Questioning Beliefs

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GC - Min is talking about Numbers 15:32-56

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Which religion could possibly allow questioning your beliefs?? That is not the point of religions. Religions are created to control you and questioning your beliefs(or anything) would be the last thing they wanted. Besides If you really question your beliefs objectively there is no way for you to keep believe in..
World is not a good place. It's full of violence, terror, famine and not to mention contradictions in religions.. And apart from all these, In order to live, we have to kill and eat some living things. So even if there is a god he had better have some excuses for this creation becouse it is obviously corrupted at the begining and we suffered-keep suffering- becouse of his mistakes.
So when it comes to religions questioning is off topic..

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Nothing you said is indicative of your assumption that religions can't be questioned by believers. I'm a Christian in a non-denominational Church. Of the 5 or 6 churches I've been to in the Church of God movement all of them teach to question dogma and doctrine. Several other Christian churches outside the COG movement (some protestant, pentacostal, baptist etc.) I've been to have also taught such things but only in a less consistent matter. There it's usually pastoral preference whether to question their doctrine. Since the Church of God movement is a movement focused away from Doctrine it's one of the key principles usually taught in the classrooms. Secondly, introspection is in no way objectifiable because of it's solely subjective nature. However, limiting your biases by not making broad and sweeping judgements on a religion would be a good way to start to "question your beliefs objectively".

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Religion is designed to keep you ignorant and close minded. It was used by higher authorities to keep the gullible in control through fear of eternal damnation.

You have to look no further than the millions of idiots thinking this planet and the universe are less than 10,000 years old even after it has long been proven with factual evidence that this is not the case. However, religion keeps these people ignorant and in denial. Questioning their beliefs is not allowed for their brainwashed minds.

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Religion is designed to have a better understanding of God/gods , whatever they may be. It has been used historically by people in power to quell the masses and as an excuse to destroy contradictory positions. Hopefully the world has developed enough socially now to better deal with such inequity better. Modern religions (by my observations) have learned that fear/reward as a motivator is outdated and irrelevant to teh topic at hand for religion. People keep people ignorant. People use fear and doggy treats to obfuscate and manipulate the masses. It's been done in a lot more facets of society than religion (buisness, politics, media etc) I personally feeel it's a bit consipratorial to foster ideas of religion being designed to control the masses. If that's true a case could be made that all ideas are meant to controll the masses. Belief is meant to inform and seek truth and defining that belief is what religion does for some. All that aside, I wholeheartily agree that religion has become morally defunct and dogmatically obsolete in a lot of places and would love to see less religion and more conversations about God.

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