The Point of Gods and Religion

[ArcaneWolf]

Religion, along with Gods were created out of mankind's need to explain the unkown. The Natural world, the Nature of the Human mind, Fate vs. Free-will and ultimately Death. And humans continue to believe in gods because most of the answers to the most ancient of mankind's questions are still unanswered. More then likely they never will be answered.

So like tiny insects we create and destroy on a tiny planet that is insignificant to the Cosmos. A ball floating in chaos and gradual change. With time weaving in circles and lines. Never ending, never begining. Never knowning even a bit of what is "true" in the second of time we are provided.

[kat]

So what exactly are you trying to get out of posting this here? Do you have a question to ask? Are you sharing an idea that you would like people to critique?

Chaos is change.

[ArcaneWolf]

Just satating my feelings on the subject and the pointlessness in taking religion too serious.

I'm open to reading any complaint some religious freak has against my opinion. Rather looking forward to it actually.

np: Paradise Lost- Isolate

[Xzengrim]

I think that religion is a function of human society. Studies have shown that there is actually a religious center in the brain, that makes people want to believe in something otherwordly (and uses more blood when the person is praying too). There are no naturally aetheistic primitive societies, and the most rigidly stratified societies seem to be the ones deepest involved in religion. It seems that religion is here for a purpose, but what could that be?

My theory is that society is a form of natural control made to make humans more well-behaved. If there was no religion, there would be no morals and no codes of behavior, and everyone would just feel free to go nuts all the time. Being as humans are social creatures and rely on the company of others to succeed in life, this would be most detrimental to the human race. So they have this built in OCD-type complex that makes them believe they have to be behaved all the time. It also draws regions together and defines ethnic groups, which benefits those groups and helps them survive.

I think that religion is an obsessive compulsive complex, but that in the end it is beneficial to society as a whole. Other people should continue doing it... and hopefully the fact that I am not will give me an edge over them. ...OR something.

[blueeyes]

The god modulus, a section in the temporal lobe shown to be more active during prayer, meditation, and spiritual thought.
Actually, it's been known about for a while. A little strange to know you can envoke spirituallity with a couple coils of copper wire and a battery, which is how they tested for it in the first place, but it seems like nothing too strange. I'll try to find the article later.
LH, it seems, will have a new way to inspire belief in her.

That said, religion seems to be a method to take over other, similar groups (like nationalism, but not quite), lends to coherence in thought of a group, and often works as further drive for intellectual and social development (even though it looks like it's doing the opposite). Religion works as an aid to expansion and development.

[PureMoonlite]

So like tiny insects we create and destroy on a tiny planet that is insignificant to the Cosmos.

I'm not sure what you're saying there, are you implying that the human race's behaviour is insignificant or that the earth is insignificant to the universe?

[ArcaneWolf]

I'm not sure what you're saying there, are you implying that the human race's behaviour is insignificant or that the earth is insignificant to the universe?

At the time I ment both.

@Xzengrim- Religion can certainly create a system of laws for society, but I think it's more then just that. It seems like the answers we invent for our eternal questions, create the morals.

Thinking back on it I think the main reason I posted this thread was that I wanted to answer my own question of why do people still believe in god(s) or religion. The answer that I came up with was that even in this modern age of reason and science, the human race still has not truely answered some of the same questions that existed back in ancient days. While we've discovered a number of things about nature and the human mind, there still is a lot that is either debatable or yet to be known. And in regards to Fate vs Free-will and Death we are all still clueless.

[kat]

Ontology is not a science. You won't find ultimate answers to these things; you may find opinions.

[ArcaneWolf]

So it is for anything that deals with religion, philosophy or life & Death. It's all a mystery.

[lycanthrope012_8_03]

Religion(i believe) is just a system of beliefes,and morals.the word religion is really to vague.

[Xzengrim]

Religion creeps me out, mostly because it seems like the ultimate form of Fascism. There is some leader, who you have to trust completely and be ready to die for. A heirarchy tells you how you ought to feel about things, and gives you propagandist stlye information about various subjects (usually where things came from and what the nature of the universe is).

Of course, the difference is that any god who was real would have the power and omniscience to back it up.

[kat]

Religion(i believe) is just a system of beliefes,and morals.the word religion is really to vague.
You know, a dictionary can be your friend. (Lazy. Tsk tsk tsk.)