Sunday, March 31, 2013

Religion is a hope mechanism? (NoHN) Response

I am responding to the post here.

" If religion can make some individuals feel better about the universe, I don't it's necessarily a bad thing.  However, I believe it should  be known that it's true purpose is to provide hope."

I can agree that religion is a mechanism of hope for the people that believe in it, however  to say that is its sole purpose could be a bit of a stretch. If people truly believe that a higher being exists then they also believe in their higher being out of fear (think about what would happen if you didn't believe?) and its also a belief  that for some, has no real reason to it. Perhaps they believe in God because of indoctrination, which is okay. So, I agree that religion is a hope mechanism, but to tell people that its true purpose is only that seems inaccurate to me.




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