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Originally Posted by JohnnyPotSeed1969
i think that it is very important to go into these things with an open mind, otherwise you will lose the point. there is nothing fundamentally wrong with religion, it's only fault is that man has diluted and contorted the message to meet his own needs from time to time. unfortunately, this is going to cost millions of souls.
i've been looking for God for years now, and while i'm very close, i still don't have all the answers i seek. i know that with patience and faith, i will eventually find them. no man can tell you your path to God, because it is an individual journey.
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i personally find something very fundamentally wrong with religion. and this guys problem is not new.
the fundamental problem with religion is that
certain people have addictive personalities. they get addicted to church and take their beliefs to the extream nature where there is no debate anymore. you either believe the way they do or you're going to die because that's what the holy book says. and if it wasn't church maybe they'd be deep into the occult or drugs or politics or environmentalism. they just need to cling or fight for a cause i guess.
and you can find these people in every religion. they are the 'radicals' or 'fundamentalists'. they are very common.
when they reach that point, they turn off their reasoning faculties and rely strickly on faith. and if the feelings are not encouraged in wholesome ways by moderate preachers these people grow to despise their fellow humans who live and believe differently then them. that is the problem with religion. it breeds at first devout followers and them some poeple turn extreamist.
however, some people have been so brainwashed by religion that if you could somehow prove to them that god doesn't exist and all religions are wrong, they would go mad and do all the horrible things that their fear of hell has been preventing them from doing. those people need to keep going to church. they just dont need to come knocking on my door.