Religion, What do you think of it? Options

[HyPN0]

I got the idea for making this thread from Polygamy thread. I think this may be an intresting topic.

What do you think about religion(s)? Do you belive in any kind of gods? Christian God? Alah? Buddha? Or you don't have a religion at all?

If you do stick to your religion, tell us why. If you don't belive that there are such things as gods, again tell us why.
I hope that there won't be any flames or immature behavior. I have good faith in Chorrol.com community that there won't be any hard words, or simply dissrespect towards other opinions.

So, let's start shall we?

[Ibis]

To me, religion is something that has grown with mankind and is used as his/her explanation for the world around him/her. The explanation of the origin of things but also of the flow and constancy as well as the destructive powers unleashed by storms, earthquakes, etc.

In the beginning people seemed to think that there were seperate gods/goddesses for every little item and force in nature. A corn god, a wind goddess, a rain god & all that. Then they got a little savvyor and thought of a pantheon of gods - Greek Olympus, The Roman gods, Norse mythology. The Egyptians had hosts of gods until 300 years before Christ, when a Pharoh decided that there was but one god and he closed all the other temples and moved the center of his kingdom to Memphis and had all the people worship this one god. But he alienated the now poor temple priests to the point that they killed him & reopened the multiply temples.

Then Jesus Christ came & talked of One God made of 3 parts - father, son & spirit - and Christianity soon took over the world. Islam is an offshoot from Christianity & Judaism was its base. Krishna has some teachings remarkably similar to the Christ's.

Then the industrial revolution came along & Scientia took hold. There is no reason that religion and science can't exist on the same plane, but many people seem to think that they can't. Religion and Science are simply two different ways of telling the same story - voicing our unknown. And so it will go until all the scientific and religious data are entered...until all the arks of the covanent, the roseta stones & noah's ark have been located and analyzed. Until the new signs are found.

And then mankind will realize that it ALL was true, that the sons of god did know the daughters of man and found them exceedingly fair. That we are starchildren and that our "true" gods will be our ancestors who will descend for us some promised day and take us away to that new home in the sky.

All hail Agent Molder!! I want to believe! We are not alone!!!

This post has been edited by Ibis: May 14 2006, 04:55 AM