All About RELIGION Here

[Lovely Charm]

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I don't think so... worst kind of CHARITY is when you are doing it and you are FEELING BAD!

you have a valid point ate kebs, but why the need to discredit the opinion of sir Hell
wheres the mistake of sir Hell's opinion?

[Existanz]

OnT: there are some people who don't need religion and they're practically happy with their lives. is there a need to condemn them for not having a religion?

I think its not right to condemn people simply because they don't have religious affiliation. But once people embark on peddling their ideas or belief its fair game to be condemn by others in the court room of logic.

As they say: Business is business...nothing personal

[tripwire]

Do we really need religion?

Well, as much as we would like to oppose to have religion in our society, somehow majority of us want to have it. IMO, religion is one of the greatest barriers in human race. It’s painstakingly separated us from different races [aka racism, discrimination]. Religion has span years of separating beliefs, ideals and intellect. So, why do we really need religion? Not really, unless you want to be in a social group that hatred or intolerance of another race or other races is part of the system. Otherwise, there are good terms that religion has its own values.

[chad_tukes]

Chad I think I have to disagree with this (bold letters), Marc Hauser of Harvard Cognitive Evolution Laboratory performed an experiment that showed humans have a moral brain- what is good and what is evil is instinctive.

May I share this with you:
Morality Without Religion

based on that argument, MORALITY after all is BIOLOGICAL and not religious. we cannot say that GOD gave us our senses of what is good or bad, therefore, we cannot say GOD is good. hence, you are probably right, that morality is instinctive, but that is just one part of the whole morality picture. the morality i was trying to present is, the determination of our senses to choose what is right and wrong.

[chad_tukes]

But where do you believe your parents and/or education learned their concepts of what is good and bad?

from their parents and their parents' great great great grandparents.

[cromagnon]

what differs humans from animals is our ability to make love instead of war.

there will always be morals in conciousness and not in superstition.

[tripwire]

What Marc Hauser missed is that there is only one brain. Those experiment he did is purely source of expectations from a standpoint of a certain subject [human subject] or observations. IMO, moral values are learned you can teach a young boy to become a killer and completely exclude or disregard moral values than those who learned.

During his 1991 tenure as an associate of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, he had so many theories that his subjects are Apes and other animals that are close to human behavior. His post theories were still unanswered although that depends on how one person's perspective. Sa ako lang nabasahan...

[flying fish]

Somewhere sometime, somebody wrote this interesting idea regarding religion=

its not enough that freedom of religion should be practised....one has also the choice to be free from religion,,,,& govern his life using his intelligence, respect & justice for all.

[cromagnon]

govern his life using his intelligence, respect & justice for all.

concious of the karma,

and to not limit urself from what u can do.

[flying fish]

concious of the karma,

and to not limit urself from what u can do.

the confuciacian way of living "the man for the society", in other words being considerate of ones action to his fellowmen