In my religious opinion

Welcome to our article (103), in my religious opinion

May God guide and help me write this religious article.

Dear readers, in this article, we are attempting to explain our religious theory in another way, in the hope that it is easier to understand, we want also to explain, how we have formed our religious beliefs, and how we see religions today.

We are calling this article “In my religious opinion”, because this article is about our religious beliefs, which are based mainly on my life experience, so, this article is about all those things that I have observed during my life, since some of them have changed my opinion. Anyhow, let me explain myself briefly what I mean, you see, every one of us, sees and understand things in our own ways, and from the way we understand those things, we form our own opinions. Anyhow, we want to share these opinions, because we believe that they are important enough to be shared with the rest of the world, since everybody believes in religion one way or another.

So, I want to share what I have learned from life, above all those things that have given me the opportunity to change my earlier opinion. So, I would like to tell you about my life story and how I formed my opinions, which could be interesting to read, since every one of us has a story to tell. Anyhow, in this article I am telling you only a few selected things that in my opinion are important enough to be told.

Now, because this article ‘In my religious opinion’, is going to be published as being part of my religious writings. Anyhow, I am going to tell you briefly, how I have reached my religious opinions. So, let us start by telling you what I have written and why.

You see, I have written about one hundred religious’ articles in Hub Pages; I have written them according to my religious opinion and my religious friend’s opinions. I have been able to write these religious articles, because I have discussed them with my friends, while we were reading religious books that we happen to have, or, from the books that we can find on the internet. Books like the Bible, Catholic Online, Book of Mormon, The Koran -- Simple Search, The Laws of Manu, and any other religious articles that we have found here and there. So, today I have formed my opinion about religions, which I want to share with the public.

But before I write my opinions, I want to tell you that to write these religious articles is not easy; because, whoever wants to write them has got to have some deep religious beliefs, one should feel a sort of mystic within oneself, and above all, has got to believe that he is doing the right thing even if it is hard to do. In other words, one must feel that is doing his duty, as a religious believer and a good citizen, which is like what I have written in my site, http://frankmenchise.com, the duty of any human being.

Since I believe that I am that type of person, I am going to write these religious articles, that can help humanity in the future, at least that is my humble opinion.

So, let me start talking about these religious issues that I have in mind, I will try to be brief, but I can see that I need to write a few articles to cover these religious issues that I have in mind.

Now, I want to inform you, that all my religious beliefs are based on spiritualty; however, for me God exists, and all other spiritual entities exist as well. Therefore, do not get me wrong, when you see me talking like an atheist, because, sometimes we need to do that to make our point of view, which might not be in line with some mainstream religious beliefs.

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If we want to talk about religions, in my opinion we need to talk about the need that we the people of this world have for religions. Now, to prove that we need religions, we need to read history books, or look at some ancient monuments to see what ancient people believed in: like the Egyptian pyramids, we can find some religious explanation in the Egyptian Book of the Dead - The Nazarene Way, or the Greek and Roman’s gods and goddesses statues that are still around today. These old monuments that exist today, is the proof that most civilizations have believed in gods and supernatural forces.

So, a long time ago, people believed in their Gods and spiritual beings, in many ways. Because of these widespread beliefs, we must assume that we have this need within us that makes us want to have a spiritual life, so, we can live forever, and we want a God to guide us, therefore, religions are born from this need that we have. It has been so since the beginning of our recorded times.

I believe that religions have been used to explain things, which half the time was only guesswork, so, sometimes they were right and sometimes wrong. Anyhow, all religions have been used to explain the existence of life and spirituality. We can say that religions have been used, to explain how life and everything else has begun, since most religions explain the beginning of the existing life and the world in their own ways.

Apart from religions explaining how everything began, and the creation of life, religions have been used to control people, because religions are a set of rules that the followers of that religion must use, when they practice that religion. Therefore, religions are useful to humanity, when they are made the right way and used the right ways.

In the past, there have been many religions, some of those religions were good for humanity, so, the best of them are still in existence today.

There have been religions that were strange, but they were not that bad and therefore useful for humanity, during the time that they existed. But there have been religions, so horrendous that today we would through their religious leaders in jail, lock them up and throw away the keys; here I am talking about those religions that used human sacrifice.

Now, I have talked about the religions that exist and have existed in the world, because I want to point out that man needs religions, and for this reason, man has invented religions for his own needs. So, all existing religions have been created by man, and all religions can be changed by man, if there is a need to change them, this is my opinion about religions that I have formed during my life.

But even though religions have been created by man. We believe that the spiritual side that most religions use exists. Therefore, it would be unwise to say, that God does not exist.

You see, some spiritual things must have happened to people in the past, which was close to the ways that religions explain their beliefs, at the beginning of their religious books and beliefs. Today we can question what could have happened and why, and ask if it was just our human imagination, that has invented God; but the fact remains that, Man needs God, and we have to admit that we do. But then, what sort of God does humanity need. we may wonder, because we need a God for all humanity and not a group of people. So, this is one of the reasons why, I am writing these articles.

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So, now that we have explained that in our own opinion, all religions have been created by man, because “man needs God” and religions. Therefore, most of the gods that we believe in, have been described by man, even though there might have been spiritual happenings, or somebody had a vision or a dream, that prompted them to tell other people whatever they saw or dreamed about. The fact remains, that we can say that man has described God, and religions according to mankind needs. Here we are talking about the needs that mankind had when these religions were written down for the first time.

One of the most known facts that we can talk about here, it is about Moses on Mount Sinai, the vision that Moses had on Mount Sinai, led to the beginning of the Bible and the Hebrew religion. The Hebrews needed a leader, a God and a religion that could deliver them from the Egyptian slavery, and this is exactly what happened. Here I want to point out that even though I believe that God exists, the rest of the religion that followed, Moses vision, was written to fix the need that the Hebrew people had at that time.

Now, because different groups of people had different needs, they invented or created their own gods and religions according to their needs. So, today there are too many gods and religions in the world. As we know, the religions that exist today are different to each other. This difference can be explained in certain ways, God is different at different times, because people have different needs. I hope that I have explain myself clear enough about our views.

Anyhow, we believe that today religious needs are different from the past because we are slowly becoming a more equal society with equal needs. This is happening because today people move more easily from one place to another, so, isolation is not the trend anymore. Now, because of these people movement, people need a religion that is flexible enough, and that allows enough room for other religions to be compatible with. But the old rigid religions are not flexible enough, so, what can be done one may as well ask?

In our opinion, we believe that today we need a super God that is compatible with all existing religions, and that is able to deliver an idealistic religion, which can connect to existing religions, because that is what we need from God and religions these days. You see, in the past religious leaders have described their gods and religions, according to the needs that they had in those days, which was isolation from other religious groups. But today isolation cannot be achieved anymore, since people move willingly and freely from one place to another, therefore, in my opinion, we need to describe God and religions according to what we need today. I know that what I am saying here sounds almost outrageous, but in my opinion, this is what we need today, which is a super God that can connect all existing religions together.

I believe that we have said enough in this article, and since I have a lot more to say about my religious opinion, I must leave them for our next article. So, see you in our next article, where we are going to explain and compare how we see the existing religions of today, and start imagining how they can fit in our religious theory of the future, which we believe can be achieved, if we have a super God above all other Gods.

See you, in our next article, in my mystic religious opinion.

May God bless us all.

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