Observations on Religion

Simply my observations throughout my lifetime so far. This is not to be discussed as I do not intend to argue my points but rather wish to see others' point-of-views as my life progresses.


Religion.....a concept of more controversy than any other subject known to human philosophy. What is religion? How did it come into perspective to human lives as a concept to begin with? Why is there so much controversy and contradictions? More importantly, why does religion seem to have so many holes and unexplainable teaching that many fear to question....yet eagerly and willingly have the obligation to advertise a religion that they themselves are incapable of fully comprehending?

These questions often come into mind along with simplistic answers formed from opinions based on observations. Religion, to me, is nothing more than a basic guide to maintain good morals in a person's everyday life. I suppose unexplainable events that happened in the past along with the present are used to justify what's worshiped in religion....usually due to laziness to explain or blind faith. Despite how intelligent a person is about seeking logical facts and explanations, many intellects continue to believe in the supernatural teachings of their religion without question. A case in which puzzles me.

Most philosophers question religion and doubt its existence, which usually means that the majority of philosophers don't believe in religion but rather in science instead. I find it odd that I myself am a philosopher, yet believe in religious teachings of Christianity....often resulting in my inner thoughts of logic and faith constantly contradicting themselves. But due to this, I have been able to use religion to explain scientific occurrences and vice versa. So I don't understand why some people attempt to contradict religion by bringing up evolution against the concept that all things were created by God, rather than believing that maybe God set up our creation in a process-based form known as evolution. Or maybe God set up sequential events to make a more major event take place....such as forming reactions to cause the Big Bang in order to bring about the formation of earth....or creating atoms to make elements so people can have resources....or even the fact that maybe God made things happen in a way that science can explain through logical explanations so that people won't be clueless and aware of why something happened or how something works.

I have no idea how other religions came about, nor do I know how most of them managed to possess more than one God. I am not here to judge but it appears that Christianity is the only one with actual proof of God's existence. If Jesus was indeed the son of God, then the widely questioned concept that man may have created God is false and should therefore be discarded as a concept. It seems that people are making up excuses not to believe there is a higher power due to a misguided pride in their own humanity and thus deny God's existence. And yet, they are willing to believe that life has no purpose and everyone will just live and die with nothing to look forward to. Really? Think about that for a second. That kind of logic automatically tells me that they lack self-confidence or pride and are not likely to get very far in life. Moving on.....

Now that leads me to Jehovah Witnesses. I have always questioned their logic everytime they show up at my door. I see that some of their views and teachings are contradicting within itself. Their teachings don't exactly promote positivity and they seem to be stuck-up people. I have come to notice that most of are self-centered and spiteful at times, mostly isolating themselves from other people. This may not be entirely true for every person that is a part of it so I am not bashing any particular person in general like most others do with christians. From what I've observed, it seems the Jehovah practice is not a religion but rather more of a system of rules that a group of individuals came up with in order to separate themselves from christians who are often accused of hypocrisy.....something that I find very ironic by the way.

Why are christians accused of hypocrisy? Is it because most christians are known to push their beliefs on others; often quoting the bible and judging/condemning those of different religion, yet commit immoral acts that contradict their claims? Or is it also the belief of a higher power that many refuse to accept? What if other religions involve the same god, only in different forms? These ideas of different gods are the reasons for conflict between religions.....or are they?

Is it not a possible factor that maybe many of the conflicts are based on pride just as groups like gangs, clubs, and organizations have? People put down other religions to justify their own, which contradicts the basic point in it to begin with. If religion is based solely on good morals and good-will toward their fellow people....or a guide to a balanced life, then everyone that downs another religion is a hypocrite. Meaning that everyone is wrong and the controversy between religions have less to do with ideas, but rather more due to arrogant pride no different from petty gang rivalries.