History as it happened laughs in the face of religions, why are there so many believers in this section?

the majority of religions today have been fabricated and molded throughout history. most of them are a bunch of crap, but there are or at least ought to be, underlying themes in all and any religion that everyone ought to be able to respect. for instance right to life and happiness and everyone ought to have there basic needs taken care of. there is no reason why there should be people with 5 cars, 3 houses and a **** ton of toys, when there are children dying on the streets. this dichotomy has also been present throughout history. people know very little about the actual history of the world, because all they know is what they read in one book. you ll find that most people who cling to their religions like a security blanket and think that studying the history of the world is the answer to everything, are not all that educated. they believe whatever they are told to believe. thus, they don't actually think about what they are partaking in and the logic is lackin excessivley. i also do not believe in ONE true faith, the majority of them were all made up origionally to benifit someone.

In most cases there is no balancing with most religions, minus the eastern faiths which are usually based on universal balance or karma. The problem with balancing the relationship with religion is that most are built upon the foundation and teach that *said religion* is the one true faith. The originating idea of having some kind of benevolent (correct usage?) creator came from a severe lack of understanding the natural world. This had to have lead to the whole supernatural sub-genre of life.

Another issue is that religions usually teach ignorance, though in not such an obvious way, it usually goes something along the lines of "This is created by * and this is it was and will be". With common sense not being a biological trait armies of people just simply fall into these ruts and branch this non-wisdom out to family and friends (congregation).

I am very anti-religious, don't call me an athiest because athiests want to believe in god, but I just believe in myself.

I wont bash any religion though because to hate something based the acts of a few individuals would be just as ignorant as saying god is the one and only thing ever.

People can easily be commited to history and religion, it wouldn't be hard at all considering history and religion very obviously shaped eachother. I believe people should be commited to learning and aquiring knowledge, and not narrowing their minds' field of view to simply that of an all encompassing creator.

For me, there comes a point when I have to ask; who is history benefiting? First and foremost I ask myself ... what was taught to me first, history or religion? My answer: religion. There is something about religion that has endured throughout the ages. History changes, the more you hear about it. Fifty years ago the general public knew nothing about the Japanese-American concentration camps set up in this country to force American citizens of Japanese descent to live behind cages ... all because of the war with Japan. Now we know ... I know because of a book called 'Return to Manzanar', written by a former prisoner of one of these camps describing her life with her family as a little girl. History is slanted in favor of the writers. If you read Egyptian history, you'll notice that there is nothing mentioned of a mass Exodus of Hebrews ... yet there is a small mention of slaves that could've been Hebrew. Just because it's not in the history books doesn't mean it didn't happen, right? After all, I can fully get why Pharaoh would place an order of death against anyone who wrote about an 'insignificant' little man named Moses getting the better of him and leading masses of slaves out of Egypt. True, religion can be slanted in favor of the persons it represents. That's why I don't put much stock in religion; I live by faith. I don't consider myself Catholic, Baptist, Jehovah's Witness, Pentecostal, or any other man-made religion; I consider myself Christian. In other words, I am a follower of Christ. I would never be so conceited, though, as to belittle people who follow other entities. Who am I to say that The Great Spirit that the Native Americans believed in is not the same Allah that the Muslims worship, or the same Jehovah that other cultures worship? To answer the question, I'm not committed to history or religion, but to faith. You have only to question where your life comes from and how the first human came to be to leave room for faith. After all, if we can believe in the air that we breath, even though we can't see it, and if we can take leaps of faith for other seemingly unexplainable events ... why not?

History doesnt argue against my faith, it supports it. The only part of science that argues against my faith is evolution and just like there is evidence to support it, there is counter evidence to contradict it.

The Big Bang was a combination of 3 separate theories, and every one of those theories has since been disproved. Yet the idea stands.

Egyptians didn't invent circumcism, thats just another theory of history that has yet to be proved. Don't forget the jews were enslaved in Egypt and thats a more likely reason that practice was adopted there.

The problem is people take the bible to be a literal work that states fact and isn't open to interpretation. I have never read the bible and just accepted what I have read. I re-read and try to understand the meaning behind it.

Like at the start of the bible, the idea of the world being created in 7 days, I don't take that as literal 7 days, 24hrs each day. I take it as a proverb, something that requires thought and interpretation. God is an eternal being, so time would not mean the same to him as it does to us, and days might just be a representation of a time period. Like 1000 years, or even more, 1 billion years.

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Islam is not older than Christianity, it dates back to the prophet Muhammad, 600ad approximately. Christianity is 2000 yrs old. and Judaism is over 6000 years old. There is no comparison between Jews and Muslims in terms of age of faith.

Who knows? I'm an Athiest and I don't know why people fall into radical sects of religions in the first place. I basically think of religions as huge cults that try to cram themselves down our throats as they intertwine with the events of human history. As the records show, Judaism and Islam are some of the oldest religions ever recorded. Since Judaism and Christianity have many roots between each other, it's amazing why they have struggled for supremacy in recent history (i.e. The Spanish Inquisition).

Fortunately, many people have diverted their eyes from these enormous cults and try to lead decent lives without religion being jammed into their minds every day.

I've also heard that you can be in any religion when you're a Buddhist, just as long as it encourages peace and good will towards other people. In short: With the constant struggle of religion in our every day lives, it's hard to finally see the clear facts. History tends to repeat itself, and so be it that religion will be there to **** everything up.

Religion exists because of Faith. Faith isn't something that is proven or learned in a book or found in ancient writings. It's more something you either have or don't have. Those who believe and know of the history combine the two, taking pieces of history and bringing them into their own beliefs.

I am much the same way as you in a sense. I know the history, and it presents itself in a history of religions cannabolising eachother constantly. While I have no idea what waits in the great beyond (nor do I think we can understand it) knowing the history of the religions and people who follow them is interesting enough to encourage more research.

Each religion believes in what the book says, and the supposed "history" behind each one is (in my opinion) a load of crap. Though you have to take into consideration the fact that not everything in history happened in the same place. I don't know what to think, people can believe whatever will make them sleep better at night, but the real events that led to this believing are as debatable as relevence insues.

everyone has to have something to believe in or what would your life be. Hopeless,dull,non existence. Everyone in history has had some experience with religion through miracles, divine entervention,or just a real hard belief in faith. Some of the people in history had some nasty experiences with religion, Christ was crucified because people beleived but couldn't accept him as who he was. Read the bible and you will find some good things and some bad things. Not all of history deals with religion. The Lord made us and he had his reasons and he will deal with us all.

People are scared. They are raised to believe and going against it is hard, and instead of embracing the possibility they don't listen or fight it for the most part. People cant go against what they think is fact, it would shatter there small sense of what is right and wrong and destroy how there little world works.

I love a democracy; believe and practice as you desire.

Here is a question, how can anyone not be committed to history and religion at the same time? Religion is also history and history is also religion.

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