Did God really create a religion or religions?

[blazeofglory]

The God you commend and then recommend to me is sullied, impious and of course He is totally immoral and sacrilegious. For it has created a religion for us and He is above it.

And God in fact is not religious, and religions are in clash. God is beyond the reach of religions. Today we have Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Christianity, Islam, Judasim and the like and all are warring and fighting. They lead us nowhere but to division and disintegration.

God is not found in a domain of religions and He is above all religions.

Did God really create religions?

[jgweed]

If god did create religions, he did a very poor job of expressing his wishes in a consistent and understandable manner. Religions and their many sects surely are human attempts to explain deep mysteries, and their explanations show us many pictures; but this puts us rather like patrons at a famous art museum, wandering around gazing at art created by painters of many genres through the centuries. We have these pictures, and that is what we have.

[Within Me]

And what i do think, regarding religions. They all eventually lead to God.
But i can`t deny that they do create great barriers between people which indirecty creates an inner conflit among humans.
On the other hand, without religons people would have commited crimes,like killing,suiciding,stealing.
I can`t help it, but i sometimes do think that religion controls our life to only make us better humans and make us have a pure/clean life.

[jgweed]

1. It seems to me that religious people have historically not been above committing crimes. One has only to think of the Inquisition, or the wars of religion after the Reformation, or look to the Middle East today, to remember that much sorrow and pain has been caused by religions.
2. If religion controls our life to make us "better" then doesn't this make it a religion for cows? And since the version of what is a "pure/clean" life certainly differs between religions, how can one of them claim any authority to control our lives? And doesn't the desire to control others lives imply it believes in the inability of people to make moral or ethical decisions for themselves?
Cheers,
John

[dzebra]

It seems to me that religious people have historically not been above committing crimes. One has only to think of the Inquisition, or the wars of religion after the Reformation, or look to the Middle East today, to remember that much sorrow and pain has been caused by religions.


I think that would depend on how one defines religion. I can see how you could think that, but just as easily I can see how it could be said that it is the misuse of religion that has caused all that pain and sorrow.

[DeadAsDreams]

God didnt create religions, we did. No wonder they are as flawed as they are.

[Within Me]

They do control us.
When i am a Christian girl can i get married to a Muslim guy for example?
Of course i can`t. That would make me a bad person,and my parents would get upset.
But since THERE IS a religion and i was born Christian, I know i am not "allowed" to get married to "Unchristian" man.
No matter what my choice is. I am allowed to obey, because this is how things should be done.
Cows are way more better than humans.At least they dont Hurt.
Religions are problems. I mean why you people do fight when they all lead to God?
Those who make fights are not religious people, i don`t even know whether they believe in God or not.These are wild humans and they are capable of eating humans as well.

[blazeofglory]

They do control us.
When i am a Christian girl can i get married to a Muslim guy for example?
Of course i can`t. That would make me a bad person,and my parents would get upset.
But since THERE IS a religion and i was born Christian, I know i am not "allowed" to get married to "Unchristian" man.
No matter what my choice is. I am allowed to obey, because this is how things should be done.
Cows are way more better than humans.At least they dont Hurt.
Religions are problems. I mean why you people do fight when they all lead to God?
Those who make fights are not religious people, i don`t even know whether they believe in God or not.These are wild humans and they are capable of eating humans as well.

Dear Within Me, You are really within me, within the world of my understanding. of course What you said is correct and I totally agree with you and it is exactly what you have written is what I had in my mind while writing the stuff.

Yes it exactly happens and religions narrow our attitudes and develop narrow sentiments and get us to war with one another and distance all of us from our actual natures.

What you said is what really happens in our societies. Religions divide us, cement us along along racial lines. Religions have to enlighten us, but in fact it blinds and we can not see.

It creates gulfs between us and we can do not try identify ourselves as we are and taking religious considerations we define ourselves and we align ourselves with particular sets of beliefs and theories and of course scoping ourselves within religious parameters we fail to see humanity in its entirety and in its integrity.

[Within Me]

Thank you Blaze of glory !
This is a painful issue and it drives me up the wall.
(Imagine all the people living their lives in peace),but that would never happen as long as there are barriers and the first barrier is Religion. -Unfortunately-
People need to realize that what matters is what they feel and not what they were told. If you know what i mean.
There are huge mountains between "what is" and "what should be"
We will never have the chance to live "what should be" as long as we are blinded with typical thoughts and typical concerns.
Wake up people. You have all the answers.

[Judas130]

Is it not mankind that creates the religion to better suit his guilt and his ideals?

and do we not act as worshippers to that person's characteristic, and not the God?

[wilbur lim]

Mankind created religion is a perspective,God actually created religions.As 'blazeofglory' had cited there are so many religions,and let me define it regarding that.
We have faith that there are different types of God for each religion.Each religion worship their God differently.Humanity subsequently then disintegrate their religion into a chaos.Humanity altered it.

[NikolaiI]

God is religion. All creation is part of God, the creator. Untainted religion is the untainted path to God. Materialistic religion is meaningless, but it is worse than that, it is corrupt. To call materialistic religion 'religion,' you are calling it the wrong thing. It is actually very far from religion. You can't be materialistic and religious at the same time, they are opposites.

So anyway God is religion-- religion is part of God and if it is pure, then it leads back to God.

True religion is simply an understanding of God, and nothing else.