New religon!!!

[WebKittten]

I think it is time for a new religion!
Something that considers all our needs, equal rights and in general will be more up to date and closer to common sense!
Sometimes I think our predecessors would have done much better job with religions if they had all the knowledge we have today!
I am truly tired of peoples fanaticism :( it creates so much problems :(
It is sad that most people are in such darkness, while they are sure they are protected by "god".
People! can you only comprehend only few testaments at a time?!
Have you read your human rights? Do you know what is in your countries law books?!
You will get a really good idea right and wrong from their! Be more realistic please!

[tbl]

Time for a new religion? What you have described is a few reasons why there should be no religion at all. Secular humanism works fine for me.

[Mitch]

I go to a very liberal Christian church (The United Church of Canada) and we do not take the bible literally at all, we act like English scholars and dissect it, question it and analyze it. My church is very much a family, not the "god's family" that everyone is told, but an actual family. We disagree alot, but we debate it and work it out. We help each other out and make things work. I don't think we need a "New Religion", that would create more problem than it would solve, it's been tried (JWs etc.). We need to improve our current religions and work on educating people that the Bible/Koran/Torah/etc. are not all to be taken literally, and to be taken with a critical eye.


Geez these take long to post.

[tbl]

If the Bible isn't taken literally at all, it's not really different to Shakespeare and the like, except that a religion is centred around or based off it. If some only some parts are believed literally and others as allegories, how do you decide which parts are which? Is the God part even literal? Surely such picking and choosing renders the Bible and unnecessary middle-man (for want of a better term).

[Ed Jones]

Taking christianity as working example, people may consider themselves Christians for various reasons;

Many feel the need to have something "to look forward" too in terms of the inevitable. I have no problem with this. Essentially it's a comfort status
Many use religion as a guide to live by as i believe (correct me if i'm wrong) what Borghunter meant. Whether the bible is true or not, it is a guide to living right and treating others right. Again i have no problem with this. As long as they respect that i believe differently.
Others have religion thrust upon them and so thrust it upon others. I have a major ethical quarrel with this!

[Mitch]

That's exactly what I meant Ed. Some people take religion much to seriously. All religions should be like that of the Buddhists and Aboriginal peoples, it being a way of living, rather than set rules to follow.

[Cattraknoff]

Organized religions are the very embodiment of "sin".

Always motivated by political interests, used as a tool to control the masses. It is becoming obsolete though, but thankfully (?) our governments are finding new and better ways to make us unquestioning fools.

[Cookies]

I think this world is far better off without religion. Life should be about living to our fullest. With religion, war will come into play, and killing 1000's of innocent soldiers.

PEACE is what we need.

[Gwendl]

Borghunter, that sounds like the kind of church that I could actually relate to and would join. One that is not overtly tied into the religion as told in a book, but living the concepts that the book was supposed to represent (helping your fellow man, etc, etc).

[Cattraknoff]

Borghunter, that sounds like the kind of church that I could actually relate to and would join. One that is not overtly tied into the religion as told in a book, but living the concepts that the book was supposed to represent (helping your fellow man, etc, etc).

All of which can be accomplished if you leave religion out of the picture entirely.