What Is The True Purpose Of Religion?
April 15, 2011 at 4:28 am
(This post was last modified: April 15, 2011 at 5:15 am by JohnDG.)
This will be my first thread and i want to limit the discussion to a certain criteria. This is not a debate on god so any thiest that chooses to post please do so in the same manner as the rest.
What i want to talk about are the true and actual uses of religion in a society, a government, and country.
I belive that religion isnt really meant to save people or their souls, but to help establish control over a people, limiting the amount of crime, violence, and freedom of thought. Also it can help to unite people by giving them a comman purpose in life to work for. It may also help run armies as zelous soldiers would fight longer and harder possibly till death, with belief of rewards in the afterlife.
These are just off the top of my head but what other applacable purposes of religion could there be?
What i want to talk about are the true and actual uses of religion in a society, a government, and country.
I belive that religion isnt really meant to save people or their souls, but to help establish control over a people, limiting the amount of crime, violence, and freedom of thought. Also it can help to unite people by giving them a comman purpose in life to work for. It may also help run armies as zelous soldiers would fight longer and harder possibly till death, with belief of rewards in the afterlife.
These are just off the top of my head but what other applacable purposes of religion could there be?
Live every day as if already dead, that way you're not disappointed when you are. 
