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Originally Posted by sonikjuice
If you didn't believe in god, would feel your life is meaningful? Why do people look to religion in the first place? I would argue that it is to find meaning in their lives.
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"to find meaning in their lives."
why?
because one needs to feel they accomplished something, that life has a purpose.
why?
because one is afraid.
You make a point, sonikjuice, but you didn't (for whatever reason) carry it through to its logical extension. One can analyze just about anything under the sun, (& much like what I have written here) it will all come down to fear of death or denial of one's fear of death.
These are exactly the reasons why people should not become religious, & yet, yes, they are exactly the reason why people
do become religious.
This is why religious people are nearly all hypocrites.
Organized religion deals in fear, not love.
To know love one has to let go of all personal attachments, even the nagging persistent attachment of one's own ego.
Prayer shouldn't be like a kid on Santa Claus' lap obeying the courtesy rituals of how to ask.
Proper worship is creativity & expression. Prayer is silent meditation & not some litany handed down by dogma that people perform by rote out of fear. Add to this that most people are imprinted with a denomination's religious dogma at an early age & that true belief must come through doubt and it should be clear why we are so very remotely far from the mark & seemingly so hopelessly lost.
Organized religion hasn't evolved to Christ-consciousness & never will & this is the basis of the whole point of Christ in the first place. A former minister himself, Soren Kierkegaard descibes all this much more eloquently in his edifying books from the nineteenth century like Attack Upon Christendom , Purity of Heart is to Will One Thing: The Good in Truth, and various other works.
Pastors may pound the pulpit with New Testament sermons but truly, in their own little pig-headed (like most of the people in this thread) lives, no one in the congregation (save the occasional chronic sufferer that may be in attendance), understands
anything about what is being preached.