Thread: Religion, is it true?

Originally Posted by Corvus

when really they should all throw down their arms and admit for once that they know virtually nothing make friends so that the real progression of humanity can begin... people are trivial it's a wonder that some bystanding race hasn't wiped as all out.

I agree that the large scale fighting is trivial and useless. But even if you could stop the large scale fighting well you could never stop the small scale fighting... and we could always hope that the humans will not be the "main" race for long... (hi) ^^

Originally Posted by basilisk888

well (sry going back to hitler >.<) look at someone like Hitler he could mostly hide it from the people who he was "ruleing" so do you say that no other people in the world can do that. And if you see "god" your a saint... well what if you see a "person" and ask another person (olden times) who is that person. If they say they do not see anyone well what would you think if you never knew anything about mental illness or Schizophrenia... What would you do and say?
hahahahahahahaha

I would say you missed the point entirely. You are making the same assumption that people who think no one knew about dinosaurs before the 1800's make, that just because the word didn't exist means that the knowledge of their existence didn't either. You said it yourself, there is writings about schizophrenia going back 2000 years BC. They didn't name it schizophrenia, they didn't give it it's own label, they just lumped it with a slew of other "isms" we have now days and considered them "madness". They had a lot of names for mental illnesses back then. Some of the ones that have lasted are lunacy, fury, frenzy, delirium, crazy.... the legal term now is insane.

As for Adolf Hitler he was not schizophrenic, at most he was manic depressive. There are a lot of arguments about what he did and didn't have but none of the options include side effects of hallucinations etc. It is agreed he had delusions of grandeur but considering that he nearly succeeded maybe he wasn't so deluded.

In all it comes back to you have no proof and neither does anyone else. As a result to insist that schizophrenia must be the cause of religious writings/foundings is insulting.


You have brought out one point however and that is that there are a few religions who consider mental illness a sign of divinity and from what I have read they almost universally also use drugs in their religious ceremonies. Religions like animism, many of the polytheistic religions, and believe it or not most "new age" ones. That is probably one of the reasons I have difficulty taking them seriously. Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Islam, and Christianity however I take very seriously. I don't believe in them all as true but I do take them seriously.


@Corvus The division between religion and science did not occur because of the church but on the part of anti-religious scientists who saw Darwinism as an opportunity to erode the power of the Catholic and Anglican church. We lost a lot of knowledge because of them because they threw out all of history and were egotistical of their insistence that they themselves were the peak of human knowledge and all that went before was either meaningless or not worth their time. It is only in the last 20 years that we have been finding out just how wrong they were but it is their legacy on which modern science is founded.

well what about the battle that the religons and science are doing... do you not think taht it is at least a little instresting? (well I do...) teachers (a little time ago) have lost thier jobs because they talked about evolution! its going out of hand and partents should not influence what thier children think!!!

Well, Religion can be true for many people but there is another thought in my head that Religion is not true. You know how people fight off each other? It is because people fight off each other in war for a different reason, for instance the war is one enemy does not believe in peace while the other enemy believes in peace.

My only concern is that for me i cannot decide which is true for me, because in matter in fact i have multiple personalities and i cannot allow myself to be inserted in one whole place, which will cause unbalance situations for me that causes a huge embarrassment. Please do believe what i am truly saying it is not that of a personal thing. Only for the people to know what kind of problem Religion can do if you really stick with it.

For instance i would likely to know what is a major difference is between one god and a lord? Because this is severely thoughtful in my head and will cause a bigger distraction later in the future.

okay whether some people belive religion is true or not is an age old debate that dates back to ancient times. but i guess for one who was raised to believe in God and religion i guess it helps bring hope in those times that you feel you hve no one to turn to. i mean we may keep going on and on about this but there are people who think religion is not true and that science is .

where all else fails, faith helps to bring hope

Originally Posted by basilisk888

well what about the battle that the religons and science are doing... do you not think taht it is at least a little instresting? (well I do...) teachers (a little time ago) have lost thier jobs because they talked about evolution! its going out of hand and partents should not influence what thier children think!!!

I think it is very interesting especially since the Darwinists that rebelled against the church did so because of a stance the church had taken that things like, oh... vacuums and novas couldn't exist because it would mean that the prefect creation of God was changeable.

Think for a second about why that is so funny...

The science that they founded created a system where everything was based on slow incremental growth that couldn't happen any faster then a time they set based on carbon dating being.... set and unchangeable.

Personally I think it is hilarious. They tried to change everything and all they did was embrace an unproven belief that rejected change.

In the meantime this belief that religion was anti-science and fantasy grew to such a level that eventually the sciences became flatly antagonistic to anyone with a belief in god trying to study it (in spite of the fact that many of the greatest minds in science were all religious). To go into science and retain your religion now days means facing persecution, potentially losing your job, and being denied funding by institutions and governments alike if you dare to speak openly on the subject. Still the number of religious scientists are growing and those willing to face that to increase knowledge have nothing but my respect.


As for parents not influencing their children, don't be silly, of course they influence their children merely by raising them. To not teach your children what you believe is shear negligence. They are living thinking beings and when the children become adults they can choose for themselves whether or not to believe then act accordingly.




@dark1angel what do you mean by "a lord"?

Originally Posted by basilisk888

I agree that the large scale fighting is trivial and useless. But even if you could stop the large scale fighting well you could never stop the small scale fighting... and we could always hope that the humans will not be the "main" race for long... (hi) ^^

The word "Fight" was ,is and will be sticked with humans as long as they live ,humans hearts are constituted of evil and good ,no one is pure of only one of them and no one can change that fact.

Originally Posted by dark1angel

Well, Religion can be true for many people but there is another thought in my head that Religion is not true. You know how people fight off each other? It is because people fight off each other in war for a different reason, for instance the war is one enemy does not believe in peace while the other enemy believes in peace.

No ,i don't think so ,all fights around the world goes around two things ... the first is religion the second is rebellion and occupiers (greed in one of its various shapes) ... that's what i think.

Originally Posted by dark1angel

My only concern is that for me i cannot decide which is true for me, because in matter in fact i have multiple personalities and i cannot allow myself to be inserted in one whole place, which will cause unbalance situations for me that causes a huge embarrassment. Please do believe what i am truly saying it is not that of a personal thing. Only for the people to know what kind of problem Religion can do if you really stick with it.

And that's true faith. and not just a superficial alias.

Originally Posted by dark1angel

For instance i would likely to know what is a major difference is between one god and a lord? Because this is severely thoughtful in my head and will cause a bigger distraction later in the future.

What do you mean by that?

Originally Posted by Arrianna

No, "religion" is not true.

Let me explain. There is a big difference between saying something is true and that it has truth. With the second you only need there to be things in it that are true. Does religion, generally have truths? Yes. However for something to be "true" it must be completely true not just have some truth.

Now I am prepared to say that the religion I believe in is true, in it's entirety, but I am not going to say that religion, all religion, is completely true. It would be impossible. While most religions do have many things in common there are to many contradictory beliefs from one to another that prevent it by their very existence. For that matter I know many people who cannot say that their own religions are true in their entirety either. Can you?

Not to different from what you were saying Descended From Darkness but with the exception that I do believe there is a "true" religion.



Mind you this subject was titled so badly that that has nothing to do with initial post which is why I never bothered to post before now. I saw no reason to discuss the "true"ness of something without a decent parameter.

Religion is true and it has truth that is for each single individual believing in a religion around the globe .. it's not the religion that matters but how much you believe in it and give to protect.