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Originally posted by PR3SSUR3
If one man can attain discipline, self-control and self-development without needing to pander to an imagined higher force, then the next man (or woman) can too. It's not my religion, it's just my drive and purpose - nobody pulls my strings and I have absoultely nothing to prove to anybody or 'thing'.
I'm sure we did worship animals, trees and fire - without them, we could not exist. Even primitive man knew a good thing when he saw it.
If we needed belief in a superhuman to form a society in the first place (which I am sure we did not, but the crafty ones knew how to get attention and trick others to fall into line - their line, not the only possible one), we certainly do not need it now we are better developed and informed.
Society would not collapse without religion. If it did, then so be it - I would not want to be part of a society that could only exist under such a ridiculous and irrelevant pretence anyway.
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You missed the point, entirely. Religion is totally different then what the high priests have made it out of, through the centuries. Faith is in the life you live, the hope you have, the goals you set, and how you achieve em. Religion is the discipline facet of your life which you have been unconsciously following to
follow faith. Religion is not God, it is not following God, religion is following oneself, and being true to oneself. Without THAT discipline in your life, you CANNOT have faith.
An Atheist also follows a religion. Yes, I know this may sound funny, but an atheist actually follows his heart, and what he thinks is right. That my friend, is in itself, following
something, which makes even the hardened atheists followers. Sure, they proclaim they dont follow God, but they follow their hearts and their purposes in life.
That is their
religion, however blind they may be to it. The discipline of one's life for one's goals and for their attainment.
Dont believe in God. I say just follow your heart. Be human, and practise humanity. Feel empathy for your fellow humans. Humanity is
also a religion in itself, I dare say, the highest religion in the world, above Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, above anything else.