Religion is ONLY words, NOTHING else

[bulge]

Religion is ONLY a bunch of words, NOTHING else. Only EMPTY words without any meaning. Those words create other words called theology, doctrine or otherwise. The words god, allah, yaveh, believe, faith, believer, unbeliever,... are totally EMPTY.

 

[offcentered1]

Religion is but the artistic interpretation of science and nature.

 

[lonestar]

Oh my, I wonder how many islamic fundamentalist are blowing themselves up in front of the JUB office right now...

 

[lukylok]

If only all the fanatics could blow themselves up !

Religion is man invented to alleviate the fears of the unknown and above all to allow a few manipulators to lead the people where they want and extract a maximum of money.

 

[Orlandude]

Organized religion is a business. Nothing more. If you need it, you buy into it. If you don't need it, you spend your money on other things.

I do believe in a power greater than myself but I don't feel the need to report to a building every sunday morning and drop my money in a basket to prove it....and I certainly don't need some guy, with the same vulnerabilities I have, standing there telling me how to live my life and then reaching into my wallet.

If you need religion and it helps you cope....go for it. If you don't, you can talk to whomever you believe to be "God" right in the privacy of your own home.

 

[RenaissanceMan]

If only all the fanatics could blow themselves up !

In their own space please...

While I think there is a bit more to religion than words...I agree that most religious people start to talk in a different language, which either doesn't mean anything or is a substitute for some general concept.

I have never understood why people say "love God". I don't know what this means. I understand what it means when you say "love a person I physically see before me", because then I can care about their well-being and do something about it...but "love God"? In practice, it only means "love people", so why not say just that? yet lots of people make a distinction between "loving God" and "loving people".

But religion need not be something that alleviates fears or makes money off of people or even control people. Yet if someone writes a book, puts several people "in charge" of deciding what it moral and what is not, (aka. organizes religion), then it's practically inevitable it becomes a problem.

I would prefer to go a "church" and meet with people to talk and listen about certain "religiously related" subjects in a non BS language. I guess that's philosophy though...

 

[Brijan]

Religion is ONLY a bunch of words, NOTHING else. Only EMPTY words without any meaning. Those words create other words called theology, doctrine or otherwise. The words god, allah, yaveh, believe, faith, believer, unbeliever,... are totally EMPTY.

It is obvious the words are empty for you.
But if those words, or any words for that matter, were truly empty, then why do people continue to die over those words?

Organized religion is a business. Nothing more. If you need it, you buy into it. If you don't need it, you spend your money on other things.

Wise words.
(The same can be said about health care and research into cures.)

 

[lukylok]

It is obvious the words are empty for you.
But if those words, or any words for that matter, were truly empty, then why do people continue to die over those words?

Just because they are brainwashed and terrorized. When I hear : "God said", HOW ? did he write, send a fax, or an e-mail ? phone ? or is it only based on so-called holy books, written very much later than the facts they are supposed to be reporting and copiously "edited" by the same autorities " ?
Wise words.
(The same can be said about health care and research into cures.)

Health care is beneficiary to everyone, at least in my country, and research based on scientific data and not mumbo-jumbo.

 

[Brijan]

Just because they are brainwashed and terrorized. When I hear : "God said", HOW ? did he write, send a fax, or an e-mail ? phone ? or is it only based on so-called holy books, written very much later than the facts they are supposed to be reporting and copiously "edited" by the same autorities "

Then if words are nothing more than words, then how can they cause others pain?
Think of name calling in schools (a form of bullying,) ethnic slurs, or something a loved one has said to you in a moment of anger.
Words are not empty.
To say that only religious words have no meaning is close-minded, and in my opinion erroneous.

Health care is beneficiary to everyone, at least in my country, and research based on scientific data and not mumbo-jumbo.

I didn't say health care wasn't beneficial, I did say it was a business.

 

[Green_Man_007]

Religion is ONLY a bunch of words, NOTHING else. Only EMPTY words without any meaning. Those words create other words called theology, doctrine or otherwise. The words god, allah, yaveh, believe, faith, believer, unbeliever,... are totally EMPTY.

