If love is everything, what is the purpose of religion?

[jerry old]

Aneeda72 asks a question that we would like to know.

"What is a license to preach? Did you go to seminary or something similar? I have no ideal how my father became a preacher."

I knew a man that had a lic to preach, he sent $ 10.00 to an advert in the back of a men's mag: soon his lic arrived in the mail.

 

[grahamg]

In the past religion certainly served to bind communities together and provide social identity. Today, not so much, but in my little church there is still a sense of belonging that is very similar to kinship. The congregation is the village that no longer exists in a modern city.

Much as it might seem so, the church and religions preached there are not things of the past across the whole world, as I'm told there are places where it is still growing, (parts of Africa maybe for one?).

There might be oasis's in some cities too, and some Eastern countries where religions were suppressed for so long survived didn't they.

We've read on this thread a personal grudge concerning some slight or other, can turn someone against all religion, or religious thought, but some great men and women have come forward, schooled in churches, ready to stand up against "prevailing thought" or whatever it is to be described as? I mean the alternative propaganda our kids are being fed by those anti religious zealots, as I'd describe them, (nice people though they might be otherwise! ).