Religion : Uncovering A Great Fallacy

          Ever since man has chosen to write down his history, organized religion has been a prominent topic and has influenced and shaped all people’s lives. There have always been believers and non-believers. Since the beginning, non-believers have been persecuted by inquisitions, prosecuted by witch trials, and murdered by stoning and crucifying for even questioning the “truth” about a supreme being and supposed crimes against that being. Religion had a purpose in earlier times to explain life, but today science provides more concrete answers. Religious beliefs are old and outdated and people should trust the scientific facts that have been proven, not what has been

Religion is one of the greatest creations of mankind. Human beings are different from any other animals because of their ability to think and to create. When man evolved to form societies or countries, when they need to understand better the world around them, religions were created naturally.

Almost all religions around the world are based on a belief. Almost every religion have certain rules and principles that order together within a society: Many people misunderstand and misinterpret the holy texts the Bible, Quran, Torah, and others fabricate. Religion is defined as faith to a higher being who one believes has created us. It has also been used as laws through history to stop the committing of crimes. In many religions, the consequences of breaking rules and regulations of the religion are burning in the pit of hell. Religion is man-made and was created for many reasons but mainly to keep peace and justice in the world. But the words can be manipulated and used as an excuse to start wars on this planet. This caused many to believe that the world would be a better place without religion.

In a forever evolving universe, it is not uncommon for human beings to experience apprehension when it comes to the idea of change. While some are passionately working towards the future, others are struggling to grasp onto the remnants of the past. New generations are being born and with every new generation comes an increasingly advanced perspective of the world. Traditional ideals and ways of life are continuously expanding and becoming something that may be unrecognizable to some and unheard of to others. With this being said, however, there is one thing that will never be completely new: the concept of religion.

Many people challenge others on their religious beliefs. Back in High School, there was this teacher that challenged me every time that I walked into class. We practiced the same Roman Catholic faith. One day She always told me that I was practicing my faith the wrong way. In my opinion, Religion should be practiced

Religion has existed for as long as man has. Both men, and women believed in a

Religion forms as a method for dealing with life and the world it makes up. It answers the questions that are beyond science and logic. It eliminates the question of "Why?", and brings the fellow believers together to cope with the community and personal problems. People come to religion to find stability, a sense of understanding, and help from other believers. These are the needs that religion fulfills.

Religion is based off of your time and technology. It is shown by the progression of time and how it influences people’s beliefs over time. As shown in the upper paleolithic revolution people had polytheism in the early 50,000 bc with the advancements of technology and the evolution of the human mind, The belief of many gods began to emerge into the belief of only one god. Then further advancements began to question if there was a higher power of any god at all.

Religion is a cancer that has done so very much damage all across history to mankind and has done more to separate us than any other force.

Religion has been important to mankind since he discovered that he could think. Especially when the questions arose on where man came from. Thus, the invention of a supreme being and ideas on how man came about. In a time before scientific discovery, man had tales of the beginning of life on Earth. The stories were passed down from generation to generation and each corner of the world had their own take on how life was created.

Eliade's perspective that religions often share some of their fundamental belief tenets - whether it be the power of the god/goddess (sun god, moon god), vertical objects as tying earth to the heavens and the underworld, etc - is unique in that most of the academic focus on religions is on the differences between them. Eliade "thinks that certain general forms, certain broad patterns of phenomena, can be taken outside of their original time and place to be compared with others" (p 231). I want to say I've said something about this before (maybe in Buddhism?): the belief many academics hold that differences are always more pronounced and more important than similarities is harmful, reductive, and leaves out important components of religion(s).

Religion has been a powerful force in human history. Mankind has longed and searched for the answers to its purpose, the reason for being and the possibility of life after physical death. They reasoned that an afterlife would be a place of accounting and reckoning for the life they lived on earth. Religious belief systems seemed to give the answers as to how to prepare for the afterlife. Religion became the means of giving answers to those basic yet deep-seated questions of both life and death. Religion provided a format of rules and laws for conduct and treatment toward others based on the desires and wishes of a god or gods that people envisioned, imagined or invented. Religious belief systems have been a powerful force for good and bad...good in the sense that it provided a measure of individual behavior and order in society for the wellbeing of the whole, but bad in the sense that men of ambition who craved power and control over others would often use religion as a tool of manipulation and fear. A casual glance of history tells us that complete civilizations have been built, grown and maintained around elaborate religious systems, ancient Egypt being a prime example.

Religion is a misrepresentation of the Christian perspective where men decide to use works and deeds to enter Heaven. Many government officials back in Jesus’ time aggressively took the message of God to turn into a confusing issue that would separate the Christian faith into different denominations. The denominations consider the Christian faith with their own perspective on controversial doctrines, such as Baptism, speaking in tongues, demon possession, or celebrating certain holidays. Our society is functioned where Christians become sensitive about different topics, leaving the secular society to ignore them.

It’s the twenty first century. Scientists have found evidence of water on Mars, they have successfully cloned human embryos, and everyday, they are getting closer to finding a cure for cancer. Still, in a world of groundbreaking facts and evidences, where the newest discovery leaves older ones out of commission, we fool ourselves into blindly putting faith on a series of chronicles conceived during the primitive age. Religion probably started out as a result of mankind trying to explain the physical world, but then became a tool to control and oppress, a reason for bloodshed and hate. While religion may have been of great help in

Religion is a different experience for each human being. The various aspects of religion appeal to different types of people. Whether they choose to follow for the protection of a great and powerful deity (or deities) or for the religious customs that they practice and complete in order to be seen as a devout follower of their faith. At it’s most basic level, the definition of religion depends solely on the individual and what they are looking to get out of being religious and devoutly (or not so) following a specific religion. Not every religion worships or fears a mighty deity there are exceptions such as non-Mahayana forms of Buddhism, which is a non-theistic religion. Not every religion learns about what is right and wrong from religious text there are exceptions such as the traditional religions of the Native American people’s. Religion varies either drastically or minimally depending on the person, sect, or denomination. Followers choose to believe certain stories that others might not or refrain from eating a specific type of meat or observing a certain holiday, the list is infinite. From an atheist perspective on the outside looking in, there are three themes that are unchanging and define and incorporate the multitudes of types and variations of religions: tradition, followers, and mindset or beliefs.