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A thought here.
I know there is alot of topics on religion in this forum and I checked on similar and informative threads here that apply to my take and question.
Recently someone was asking me what exactly I got from going to a boys' Catholic school in Uk besides putting the fear of nuns into us and suppression I'll add. I'm not a relatively religious person. I question alot of it. I rememeber the first thing we learned by rote were the ten commandments before diving into Catholicism..thou shalt not steal, commit adultry, murder.etc. I also recall learning that it was the worship of a golden calf and a resulting wild orgy that brought on the commandments and they were to be a form of "protection" from ourselves.
It doesn't hurt God if we steal, murder, cheat. It doesn't take anything away from him but it hurts everyone involved down here. You commit those act to a tangible target. So in this day as knowlege, logic and science increases and we become more of a selfish race looking out for ourselves and the governments grow bigger with influence. What started as ten relatively simple rules to go by, well, we have made so many laws and some adjustments that seem pretty leniant and enough to do my head in. The less God and faith in religoin the more crime, more laws and less freedom. Is it because God teaches us to fear him and how we should act but the less faith we have in God, the less we know how to act? Is it becoming apparent that religion became a source of cntrolling the masses, empowering a ruler, ie the Vatican, and now, I'm thinking Dawkins ( I was recommended reading it..I just don't have the attention span for it right now) so will it ulitmately mean that religions initial purpose is phasing out in this world today? Would it be a better world for mankind?
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