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NFX:
"Be a good person and take care of yourself and help your fellow man" could apply to many religions. It's logical to take care of yourself and insure your future survival by helping others. When did it get to be important to kill (or treat as lesser beings) those who do not believe in your beliefs?

In many ways religion is a like a sales pitch. You get the promise of some great payoff at the end of your life, be it heaven, nirvana, coming back as a cow or getting to bone 72 virgins. But in order for you to get that reward (as a chosen one) you must do what a man has dictated. Thats right MAN. God didn't write the Bible or Torah. Allah didn't write the Koran. Man did. And you know what it connects to our own human weakness of greed and want for that payoff.

We all know, if we are honest with ourselves, that man is not perfect therefore anything done by man cannot be perfect. Man has fear, doubts and agendas. Higher beings such as God or Allah would have none of that.  Whatever your Higher Power, if they wanted everyone to know the objective truth to the universe they would only have to say "Let it be so"

And I do believe there is a higher power out there, I believe each one of us is here for a reason. But I also believe that the true way is the one that the Higher Power has instilled in your heart and spirit at conception. To follow any other path is no being true to one's self and not being true to yourself is living a lie.

And that brings me to the secret of happiness. Money, power and respect are not it. Being able to express who you really are is the real secret. To me thats fulfilling the plan laid out for you. I also truly belive that once you have reached this level of existence, anything is truly possible. Because once we let another man's ideals run our thoughts, we also let man made fears, doubts and agendas run our thoughts. Think of it this way, what if there is no payoff at the end of your life? Would you be a good person? Or what if you never heard of religion but instead just followed your heart, would you deserve to get the payoff at the end of your life? Maybe the true payoff is discovering what makes you happy here and living a life of joy everyday and making the lives of those around you better.

Primo:
exactly

King Tech Quadafi:
u know what my thang is?

too many motherfuckers get worked up over gods intentions. my side included.
i mean we dont know what gods ultimate plan is.

for example, god tells me to be a good muslim, at least this is what i believe. but whose to say i have to bang on people who dont act like good muslims. whose to say what gods intentions are towards them.

sure, my religion may say god has caste them to hell fire. but i dont know this, so how can i act on it
maybe god is just sayin that to scare the shit out of folks, and in the end we all have wine n cheese in heaven.

most world religions say that our existence on this earth is a test. well how do we know that gods rules to us are a test too?

control ur own damn selves and dont worry about what god would do. leave that up to the creator.

J Bananas:
Religion was comforting and interesting and the most captivating form of entertainment to early civilizations on earth. Of course, as human beings progressed and the make up of the earth changed, humans found new ways to explain the world around them. When new institutions like art and science took ahold of many societies' mainstream, other cultures who still devoted most of their time to religion felt challenged. This is where the idea of religious fundamentalism first occurs, people feeling insecure about their dedication to religion, will in turn take it to another level by trying to enforce their beliefs on others. it in the early days, religious fundamentalism was so barbaric that people would take eachothers lives to prove their dedication to religion. the catholics in europe, fucking nuts. spanish inquistion? Islamic moors? these sand monkeys were insane and raped and pillaged a lot of southern europe forever changing the ethnic bloodline of Itallian French Spanish Portos....all that. religion at its basic level (entertainment) can be great, like a a baseball game, or a movie, or a book. but when fundamentalism comes into the picture. things start to go downhill. I mean, lets look at bryan. what the fuck is wrong with this guy? he's gone servely out his way to reject his upbringing and constantly litter us with propaganda about islam. he pretends to never be wrong, and tells us that even though he accepts other cultures he believes his side is right, and he must inform everyone else they are infidels. and he lives in kansas! i honestly fear one day after enough rejection and teasing by everyone around him, that he might just step it up another level to prove his dedication. his personality here screams psycho. anyways, this is my high rant, i appreciate religion, but letting it rule your everyday outlook is just as bad as drug,food,tv,sports addiction.

Trauma-san:
I see nothing wrong with organized religion, christians, muslims, zoroathrianism or whatever it's called.  It all makes perfect sense to me, I don't see what the big problem is.  Saying that it's something that interested earlier civilizations that weren't as intelligent is pretty low brow in my opinion, religion has nothing to do with intelligence. 

Even if you put absolutely no importance on religion, and you believe for instance that Christianity is all a big story made up by whomever.... being so dead set on telling and proving that it's bullshit tips your hand; it shows that you yourself aren't as intelligent as you think you are. 

Let me give you a little story, make of it what you will.

If you go to the mall, and you see Santa dressed up sitting on a throne in the middle of the food court, and all these little 5 year olds are running up to him, and the kid next to you goes "Look! it's santa!" do you

a. smile

or

b. Tell the kid that's not santa, that's a fat man in a red suit

? 

When I go the mall and that happens, I remember being a kid, waiting on santa, going to the mall and seeing him, watching his shows on television, seeing him in parades, opening presents, I remember my family, and it makes me happy to see another kid making a memory he'll remember the rest of his life.  Thank god for Santa, right? 

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