After reading the post "mire of atheism" which is a really interesting thread, I came to a thought. When I first came to this board I wanted to add conviction to beliefs that I was not yet convinced of. When I first started studying with the JW's I wanted to find God in the world. So much craziness, killing, people who just don't care, slums, homelessness, hunger, no praying in public places, school shootings, wars. .. . . all that stuff- I thought the only answer was religion and God . I thought if people could go back to religion what a better world this would be.
But, I was wrong.
I started thinking about the original Planet of the Apes movies (I've not seen the new one). Any of you who have seen it know that the apes have their own religion with an Ape Jesus/God person or something like that. Anyhow my thought was that religion has always served a purpose- but it is a man made purpose. When the first people were on earth they didn't know a whole lot about the whys and hows. Religion explained the unexplainable & it gave some order to the chaos. Now we are in the scientific age and we can explain things. There are still many mysteries but what we've learned about the heavens and the earth shows that our Bible stories may be as fictional as reading about the great Greek gods or the story of Buddha. Why keep holding on and trying to justify the stories are true? Maybe it's time for the next thing. Maybe it's coming down the road a century or two from now.
My big revelation though has been that religion can't change the world, people do. . . .yeah I know, reeeaaall deep but it was just a thought and I wanted to share it and kind of say thanks because if this board wasn't here and the posters who post here weren't here my mind may not of made that u turn.[;}]
