"Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important."

[adisababa]

The thing is, religion is losing its importance by the day.

If you've heard of Pascal, he says that religion is the only place to turn to once humankind thinks how small it is in this irrational and uncaring world. Religion is merely a distraction, a way to cope with the sadness that humans feel when knowing that they are just a tiny part of the ever-expanding universe. And to me it makes perfect sense, there is logic to this thinking and I agree with it.

But that was when people needed to know that everything was better in the face of terror inflicted by wars and famines, nowadays people don't know or encounter that kind of terror, they don't need to turn to God to "save" them, they are already distracted by this growing consumerist culture, where the next new gadget will happily kill their time. Right now there are tons of ways to cope with life, just distractions galore, billions of youtube videos, an ocean of memes, TV show factories, gaming and religion should be obsolete, but it isn't, though it is losing its importance. 

Few questions to the religious on this site, I don't know what God is supposed to be? Is He supposed to save us, judge us?

Is God earth exclusive? If He made the universe then what makes humans think that THEY are worth saving (if they at all need to be saved)?

People pray for wealth, success, etc... but these notions are all man-made, why would God want to give someone money? Success in a job? It wouldn't make sense to God... how would God know all this?

I may sound stupid but the notion of this being that is omnipotent, all knowing, miracle making being is something I can never grasp.

I don't know how God functions, "good" and "bad" are relative.
Man prays to god to fulfill their selfish desires, isn't that in itself "bad"?

As for the question, religion is important, it is the pillar of societal ethics and morals that is embedded in each human's mind, without it, like it or not the world would plunge into chaos, the whole notion of humanity's version "good" and "bad" is dictated by religion and it did at least to my understanding make humans less barbaric and unhinged consequently making the world less chaotic. 

Last edited by adisababa - on 28 December 2017