04-12-2004, 06:25 AM
Hmm...interesting.
Thank you for the input...I am Catholic, though it is forced upon me, and I didn't, and don't, see the point of it. Now for my opinion...
I believe that basically religion was born as either a way to tell people what to do without actually straight out forcing them to, or as a way to answer questions. But now, in this day and age, we have many scientific explainations for those questions, such as 'How was the universe made?', and it is obvious that we(here I am talking about the U.S. society) don't listen to the values that it has to say...so how are they still intact? I believe that after the previous two generations die out, many religions will die out in the U.S. as well.
And as for my second question that I had, the religions are the same mainly because many came from the same area; the Middle East. Shinto and Buddhism are from the Far East countries, so they have more of a value spin, and less of a single divine being.
Thank you for the input...I am Catholic, though it is forced upon me, and I didn't, and don't, see the point of it. Now for my opinion...
I believe that basically religion was born as either a way to tell people what to do without actually straight out forcing them to, or as a way to answer questions. But now, in this day and age, we have many scientific explainations for those questions, such as 'How was the universe made?', and it is obvious that we(here I am talking about the U.S. society) don't listen to the values that it has to say...so how are they still intact? I believe that after the previous two generations die out, many religions will die out in the U.S. as well.
And as for my second question that I had, the religions are the same mainly because many came from the same area; the Middle East. Shinto and Buddhism are from the Far East countries, so they have more of a value spin, and less of a single divine being.