tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8772491888812684500.post2465971900646583592..comments2024-03-13T03:05:17.980+08:00Comments on Singapore Notes: Time Out For ReligionTattlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11037010707866164010noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8772491888812684500.post-51670296739274525832014-09-09T10:39:08.803+08:002014-09-09T10:39:08.803+08:00Life is a journey, we come naked, aged, sickness a...Life is a journey, we come naked, aged, sickness and death is the end. I quote from Buddha: "No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path. Do not what is evil. Do what is good."<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8772491888812684500.post-21793804537551412292014-09-09T10:14:38.022+08:002014-09-09T10:14:38.022+08:00And perversion of religion - Prosperity Gospel.
Hu...And perversion of religion - Prosperity Gospel.<br />Huat Ah!!!<br />Khong Hee Huat Chye!!!Thehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02941744057903049051noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8772491888812684500.post-69365304864262883432014-09-08T20:47:07.354+08:002014-09-08T20:47:07.354+08:00We turn to religion because we fear the unknown.
...We turn to religion because we fear the unknown.<br /><br />But if we understand and accept that once we expire & die, we need not fear. We simply die. Thats it.<br /><br />Soul...? who knows? this requires faith & belief... and this is the unknown that all religions exploit, to great effect and as can be seen through centuries, enormous human tragedies.<br /><br />I believe just die and thats it. life & death is just thatnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8772491888812684500.post-20849098505859035742014-09-08T19:44:45.992+08:002014-09-08T19:44:45.992+08:00Indeed.
Religion was useful when civilization wa...Indeed. <br /><br />Religion was useful when civilization was still finding its feet: the (imaginary) threat of an pervasive, supernatural entity was perhaps necessary in enforcing social mores in an age when rights were obtained and trampled upon by force. <br /><br />Today, however, it is like a child's dirty, smelly security blanket, long overdue for the trash can. <br /><br />It is no coincidence that religion is mostly an afterthought in the most literate, non-violent societies, like the Scandinavian countries today; in stark contrast, the byword in the most illiterate, violent parts of the world now - like the Middle East - is usually some variation of "god is great". <br /><br />When can humankind finally get rid of the childish bogeyman that is god? <br /><br />One holds out hope that believers today will realise their gods are no more real than those forgotten deities the Egyptian, Greeks and Romans used to worship. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com