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What is the meaning of Religion?

Why there are so many religions for hundreds and thousand years?

Still not even one of them are able to answer a simple question such as, Why God is hiding?

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  • 9 years ago
    Favorite Answer

    Why God is hiding? Because He is naked in the bathroom.

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    Definition: A form of worship. It includes a system of religious attitudes, beliefs, and practices; these may be personal, or they may be advocated by an organization. Usually religion involves belief in God or in a number of gods; or it treats humans, objects, desires, or forces as objects of worship. Much religion is based on human study of nature; there is also revealed religion. There is true religion and false.

    Why are there so many religions?

    A recent tabulation concluded that there are 10 main religions and some 10,000 sects. Of these, some 6,000 exist in Africa, 1,200 in the United States, and hundreds in other lands.

    Many factors have contributed to the development of new religious groups. Some have said that the various religions all represent different ways of presenting religious truth. But a comparison of their teachings and practices with the Bible indicates, rather, that the diversity of religions is because people have become followers of men instead of listening to God. It is noteworthy that, to a large extent, teachings they hold in common, but that differ from the Bible, originated in ancient Babylon. (See pages 50, 51, under the heading “Babylon the Great.”)

    Who is the instigator of such religious confusion? The Bible identifies Satan the Devil as “the god of this system of things.” (2 Cor. 4:4) It warns us that “the things which the nations sacrifice they sacrifice to demons, and not to God.” (1 Cor. 10:20) How vitally important, then, to make sure that we really are worshiping the true God, the Creator of heaven and earth, and that our worship is pleasing to him!

    Source(s): NWT and Reasoning from the Scriptures
  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    Meh...

    Seneca: Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

    Lucretius: All religions are equally sublime to the ignorant, useful to the politician, and ridiculous to the philosopher.

    ~

  • david
    Lv 7
    9 years ago

    He that hath the ye to see so let him see.

    he that hath the ear to hear then so let him also hear.

    AS yet we as a race do not have etheric vision as a normal faculty of the eye.

    Children are now being born with this in situ, so ask them why they can see.

    God of this planet exists upon these etheric planes of matter.

    Source(s): Theosophy.
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  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    Control of the dim-witted masses.

  • 9 years ago

    It's a tool for the weak to control the strong.

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    http://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/102005133?q=why...

    Love,

    Your Neighbor (Luke 10:27, NWT)

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