would anyone like to venture towards religion

Here are a few thoughts about religion.
Religion came from our species need to believe that help was always available, especially in circumstances that could not be exspained.
It also has one of the best selling points of any known philosophy.
I call it after death security,this is for those that are still breathing of course.
No individual would like to believe that when they exit planet earth for whatever reason,the only future they have is to keep the grave diggers and crematorium workers employed or fatten the worms in the local cemetaries.
Now for a comment on the churches or should I say the corporations .
How about they forget their philosophical differences and quests for power and start a quest for the betterment of humanity.
After all isn't that what the religion and the churches are all about.
If anyone of the many Gods exist ,they will all be popping Valium like there's no tomorrow.
Ooops sorry about the pun.
I am sure religion and the churches were'nt designed to be used the way they are now.
Maybe the only thing that would bring all of our species together in a common cause is an inter planetary war.

[Mep]

I was with you up to the interplanetary war bit :-)

Actually though quite a lot of the threads here either end up in political or religious debate / argument..................so at least the forums remain true to life!

[Lawrenzini]

go on.. be honest, you're a scientologist arn't you... Tom?

If you only knew

No Tom, not a scientologist mate just an old sceptic mate.
But I know some one who is , he believes everything came from the enterprise.

Would that be the Starship Enterprise ??????

Big Ted

[Lawrenzini]

My name's not Tom... However I may have been suggesting you were a famous scientologist named Tom... possibly.

Originally Posted by mep

I was with you up to the interplanetary war bit :-)

Actually though quite a lot of the threads here either end up in political or religious debate / argument..................so at least the forums remain true to life!

Yes ,I believe they do mate .I'm starting to feel at home here.

Beam me up Scotty


Big Ted

Sorry Lawrenzeni, nope never been anywhere near a scientologist church old son.But one day when I'm in the grip of the grape I might.

I know mep, the enterprise was a bit much even I had a hard time swallowing it as I was writing the post.

[Lawrenzini]

The thing that gets me about organised religion is the contradictions... god is all forgiving yet there is a place called hell... where those people who this all forgiving god... well... err...


I don't think that the idea of some sort of god is such a bad one, we all need abit of humility. However organised religion is just nonesense...

I'm so bored of the way religion gets a bad wrap because of the misunderstandings and subsequent screw-ups of its adherents. Religion should be known by its principles and those able to live up to these, not by its weaker practitioners and their garbled interpretations of the system they claim to represent.

I thoroughly agree lawrenzeni the whole thing is a contrived load of crap , on Australian TV the other night there was a program about how the KGB tried to bump off a not to sypathetic pope, and how the super powers were vying for the massive political influence he had.

Shadowritten
There is merit in what you say, faith without the need for power,
and adherence to a humanitarian based philosophy is indeed noble.
The only problem is except in a very few cases ,it is swept away in manufacterd populous belief.