We all seek meaning in life, but maybe being religious fills that meaning for people and others not so. Life might be objectively meaningless and we give meaning to it.And why seek meaning, if we are nothing more than a random collection of cells that just happened to snap together at some point in evolutionary history, purely by happenstance?
What I mean is, if we are nothing more than a collection of random cells or atoms, how is it that we are self-aware? Most of the time, the result of an accident is chaos. When chaotic things collide together, the result is most often more chaos. Very seldom (and in fact I would say never) does an accidental collision result in things being neatly aligned in rows, dusted, clean and in perfect working condition.
I get it, you’re implying God did those things. OK. Even if God did, I don’t care. I’m concerned about BEING RELIGIOUS not about the existence of God. If God exists, so be it, but I can’t justify
God of the gaps? If you can’t explain it, insert God into the mix?
Please, I am very eager for a response to this.
That we seek explanations at all is all the proof I need that we were designed by a Creator who is greater than ourselves, and not the result of some kind of cosmic accident.
OK. God exists, in your opinion. Good. I’m apathetic.That we seek explanations at all is all the proof I need that we were designed by a Creator who is greater than ourselves, and not the result of some kind of cosmic accident.
Probably for the same reason I buy gifts for my mother and take her places that she likes to go - because of love, and because I’m just so used to doing it, and because the world would seem very incomplete without it.
I have no idea. There were no atheists before the time of Marx. Everyone believed in something, before that.
So you believe every single human that existed before Marx believed in God? Interesting.
Islam and Christianity are also very modern phenomena, at least in the history of the different religions human civilization ever believed in. It could be that human civilization is in the beginning stages of living without religion. Again, I’m mean religion, not God. I really don’t care if God exists or not, it doesn’t matter to me because I feel no need to have a personal relationship with any deity, real or imagined.
Bottom line is that there are plently of people who are satisfied without “being” religious. In fact I would say the majority of people on the planet are that way. There is a passage in the Bible (KJV) that states “Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.”
Thank you, you may be onto something there. I have no personal experience with the Catholic mystic tradition, but I’ve read a little about it, and it does appeal to me. I’ll think over your suggestion.
This is like the whole “Christianity is not a religion but a relationship” thing I heard from Protestants/non Catholics when I was Catholic
People are also religious because they believe in God and love God.
So what is it you’re actually looking for? I thought we had gotten somewhere quite a bit earlier, but not it’s changed again.
Or maybe “why do you choose to be spiritual?” Some people make that choice, and it’s not about feeling good about life, it’s about what they think is true.
OK. I get it. My question of being religious…answered provided.
I am not trying to dissuade you from being here. I’m suggesting that if your question is something different, because is certainly appears that it is, start a thread about those other concerns. You will get people answering those questions who have an interest in them.