The highest religion has no words

Books that the imitators call "holy" are all false idols.

Paper burns, engravings shatter, statues fall, temples crumble.

 

[Kurn]

Religion is ONLY a bunch of words, NOTHING else.

A good Buddhist saying!!

 

[buzzj]

Religion is ONLY a bunch of words, NOTHING else. Only EMPTY words without any meaning.

Only to those who do not experience their faith.

 

[Andreus]

indeed buzz

words are the expression of ideas

they can be empty if they dont reflect action or they can be used to define action.

it is up to the individual

 

[Andreus]

it would seem that hate goes around in so very many ways

sad really

 

[thewiz]

Unfortunately, and all too often, religion is simply a bunch of words. If you read the gospels and accounts of this man Jesus, the Christ, you'd find that he didn't spend time with the rich, with the highly religious of his day, with the society elite. Instead, he chose to spend his time with widows, fishermen, the outcast, prostitutes, tax collectors, and people who saw themselves as unworthy to stand with the religious.

And he didn't hit them over the head with a club; he didn't shake a basket in their face; he told them to love. Love their God with all their heart and all their mind; and love each other. He said everything else would come from that word--Love. How true. It is hard to hate when you are loving; it is hard to ignore someone you love; it is hard to hurt someone you love; it is hard to go to war with someone you love.....

A lot of words have been wrapped around that one simple word; words that have often clouded and choked out the original context. Instead of "doing", the reaction is often, "don't-ing." Don't do this; don't do that; don't do this or you'll go to hell; etc.

 

[bacchus]

religion is the expression of spirituality

those who hold similar beliefs and hold similar spiritual qualities to be important, gather together and share among themselves their ideas, their feelings, their fears- that is religion

ever hear of a 'personal jesus'? we all have our own personal spirituality, just some gather in groups to discuss it

religion isn't empty. those people that use religion to oppress, to monopolize, and to murder are the ones that make it so

 

[Marvels]

A word is almost never empty.

If you hear someone stand in front of the podium and declare that all the faggots in the world need to be eliminated, will you feel nothing?

If you hear a doctor break a news that your mother has lung cancer, will his words show no bearing?

If you hear a man preaching about how Love is the key to true happiness, will this man's words have no meaning?

A word is empty when it means nothing. Doctrines, Korans, Bibles, they mean alot.

 

[turtle]

Define your terms, please, folks.

Religion is two things.

Religion is organized worship and/or service of God. Athiests are free to believe that this is a hollow thing, there being no God, others are quite right to criticize historical religions, though they almost always forget the massive amounts of simple charity that have been produced.

Religion is also something else entirely, it is also a personal belief, and individual practices intended to keep focus on being true to that belief. Personal Religion is the practice of being good.

And that's not just words.

 

[bulge]

religion is the expression of spirituality

those who hold similar beliefs and hold similar spiritual qualities to be important, gather together and share among themselves their ideas, their feelings, their fears- that is religion

ever hear of a 'personal jesus'? we all have our own personal spirituality, just some gather in groups to discuss it

religion isn't empty. those people that use religion to oppress, to monopolize, and to murder are the ones that make it so

Prefab religions like christianity, islam,.... have NOTHING to do with spirituality whatsoever. They NEVER had and NEVER will. They are the plain negation of spirituality. Religion and spirituality can not come from the outside, from a book or from something like that. Religion and spirituality can only come from the inside of individuals. As long as it comes from the outside, there is NO religion or spirituality.

 

[bulge]

A word is almost never empty.

If you hear someone stand in front of the podium and declare that all the faggots in the world need to be eliminated, will you feel nothing?

If you hear a doctor break a news that your mother has lung cancer, will his words show no bearing?

If you hear a man preaching about how Love is the key to true happiness, will this man's words have no meaning?

A word is empty when it means nothing. Doctrines, Korans, Bibles, they mean alot.

It is utterly and totally immoral to give a meaning to words which are totally empty by nature like faith, believe, believer, sin, god, salvation, etc... Not only are those words totally empty, they also are mere inventions of manipulators.