I believe in god but i feel like religon has failed me. I dont have faith in humanity and seeing all the terrible things that are being done in the name of religion disgusts me. I feel like i dont want to be affiliated with anything that can cause so much terror when it is supposed to be preaching the exact opposite.
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I Don’t Want To Believe In Religon Because Of All The Wars It Has Created?
Posted on November 13, 2010.
Religion like any grouping of people can be corrupted. It is not only religion. Governments and any other organization of people do wrong because people are involved. The Bible tells us this. We are fallen and have a sinful nature. If you don’t want to be affiliated with anything that can cause so much terror, you should not affiliate with people.
Absence of religion results in as much if not more terror.
Atheists, Mao, Stalin and Pol Pot outlawed religion in their nations. They went on to murder tens of millions of their own innocent people. They are the most prolific murderers of all time.
The history of human warfare goes back to the beginning of recorded history (and, no doubt, well before that). A recent comprehensive compilation of the history of human warfare, Encyclopedia of Wars by Charles Phillips and Alan Axelrod documents 1763 wars, of which 123 have been classified to involve a religious conflict. So, what atheists have considered to be “most” really amounts to less than 7% of all wars. It is interesting to note that 66 of these wars (more than 50%) involved Islam, which did not even exist as a religion for the first 3,000 years of recorded human warfare.
actually less than 7% of wars are caused by religion!
To be able to balance our lives in a natural rhythm is the goal.. Many “primitive” societies knew how to reach that goal, but we must not forget that the tendency has always been in interpreting the natural phenomena as “God given gifts” Thus distorting the scientific reality and opening the door to abusive beliefs..
There is a long list of religions that took that approach with the horrible consequences
we have now.
So.. I do believe that avoiding the supernatural beliefs nonsense is the right path for a better society.
War is caused by politics, not religion. Religion however creates necessary politics.
Basically what I want to say, religion isn’t to blame for wars, even the Crusades (had an economic and social undertone). However religion can create situations leading to increased chances for war.
I hope you examine your decision. The most violent war in history occurred during the 20th century, and the the instigators atheist regimes who rejected God. Hitler, Stalin, and Mao accounted for some 100 million murders.
War is sometimes necessary to stop powerful nations that subjugate their neighbors and impose totalitarianism.
Cheers,
Bruce
You are very smart because religion has nothing to do with our fathers will in our life. Relationship with the father has to come from the spirit in truth, this is the only way. Religion has to do with man and his traditions all in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Thank you for recognizing the difference. God Bless you and everything you do in the name of Jesus Christ our Father in Heaven.
Sinners cause war. That is what the Bible says.
Jesus says to love others, which is the opposite of war.
Heaven and hell are after death. It is too late to be saved after death.
Jesus is God and is the only way to heaven! Jesus took our sin upon Himself (2 Corinthians 5:21). Jesus died in our place (Romans 5:8), taking the punishment for our sins. Three days later, Jesus rose from the dead, proving His victory over sin and death (Romans 8:11). So that by believing in Jesus for everlasting life, we will be in heaven and not in hell.
Why did Jesus do it? Jesus answered that question Himself: “Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends” (John 15:13). Jesus loves you! Jesus died so that we could live in heaven forever. If we believe in Jesus, trusting His death as the payment for our sins, all of our sins are forgiven and washed away. We will then have our spiritual hunger satisfied. We will have access to a fulfilling life. We will know our true Best Friend and Good Shepherd. Most of all, we will know that we will go to heaven after we die—a resurrected life in heaven for eternity with Jesus!
Lazy people usually say that. They say they believe in God but they say they don’t believe in religion cause they are too lazy to go to church.
I don’t believe in food because of all the people who got fat because of it.
It’s supossed to be keeping them healthy, not killing them. o.O
Religions don’t cause war, idiots do!
Religion doesn’t cause wars, people do.
Okay, but WHAT IS YOUR QUESTION?
I don’t blame you Sofia, But did you know that true religion does not promote, participate or condone warfare? It is possible to find this religion.
“A Christian is not to participate in acts of war.” That statement sums up the early Christians’ view on war, say Thoko and Malusi Mpulwana in Echoes, a magazine published by the World Council of Churches (WCC). It was only “after the Christian Church had come into alliance with the political establishment,” they add, that the church began to favor “an acceptance of the necessity of war.” The result? Christendom’s support of wars throughout the ages has become so flagrant that after the second world war, the United Church of Christ in Japan even felt the need to issue an official “Confession of Responsibility for World War II.”
Today, Christendom’s belligerent reputation has changed little. “If we ask whether we as Christians have indeed said a firm and convincing No to the logic of war and Yes to the love of Christ,” admits Dr. Roger Williamson, who works for the Church of England, “it is clear that we . . . still have much to confess.” Although the WCC declared in 1948 that “war as a method of settling disputes is incompatible with the teaching and example of our Lord Jesus Christ,” Christendom’s churches, Williamson notes, have often contributed to “bigotry, intolerance, restriction of human liberty and hardening of conflicts.” No wonder he concludes that “religion . . . often serves to exacerbate rather than end conflict.”
The war that ripped apart the former Yugoslavia is a case in point. Despite the injustices and cruelties that have been taking place for years, the churches have found it very difficult to take a united stand on the conflict in that country. Why? Dr. Williamson notes that despite their supposed Christian bond, Serbian and Croatian clergy are just as divided as their countries’ politicians. There and elsewhere Christendom’s clergy, whether Catholic, Orthodox, or Protestant, act not as peacemakers but as “chaplains to their own side.” Though more than 300 churches now belong to the WCC, Dr. Williamson admits that it is “surprisingly hard to find examples of churches actually making . . . peace.”
Hard, yes. But unlike the WCC’s member churches, which are merely talking about reconciliation, there exists one religion that has already succeeded in reconciling former members of different religions and helping them become true Christians. Today, moved by their love for God and their desire to “pursue peace with all people,” in 236 lands the more than 7 million Jehovah’s Witnesses refuse to share in the wars of the nations—whether fought in such places as Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, Northern Ireland, Rwanda, or the former Yugoslavia. (Hebrews 12:14; Matthew 22:36-38) Instead, they are fulfilling Bible prophecy by ‘beating their swords into plowshares’ and ‘learning war no more.’ (Micah 4:3)