Why does religion divide people didn't God create all of this?
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Religion divides people because it is just that: religion. Most of us have a faith and believe in a higher power, but because we are humans, we make mistakes and let our own interpretations affect our decisions. I believe there is a difference in division that results out of interpretation and division that results out of moral questions. It is inevitable that those will happen.
556071
you kind'a have two seperate thoughts going there but heres my opinion:\n\n1) religious people have long said that animals and really all of creation worship God (or a god or many gods depending on who you ask) in their own way. it doesn't mean building tabernacles, but then again, they don't really have that physical ability or need.\n\n2)the concept of God spoiling the world is, in my opinion a distorted viewpoint. what you're doing is looking at two kids fighting over a doll and then saying it's the dolls fault. it's human nature to fight. if we weren't battling over religion, we'd be battling over land or money or whatever we deem fit.
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Beware of collapsing the two-- religion and those who follow religion. For I posit, that even without "religion", we would be divided over something or other. \n\nObserve two toddlers at play for a few hours and watch them fight over one toy. Very quickly you'll see, it is not their religion that has divided them, but their "idea" that they both own this toy. \n\nWe fight not because of religion, but because of our differing ideologies, beliefs, etc. Throw our heated emotions into the mix, and we can really be hostile, violent people.\n\nHence, don't vilify religion but take note of human nature. For that's what religion does, it illuminates our human nature in hopes that we might be empowered to "be our best" in spite of ourselves.
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The world is not so divided.\nYou could try ‘religious and not religious’\nBut I really don’t get why different religions feel the need to differentiate them selves from each other.  Its almost like watching Sunday football backing your favorite team, vandals, hooligans and all.
1100782
Everyone and everything was made by God. Look around you. Do you think that everything could be how it is without God? There is an obvious creator for everything to fit like it does.
1134585
I find it hard to believe God made so many different people and only one way to worship  Him.  Faith is great, religion sucks.  Faith can move mountains, religion kills people.  Hell is on earth.\nReligion is for those who believe in hell,  Spirituality is for those who have already been there.
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At last! An excellent point in my opinion. If God created humans, then he made us capable of questioning everything around us. Otherwise, we'd never have developed technology, learnt how to advance as a society and form our own opinions. So if he created us that way, why wouldn't we question the Bible and all it states?\nMaybe it's right, maybe it isn't. Surely the challenge is for us to discover that for ourselves, not effectively be told "think like us or go to hell!" If there is a God, we have to hope he's proud that we think for ourselves.
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All religions are man-made. They were necessary as the original laws of behavior of peoples of a community. There needed to be some "Chief of Police" with the power and authority to enforce the man-made laws, and that Chief of Police needed to have powers that would make most people tremble at the thought of violating the laws. So, god was created with man-made rewards (heaven), and punishment (hell) to herd the people in the way the elder men (they were all men) thought best for an organized society.\n\nHeaven is a necessary concept for many people, especially for those who are being daily crapped on here on earth, and receive promise that things will get better if they only keep behaving and accept their plight in life.
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Hi,\n\nAll religions in this world unites people. But its we people got seperated between each other in the name of religion. Each and every religion tell us to spread love not religion. But we twisted that to our own wish and we try to crush other religion. WE can help religion to unite people by taking good thoughts from every religion and following it. Be it any religion follow that and respect other religion also. This will make the people to rethink about religion and there will be a new hope between us\n\nAnd further more Today is new year so I wish HAPPY NEW YEAR
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i totally agree. religion divides. yes it does breing people closer...but only people in the select group.\n\nreligion is pointless. religion can destroy more than a nuclear bomb.
26797
In Genesis 1:26, God said, "let us make people in our image..."\n\nMan didn't create God by writing the bible.  The bible was litterally God-breathed, or inspired by God.
117306
It is definitely divisive!!.  Humanity is unfortunately too primitive on the most part to live without religion.  The thought that we will actually die and that's it is too difficult to handle.  Religion also justifies actions which to some (me included) is criminal.
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There isn't any proof.  It's all faith.  Religions were invented by humans.  This would be all religions going back to the days of Hercules, Thor, and Odin.  People did not have a scientific basis for the things that occurred in nature, so religion was invented to explain those things.\n\nAlso, religions were used to keep people in line.  The fear of god could encourage behavior in a lot of people.
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even i dont understand this entire religion thing...if we wudnt have been divided into religions then world wud have been a better place to live in...with every religion trying to prove itself better than the other, we have even lost our basic human principals like kindness, forgiveness, etc. We are ready to kill each other for it but where the hell does any religion asks its followers to kill each other for it...will any of these religious people explain this...all these people who make an issue out of it are not even worth belonging 2 any religion...\nwell honestly i am not the kinds who'll just go blah blah blah about my religion but i just respect others as individuals...& when i have children, i'll try my best 2 make them good human beings & not segregate people into religions...
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If God created us, why can't he created other things, after all he created angels, demons and other things.
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"So many religions": that just proves that Man's underlying need for religion is pretty common. Feelings of vulnerability, purposelessness, loneliness, and a need to belong are probably a universal part of the human condition. So Man created God (in his own image) to compensate for these shortcomings. \nWhich doesn't necessarily mean that Christians have got it all wrong, just soem of it!\nAnd no, they are not all Devil Worshippers. Only the Devil Worshippers are!
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Not all religions are, just a lot of them. And yes, it's a great way to control people, I'm sure that's partly why they were created.