HAS RELIGION UNITED US OR BROKEN US?

[Urbanized Greyhound]

If we go by history , I would say on case to case basis ....

Religion in ancient times provided organization and discipline among the common man. If we look at it objectively codified law has almost been hand in hand with codified religion. Ancient Sumerians, Mesopotamians , Egyptians come to mind.

In medieval times religion has both united and fragmented depending on one's perspective - The crusades united the once dis apparate Christians( the franks of France , the germans and the English ) in Europe who were busy waging wars against each other and their feifdoms before Pope Urban made his impassioned speech and exhorted them to recover holy land . In response the Muslims - mainly the Seljik Turks organized and unified the entire Muslim world even Arabia .

In modern times in this age of enlightenment where people are moving more and more away from blind , religious fanaticism to rational thinking and the call of conscience , Religion hinders more than facilitates the finding of common ground among people with similar thoughts and perspectives .

In our current age religion no longer serves the purpose of "Uniting" people since diversity in all spheres , even religion is here to stay for the foreseeable future . Rather the purpose of religion should be to find inner peace , spiritual contentment and mental satisfaction. A path to the almighty or a path to evolve into better human beings spiritually and mentally.

 

[desioptimist]

Religion is not source of all evils. Without religion we will still be fighting for some reason or other.
Religion just give another reason, now a days a very important reason to fight each other.

Religions are much more than just believing in God. They are packaged products which compete against each other.

 

[Pride]

Religion in my POV is a tool/method/Process setup by some intelligent ancestors with their opinions to unite the people. Earlier people get scare with sun, Moon, storm etc and then pray them later on our people used it carefully to organize with their thought process (There were and are hidden agendas also). Now the problem started when people started using these process with their set of mindset and opinions which gone for superiority thing to hating other groups with different methodologies.

 

[Icarus]

I always say it's man's animal instinct to fight, if they aren't fighting over religion, they'll fight over politics, if not politics, they'll fight over resources. If not so, they will just kill each other for the heck of it.