mv_ufanisi wrote:digitek1 wrote:mv_ufanisi wrote:Religion is basically superstition. It's more reflective of "an ignorance is bliss attitude". That's why overly religious/superstitious institutions are not progressive. You have to rely on the atheists and the people bringing up uncomfortable questions for society to progress. Those people are thinking out of the box. The rest are with the pope when he says that the "world is flat" why? because God made it so. Right there brain goes to sleep.
And I have to say one of the reasons Africa is so behind the rest of the world is over religiousness and superstition. We need more thinkers than believers.
@Mv how about Jews- very religious yet very rich
People in Kenya overly glamorize the Jews. You should go there in Israel as a black (wo)man and see how they treat you like sh*t. You can check out on youtube how black people are treated in Israel.
Also if Jews are as amazing as a lot of Kenyans are led to believe by their pastors every Sunday, why isn't their country the best country in the world?
Jewish culture is similar to Indian culture in Kenya, they form a cartel and then it's hard for other people not using the same tactics to compete with them. That's why the Germans were pissed off with them. (Ofcourse that part never comes up in the Holocaust discussions which I think is self defeating because people are more horrified than educated and they don't think through things - cc Rwanda)
The problem with religion is that it leads people to shut down their brains. So it's hard for anything meaningful to come out. Why do you think so many Kenyans go to church or mosque like sheep yet only 200 years ago we were all following our own religions?
Most Kenyans cram the bible or koran like a scientific document but then alas they are none the wiser apart from being able to quote versus and get overly emotional about a white guy from Israel or Arabia.
That's why the black man has nothing much to show in the way of coming up with new ideas and technology. African culture is too focused on getting everyone to think and look the same.
@mv you've raised very good questions. Religion doesn't stop people from thinking. You will agree that there are intelligent people who are also religious. I know you'll argue that but the non-religiuous are more richer etc. And it's because most of them don't follow the legal ways of making money at all times. @digitek has put it very clearly that most of those you think control the world did this through the crude ways. Playing rough.
Religion means a believe in a super-human controlling power, a personal god or gods that deserve worship.
Why do you need a religion?
You see, normally when you get a machine, a complicated machine, along with it you get an instruction manual. Why do you require an instruction manual? The answer is to understand the machine, because you don't know the machine.
SO if you allow me to call the human being the machine, you'll have to it is the most complex machine on the face of the earth.
Don't you think this requires an instruction manual?
The manual for human beings came in the form of scriptures.
Just like you have instruction manual written by an inventor of a machine, our manufacturer our producer our Creator Almighty God. He knows what is best for the human being. So based on this, Almighty God Has given the rules and regulations. For example when you buy a DVD player, it tells you if you want play they DVD, insert the DVD, press the play button. If you want to do fat-forward, press the forward button... to skip press skip button, don't drop it from a height it will get damaged. Don't submerge it in water it will get spoil.
There is an instruction manual!Similarly, Allah (God Almighty) has written the Dos and Don'ts for the human being.