Experience With Religion

Personal Experience with Religion
Everyone is entitled to the way they live and what they believe in. On that note, I used to think that religion is something that people came up with to explain the unknown. People do not like to not know how, why, when, and where things happened or have to happen. Scientists and many people examine things just to learn about them, to lead to new things that could help human kind and to uncover the unknown. Before doing any research myself I often said that religion is a way to add all the things that they do not know and cannot explain into one thing; like how people came about, people think of evolution or creation. Evolution is people evolved from apes and gorillas, but no one has found a half-man half-gorilla
person. So this leaves the choice of creation, which is the belief that, God or gods, created humans and put some on earth, but no one has found or seen any artifacts from these people. But yet no one can really say that God didn’t create nor scientist can prove that we came from monkeys. From my experience death is and will always be the biggest fear in all people, since they do not know what will really happen when they die. Religions try to comfort some by saying that they will be reincarnated or will go to heaven by doing good on earth, but they know that religion is only to comfort them, if they want to believe it or not.
People who believe in a religion live good and better lives most of the time, since they think someone is watching over them.
They have comfort thinking they are working for a better afterlife. Hope is a part of religion in a sense that no one wants to find out that they have been working and praising someone they never heard nor seen. People who do not follow a religion do not have as many morals and values as a believer do. It does not mean that if a person does not follow a religion that they will have a bad life or be a bad person. No one can tell who goes to church and who does not all the time, some people do their own thing without leaving the house. Non-church going people and non-believers might be very nice people anyways. Proverbs are great advice and a lot of religions go by them. People love to have structure in their life, which they are able to pick and control, like religion, but not making up what they do in that
religion.
Richard Cavendish believes that all religions are fundamentally the same, although many things dealing with religion are different it is extremely hard to really pin point the meaning of religion.
Some think positively and others think negatively of things in life; but all have at least a little of each in them. The main purpose of religion is to obtain the good things of life and to ward off life's evils. Morals and values play a large part in religion, like marrying, eating, killing, and stealing. One question of religion is how Buddha did not obtain a God or gods to look up to and praise. A religious teacher is how people consider Buddha. There is an idea that there is another dimension to life besides the material one, as in God and
gods. Religion can be a good influence in people’s lives, but it can also be a bad influence. I have seen and heard of some who have used religion as an excuse to harm people and manipulate those who misunderstood the purpose of religion. In my perspective too many religions out there are pursuing their own success rather than God or the gods that they serve. I have experienced pastors, evangelists who use religion or God for their personal gain. Religion shouldn’t be a burden for those who choose to join, but it should be a sense of relief and comfort for those who weary and heavy burdened. Some religions say they are following the Bible which is “The Word of God” but most rather take whatever suits their interest in the Bible. It is written in Matthew 7:15 that “Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves.” I think people shouldn’t use religion as a way to cause more pain to weak minded people, but religion should use to ease who ever that believeth in the Word.
In conclusion, people who are seeking for the Truth shouldn’t be weak minded, they should be strong minded so that they know which is the right way of salvation, not to say the right way of comfort.