Look at the definition of religion...you need a god and a set of rules/ laws....Religion is not a chaotic mess that you twist turn, adjust at will...
The laws are not brutal but to deter the nature of men to be drawn to sin! It is the basics of ALL religion....When you warn your child not to play with fire, for a curious child that is brutal and controlling but is it not good for him/ her?
Dude a while back you or another one said there is no god so being slaves is too far fetched!!
Few q:
1) Question the existence is what leads one to want a religion
2) GOD doesnt play HE tests to show us our powers and weakness...HE doesnt need to see it HE made us! Its like if we invented something we dont need to take it apart to know whats in it...We made it we know it...
3) To reach the absolute path there are rules...You dont go haywire and reach it! Maybe in a million years sadly not everyone touches their 100th birthday to test all the theories...
If it is there in every living thing then how can someone murder, rape, rob, cheat and many other crap? Is the divine thing in us that weak? Then how is it divine when the corrupt bit in us is stronger enough in some (and lead to rapes, murders, lying, cheating, stealing)?
Well 1 thing is this is from Christian point of view....It basically means a humble human being not no dignity that is the thinking of the proud satan not the humble
At least in the Quran it says there are rules when you dont follow you fall into miserable things...sometimes some tests are to test you (how you will react and how much faith you have in your lord to save you) while others are to make you stronger and make you not take things for granted....Apart from that all the good favours are from GOD and if you keep to the right path technically apart from tests no bad should come to you...
Yet Science has not been able to make life out of thin air...even it needs starting materials...There goes Science is soo great! Religion doesnt teach you to stop questioning...People do that! Esp if they dont know the answers they get irritated by continuous questioning!
Yet no proof of rebirth through science, eh?
Well there is a reason it was thrown to ancient India....and not allowed up front heck some laws (religious) had to be forbidden by the state ...eg. Sati which the state put a ban on not the religion...
Yea the great word NON...which one of you said about ASTIK and
NASTIK...well the
N can also be equated to
NON
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Well what is the status of divine for Vedas when humans adjust it and still do as they please? Do you not listen to god? coz the word divine means godly, right? Do you interfere with GOD's saying and make it man made then still want to claim its god's?