to be saved by science. They know that they are doomed. But they keep hoping that science will find a way to everlasting life for them. In fact, that's the driving force behind the scientists promoting Covid and a mRNA vaccine for it.

"IN FACT, that's the driving force behind the scientists....." Are you a scientist yourself? do you work with scientist to have a solid deduction that they've said those things? or do you have a solid evidence, record that shows somehow?

Cause if theres non, then thats not a fact, thats your own opinion.

You must work with scientists. Notice that you want to follow their silly religion.