Why Religion?

In Christianity one of the three gods decided to have one of his fellow dieties incarnated in order that he could be brutally tortured to death at the request of the religious establishment (who placed a reward on him). In Christianity, Trinitarianism is essentially monotheistic (one god) polytheism (many gods); there are three gods but only one god; those seeking to understand polytheistic monotheism are advised to stay away from philosophical analysis and logic.


Having brutally tortured and murdered this Israelite Communist martyr, cultists were later encouraged to engage in ritual cannibalism where gorging on his flesh and blood was considered a sacrament (sacre mentis / sacred mind).


How it is that by practicing similar rites to the Sun cultists (sinners) of Babylon and the ancient world that one becomes free of Sun cultism (belief in the sacrifice of and innocent and ritual cannibalism), is not quite clear to me; however at least the Christians are mostly honest enough to admit that they are 'sinners (i.e., they are evil).

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metric said:

throughout history, god was probably the first explination for everything we didnt understand...god being the 'maker of this sh#$t happening'.

i have no doubt that there is power in prayer. whether it be through creative visualisation, or the power of some universal force, ie; celestine prophecy. but whatever the source of that power, men have tried to explain it, harness it, sell it, understand it.

ancient egyptians, celtic druids, mayans, aztecs all created a culture around the belief in a universal power. all used mathematics to try and explain and even harness that power. some believe these cultures COULD harness some of it, and that s how they achieved so much..... secret societies today still practice the beliefs of these ancient cultures.

monotheistic religions have their roots in ancient egypt. many believe the jesus story is simply a representation of the stars, the birth of planets, and the sun. (see zeitgiest)

i believe in a universal power. i believe that we can tap into it. i believe there is secret knowledge regarding that power that only a few know of......

however, all religions are now money making schemes. and religion is used by the powers that be to control much of humanity. regardless of the religion.

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RamonR said:

The are parts of our brain which when stimulated give the experience of being in the presence of another being.

So I say we are hardwired to believe in things greater then us.

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RamonR said:

Believing in evolution the answer is simple.

Because it helps us to survive.

I cannot elaborate much more than this other then to say that it has been proven that people who have faith in some higher power, tend to handle catastrophic events better then others.
( not the actual event but the aftermath )

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kennas said:

There is a theory that survival mechanisms have resulted in a belief in God/gods and thus religion. It's caught up the flight or fight response. This has been studied a lot recently. It can be explained further.

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RamonR said:

I cannot elaborate much more than this other then to say that it has been proven that people who have faith in some higher power, tend to handle catastrophic events better then others.
( not the actual event but the aftermath )

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As soon as men abandoned the life of wandering, tribal
hunters to till the soil they needed to predict the seasons.
Such knowledge was required in order to know when to
plant, when to expect floods in fertile valleys, when to expect
rainy seasons, and so on. Months of back breaking work were
wasted by the unavailability of the calendar, a convenience
we take for granted. The men who first studied and grasped
the regularities of sun, moon, and stars that presage the
seasons had a valuable commodity to sell and they milked it
to the fullest at the expense of their credulous fellowmen.
The occult priesthoods of early astronomers and mathemati-
cians such as the designers of Stonehenge, convinced their
subjects that they alone had contact with the gods, and thus,
they alone could assure the return of planting seasons and
weather favorable to bountiful harvests. The staging
(predicting) of solar and lunar eclipses was particularly
effective in awing the community The general success
resulting from following the priesthood's tilling, planting,
nurturing, and harvesting time tables insured the priest-
hood's power. Today's Christmas holiday season continues
the tradition set by ancient priesthoods, who conducted
rituals on the winter solstice to reverse the retreat of the sun
from the sky. Their invariable success was followed by wild
celebrations. Popular knowledge of seasonal regularities was
discouraged by every manner of mysticism and outlandish
ritual imaginable. Failures in prediction were blamed on sins
of the people and used to justify intensified oppression. For
centuries people who had literally no idea of the number of
days between seasons and couldn't count anyway, cheerfully
gave up a portion of their harvests, as well as their most
beautiful daughters, to their "faithful servants" in the priest-
hoods .

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The power of our finance capitalist money cult rests on a
similar secret knowledge, primarily in the field of economics.
Our power is weakened by real advances in economic science.
(Fortunately, the public at large and most revolutionaries
remain totally ignorant of economics. However, we estab-
lished money lords have been able to prolong and even
reverse our decline by systematically corrupting economic
science with fallacious and spurious doctrines. Through our
power in the universities, publishing, and mass media we
have been able to reward the sincere, professorial cranks
whose spurious doctrines happen to rationalize in terms of
"common good" the government supported institutions, laws,
and economic measures upon which our money powers
depend. Keynesianism is the highest form of phoney
economics yet developed to our benefit. The highly centraliz-
ed, mixed economy resulting from the policies advocated by
Lord Keynes for promoting "prosperity" has all the
characteristics required to make our rule invulnerable to our
twin nemeses: real private competition in the economic arena
and real democratic process in the political arena.

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metric said:

does all the failed financial commentators ring a bell? all of them, failed to see this 'global economic recession' coming? why? well here is an explination...

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kennas said:

This has nothing to do with the topic metric.

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kennas said:

Got this one off Wiki:

A religion is an organized approach to human spirituality which usually encompasses a set of narratives, symbols, beliefs and practices, often with a supernatural or transcendent quality, that give meaning to the practitioner's experiences of life through reference to a higher power or truth.

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The men who first studied and grasped the regularities of sun, moon, and stars that presage the seasons had a valuable commodity to sell and they milked it to the fullest at the expense of their credulous fellowmen.
The occult priesthoods of early astronomers and mathematicians such as the designers of Stonehenge, convinced their subjects that they alone had contact with the gods, and thus, they alone could assure the return of planting seasons and weather favorable to bountiful harvests.

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Once upon a time there was a Capitalist who was listening to a revolutionary, known for his popularity with the people, who was crying out against the tyrant oppressors of the poor, against their police and their military and against the racists and against the hypocrites of religion (the priesthood) who defend them. As he listened to the man, he noticed the police came along and dragged the man away to meet his torturers.

The man thought to himself. ‘This is wonderful, this man spoke to the masses and had ideas which many seemed to agree with, but if I behaved like that, the tyrants would have me arrested and tortured as a terrorist, the racists would burn crosses on my lawn and the priests would stone me as a heretic.’

As he walked away the man thought to himself, ‘This man was so popular with the masses that it is a shame to forget about him, after all a successful Capitalist has to have a popular product. I could turn the teachings of that revolutionary into a religion and make it palatable to the tyrants.
I could build a Temple, construct an idol of the prophet, develop a systematic theology, employ a priesthood to perform elaborate rituals in the name of the prophet, and when the victims of tyranny and of the priesthood came to my temple and heard the words of the prophet, they would be so impressed by his wrath at all the evils of the tyrants and the priesthood that I would soon have a large congregation offering me the fruits of their labour. I could even claim that there is only eternal salvation if one worships the prophet as God; I could take over the market and it would impress the rich people and the tyrants, and in time, I could even make the tyrant the honorary head of my temple. I could even take over a government and fight wars in his name and torture and exterminate all who resisted…and I could…..’

Suddenly the Devil appeared to the man and said; ‘What a wonderful idea, I will do everything in my power to assist you.’

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