I just put in my words of wisdom here. The sentence that explains it all.
"Faith brings us together, religion tears us apart"
Common beliefs is what brings people to talk and live together but when ideas are forced on us we tend to say STOP! Then the person who was trying to convince you say; but our god is better than yours, embrace him (cause its always a him). Religion is like power, it corrupts all minds. It will exist as long as there are people who dont think and accept stuff blindly. It will have followers as long as people wants to be lead thru there life by the hand. Please dont mixup faith with religion!
And a more personal note, if the bible is true then Lord of the rings is true. Imo the bible and all religous texts are the worlds first law books with inbeded stories to tell att night when there was nothing else to do. All religions are born from the same sentences; "What is the meaning of our existence?", "What created this world?" Religion is the same as science, both try to solve the same thing but from diffrent approaches. Both are fighting over theories cause none has proved its theory beyond doubt.
And they have some flaws, we celebrate christmas on the 24-25th of december because the pagan religions already did that. We celebrate easter at that certain time for the same reason. God is a man with beard in most pictures cause thats how Zeus was pictured. Its all so the transfer to the new religion would go smooth and with as little complains and break in traditions as possible!
slaB wrote:
If someone really want to pray to some God, pray to the sun. Sun gave us life and it's still giving us life and confort.
Thats already been done, old egypt worshipped the sun, they even said the Pharao was the son of the sun. If you read between the lines in Islamic texts some say that its all about sun worship aswell.
Hippies belived in nature aswell until some of them decided to smoke her gifts a bit too much