Religion

             What is religion? What is the role of religion in our lives? Religion has been described as a belief in god.... Belief that is without any reason except that god is there to be worshiped than to be questioned. But another meaning of the word could be the belief of a person in his own self, and has nothing to do with god at all. So then religion could be any kind of feeling, force or drive that motivates a person toward his or her desires, whatever they may be. This divides the world into two halves, on one hand is the group that says, "we believe in god and all his power without any doubt or questions" and on the other hand is the group that says, "We don't believe in the concept of god, we however believe in achieving our goals and that is our religion. There many reasons why people don't believe in god, it could be due to their deep faith in modern science and its discoveries. It has, as a matter of fact been proven scientifically that the universe was not created by god but was a result of a big explosion of condensed energy billions of years ago .It has been proven scientifically that man was not sent down to the earth form heaven by god but man is rather a feat of evolution. Evolution, the process whereby which life propagated itself on earth, the process
             the purpose religion could be to let man be aware of himself, to be in constant touch with his inner feelings and in doing so he should achieve purpose to his life. So it is perfectly possible that a person could not officially follow any defined religion or religious sect and yet be religious by devoting himself to his ultimate goal no matter how small that goal may be. The concept of god is complicated and confusing, god has been described as a supernatural, supernormal and all-mighty being. He is believed to be the "creator".
             If we look at religion and its effects on society, it is confusing. Because a group practicing a ...

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