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Essay / Abuse of religion - 1728
Abuse of religion December 14, 2006"And an old priest said: Tell us about religion. And he said: Did I speak of anything else today? Religion n is it not only acts and all reflection And what is neither an act nor a reflection, but a wonder and a surprise always arising in the soul, even while the hands cut the stone of the loom? Who can separate his faith from his action, or his belief from his occupations? Who can spread his hours before him, saying: “This for God and this for my soul and this for my body”? - Kahlil Gibran As our civilization reaches its peak, it is evident that it was created to destroy itself. Our past is the greatest proof of this theory. Over the centuries, humanity has attempted to destroy itself. self-destruction. The First and Second World Wars were only the manifestation of this destruction. After these wars, everything was devoted to the production of the most effective weapons for what we call "protection". Why end life? Why destroy the only thing we have? What happened to God's Ten Commandments? Religion was created to help humanity overcome its fears and negative aspects. But man would not be a man if he did not change his trajectory. Individual beliefs have been merged to organize religion, which has been distanced from the individuals to whom it belongs. The politicization of organized religion has caused an “eternal” struggle for the separation of church and state. However, the separation never took place despite the beliefs; The influence of the Church has been hidden within political systems. Despite its peaceful nature, organized religion has been modified over the centuries and has become one of the most dangerous reasons for murder, destruction and strife over the separation of church from state and the role of the Church in politics. groups of people or tribes, supports the hypothesis that most, if not all, of these tribes had some form of religion. Why is this? Obviously, they needed it. Life was very threatening and they believed that some of these treats came from higher beings, some of whom inhabited the sky. So they tried to figure out how to appease these gods by performing rituals. Whenever a threat lessened or disappeared after performing a ritual, they assumed it was due to the ritual. Whenever a threat did not lessen or disappear after performing a ritual, they tried to change it..