Or a control mechanism in societies through which negative/ bad/ animal type behaviors can be controlled. If no religions and their guidances existed would some of us still behave positively and kindly. Or is the balance always moving between "good and evil" - seems fifty/fifty to me atm?? Even their manifestos offer different messages from Buddhism and its various forms to Christianity and its? - Could we really manage without them all?
Are all religions just one big con trick?
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Gardenlover
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Without rule of law, chaos reigns. The creator created the laws and gave us the choice to follow them or not, but the paths we choose have consequences.
I think this is a biased ; none scientific viewpoint?_
rules an6d laws can exist without religions surely?_
Gardenlover
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Science when spoken in truth will tell you it doesn't have all the answers.
Gardenlover
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What is the ultimate baseline for law?
so in that case we just invent our own?
you tell us?_
Who's answer... to anything... would be unbiased.
If you don't like, that's fine... I like it.
Gardenlover
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That is not scientific. Creation has answers as well, even if we can't decipher them all. (Edit - added the part about creation)
Gardenlover
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I'm not that smart (wide easy going grin), but I do enjoy talking about it.
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To say all religion is a con game, is silly / smiley. 
If humans have been interested in it for millennia and have written profusely on the subject, why not take some time to understand the history of religions? I think you will discover many legitimate reasons for our interest in that which we can not prove. When I entered the Buddhist monastery I was instructed to go through several books about the history of religion. That way I could examine and study how others have navigated their lives.
If humans have been interested in it for millennia and have written profusely on the subject, why not take some time to understand the history of religions? I think you will discover many legitimate reasons for our interest in that which we can not prove. When I entered the Buddhist monastery I was instructed to go through several books about the history of religion. That way I could examine and study how others have navigated their lives. 
Lawrence00
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Only Atheism. We could do without that ism.
My family are all Christians, all 3 generations. I'd to think there is a god and there is life beyond death. I don't go to church regularly because I haven't found a church I want to settle with. I do make a donation every time I attend a church service, not a lot of money, around $20 bucks. I don't believe any church or any priests should make income above average.
spectratg
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All religions can't be right . . . so the only logical conclusion is that they must all be wrong.
I do like your rationale there~!~! cool man
Aunt Bea
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We all have some sort of moral compass or belief system and it’s certainly possible to live a good life without any connection to organized religion without criticizing or speculating about what others choose to believe.
Bretrick
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I believe a lot of religions prey on vulnerable people.
For what purpose I have no answer. I stay as far away from religious zealots as is possible.
For what purpose I have no answer. I stay as far away from religious zealots as is possible.
bobcat
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I don't think that is true. Even a child or adolescent may not be mean to another or steal from them because they don't like how it feels when someone does that to them. It may have nothing to do with any God or religion.
bobcat
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I think that's an error in logic. If there are 10 doors, and the chance of a car behind one of them is 50/50, and one by one, you choose the wrong ones, then using that logic there can be no car behind any of them.
Sorry, but even if there is one door or a hundred, the chances are still 50/50 that a car is behind one of them. If all the other doors are the wrong ones, it doesn't change the possibility. It simply means that the more doors there are, the more chances you have of guessing the wrong one.
Who_so_ever
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More than a human viewpoint.... it's called faith. Hebrews 11:1 "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen."
Do you have faith the sun will rise tomorrow? You haven't yet seen it.... yes, it's done so for thousands of years, but what if it burns out? What if another planet crashes into it, throwing it spiraling off into space so deep that we can not see it?
I'm not upholding 'religion'. Religion killed my Christ, who was perfect and without sin.
Just like satan in the garden, he only had to get Eve to question the Lord's word. I don't claim to understand every jot & tittle in the KJV, but I don't question it's validity.