I strongly disagree Let's start with the basics: Counting the number of deaths caused by theists and atheists is a foolish way to decide if religion is necessary or not.First we need to think about some fundamental questions: 1. Who is man?What is his role in this world? 2. Does this universe have a creator? 3. What is the relationship between man and God(if there exists a God? 4. What happens to man after death? The above questions are beyond the scope of science. It is not true that man has "scientifically" denied the existence of God, Hell, Heaven etc.The maximum science can say is "Don't know". In short, we are in total darkness. We don't know the way. If we are lost in an unfamiliar, pitch dark place, what do we do? If we meet a person who tells us the way, and if we come to know that the person is trustworthy, why should we not follow his directions?Thousands of truthful, sane men have lived on the earth in different times of history and ALL of them pointed their finger in the SAME direction. Would a normal person say that ALL of them are lying? Friends, these truthful men are Prophets. They are the ONLY authentic sources of answers to these ques. raazikt@gmail.com
RE:Religion a necessity
by Dawood on Dec 30, 2005 07:56 PM Permalink
True that science can, at the most, say "it doesn't know" about things that are inherently ambiguous, but, its always better and logical to accept a scheme of things that come from basic building blocks that everyone sees around him/her, using laws of geometry, algebra, physics...that everyone "observes" if he has the "biological" grey matter in his/her brain. It is simply idiotic to say we must rely on some ancient human being(and the height of stupidity is to call them prophets!) who talked of human values which any individual, who is willing to think, can think of himself/herself....so...if u use ur brains well, which "evolution" has given u, u don't need a religion, and u don't need a god....all u can say, for example, is that there is an observer that science has still to "explain", who "collapses" the quantum mechanical wave function of the universe, and brings the universe to "being". For those who just want to give excuses for not using their brains, "god", "religion", "prophets" are a convenient, but stupid, "shell", which keeps them in the DARK forever.....
