why is religion important?

[September]

And second is to love my neighbor like I love myself.

Does that apply to your behavior on message boards? Or is there some kind of exception because you are online?

 

[Delta4Embassy]

Jesus is important because he's God incarnate.

Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree.”

“Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?” – Epicurus

“I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.” – Stephen F Roberts

“A lie is a lie even if everyone believes it. The truth is the truth even if nobody believes it.” – David Stevens

“If god is the alpha and the omega. The beginning and the end, knows what has passed and what is to come, why do people pray and think it will make any difference?” – Mark Fairclough

“Prayer: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner, confessedly unworthy.” – Ambrose Bierce

“Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer.”

Can't have good without evil for comparison. As many have said there may not actually be good or evil but merely actions and consequences. The good or evil of their nature coming in by how we interpret them. If a soldier kills in a war, is he murdering and therefore evil? What about a terrorist killing the soldier? What about a State executing the terrorist? How we describe identical events reveals whether we describe them as good or evil. But objectively it's the same action and consequence.

Thus if God exists, beyond the fact that we read as early as Genesis 2 that there was a tree of knowledge of good and evil Adam and Eve were forbidden to eat of and thus be able to interpret events as either, that God intended us to simply view events as actions and consequences, not good or evil.

 

[MaxGrit]

And second is to love my neighbor like I love myself.

Does that apply to your behavior on message boards? Or is there some kind of exception because you are online?

Tell me more about the behavior you are talking about.

 

[AVG-JOE]

Jesus is important because he's God incarnate.

Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree.”

“Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?” – Epicurus

“I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.” – Stephen F Roberts

“A lie is a lie even if everyone believes it. The truth is the truth even if nobody believes it.” – David Stevens

“If god is the alpha and the omega. The beginning and the end, knows what has passed and what is to come, why do people pray and think it will make any difference?” – Mark Fairclough

“Prayer: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner, confessedly unworthy.” – Ambrose Bierce

“Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer.”

Can't have good without evil for comparison. As many have said there may not actually be good or evil but merely actions and consequences. The good or evil of their nature coming in by how we interpret them. If a soldier kills in a war, is he murdering and therefore evil? What about a terrorist killing the soldier? What about a State executing the terrorist? How we describe identical events reveals whether we describe them as good or evil. But objectively it's the same action and consequence.

Thus if God exists, beyond the fact that we read as early as Genesis 2 that there was a tree of knowledge of good and evil Adam and Eve were forbidden to eat of and thus be able to interpret events as either, that God intended us to simply view events as actions and consequences, not good or evil.

Actions and consequences!​

 

[ABikerSailor]

religion is a must for two reasons:

1- to take care of what will happen after death
if god will throw those non-believers into the hell, it is important to think of this possibility to protect yourself otherwise if you get assured this will not happen you will be free to do whatever you like.

Faggot deities in the middle east such as Yahweh/Allah threaten punishment after death in (hell), or 72 revirginating virgins, so stupid, low information, low IQ inbred pigs will waste their life on Earth fearing death. Very effective gimmick though as we observe world events unfold. Being ugly and getting no sex except through rape and arranged marriages is apparently not fulfilling for humans.

2- bad or wrong religion cause bad and wrong actions.

All religion based on fake, phony, fraud deities like Yahweh/Allah are evil and bad.

Quick question........................do you understand that Yahweh is the God of the Jewish people?

Second question....................you DO know that Jesus was Jewish, right?