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Religion and human civilization

People incorporate NGOs (churches)to be spreading the ideology that the deadly crime you will commit tomorrow has been died for two thousand years ago.

People incorporate NGOs (mosques) to tell people that God is burning people including decent people in hell for unbelief and/or idolatry.

Both groups have one book each whose contents they say must never be questioned by anybody despite that a simple Google check will show hundreds of contradictions inside the same two books

While there is freedom to believe anything you want to believe including absurdities and that is mainly because no one can enter your brain to change your belief, the society should however not allow the incorporation of NGOs of the kind described above within it's space for obvious reasons

God has always been there and will always be there but religion is an innovation, a very new thing which if left to fester can and most probably will bring down our civilization.

lawani:
Religion and human civilization

God has always been there and will always be there but religion is an innovation, a very new thing which if left to fester can and most probably will bring down our civilization.

Gods are innovations that never existed until human beings created them and used religion to propagate ideas of them. It is for this reason that there are so many gods, as each civilization created their own. And it is globalisation that has enabled the religious spread of information about some gods around the world that now seem universal.

If it weren't for globalisation, I'd likely be worshiping Obatala, the ancient local god of my community, and our own recent locally created Owala, which was created when an area was flooded and a huge lake was formed and deified. If I hadn't bothered to pick up books and read to educate myself, that is.

Basically, it's not just NGOs that spread religion and belief. People do too, just as you have done here. But indeed, you are free to. It is the responsibility of those that religions are spread to to ask and knock and seek with their own senses so that they may stop just believing and instead know.

P.S. Do know that religion, as in, the spread of ideas about gods, were what created the first schools. Unfortunately, early education was about telling people what to believe and accept as the truth, and some have not evolved to use their own senses to ask so they may know.

Ref:
https://www.nairaland.com/7707569/how-gods-made#123445154

https://www.nairaland.com/4260792/graveyard-dead-gods#63734763

budaatum:
Gods are innovations that never existed until human beings created them and used religion to propagate ideas of them. It is for this reason that there are so many gods, as each civilization created their own. And it is globalisation that has enabled the religious spread of information about some gods around the world that now seem universal.

If it weren't for globalisation, I'd likely be worshiping Obatala, the ancient local god of my community, and our own recent locally created Owala, which was created when an area was flooded and a huge lake was formed and deified. If I hadn't bothered to pick up books and read to educate myself, that is.

Basically, it's not just NGOs that spread religion and belief. People do too, just as you have done here. But indeed, you are free to. It is the responsibility of those that religions are spread to to ask and knock and seek with their own senses so that they may stop just believing and instead know.

P.S. Do know that religion, as in, the spread of ideas about gods, were what created the first schools. Unfortunately, early education was about telling people what to believe and accept as the truth, and some have not evolved to use their own senses to ask so they may know.

Ref:
https://www.nairaland.com/7707569/how-gods-made#123445154

https://www.nairaland.com/4260792/graveyard-dead-gods#63734763

The NGOs doing those things I highlighted above should not be allowed to exist in any civilized nation. Do you have any sensible reason they should be allowed to exist?

Then the Igbo call stone okute, the Yoruba say okuta and the English say stone. We all know they refer to the same thing. Therefore when the Igbo say Chukwuabiama and the Yoruba say Olodumare or Olorun and the English say God we know they are referring to the same entity or person. Your argument that there are millions or thousands of Gods does not make any sense because even physical human beings have different names they are called in different languages used by different cultures and how much more God?. I hope you get it. There is no multiplicity of God and it is only mischievous people that use that argument

If God which has a name in all cultures is an innovation why not say stone, air, water and even language and etc are innovations too?

You are not correct to say or infer that religion introduced science. What is correct is that religion is the opposite of science or what do you think is the opposite of science?