Do you believe that religion can prevent people from moving forward in their lives?

Question

Poor people who are religious say that they are destined to be poor, so they don't try to do their best or have a future dream. They teach this to children and children grow up without any dreams. I think having a future goal is one step to freeing themselves from something that is suffering them (poverty). This is one example.

Another example is when religious people have problems, they run to God and expect God to solve them instead of thinking for themselves and taking action. If something good happens they worship God, if something bad happens they ask God why He didn't help them. I think, in this kind of situation, religion prevents people from taking action or taking responsibility of their own problems.

What do you think?

Answer 1

Who said so.. I guess u r taking about a very few people who u hav met.  

Answer 2

No not at all

Answer 3

yes. Yes I do.

Answer 4

I believe that this is the case a lot of the time, and that religion can discourage people not to work towards making their lives better, even if it's just slightly.

On the other hand, sometimes religion can help people move forward with their lives, by helping them heal the pain in their past.  

Answer 5

Your assumptions are false. Therefore, I cannot agree.

Answer 6

Religion is the worst thing to ever be invented. It is not of God or for the people. All religion is a sham.

And you can not blame God for what you yourself choose to do. God gifted us Free Will. You use your Free Will to choose not to believe. All the power to you.

God is Love, Love is God.

Trust Love.

Peace, love, calm and positivity to all.

Answer 7

I thought religious people tended to be more on the republican side.  Republicans teach personal responsibility.  Its the dems that like to force everyone else to take responsibility.

Answer 8

As they say....DUH.

Answer 9

I agree with you.

Answer 10

i agree.

i definitely agree.

Answer 11

I'd say it's more a matter of any type of extremism giving folks those feet of concrete...religion is okay as long as it doesn't reach the obsession point...then it's just another obstacle someone's got to overcome...

Answer 12

Well, religion was the cause of the Dark Ages.

So, I have to agree with you there.

Answer 13

What are you talking about? Im sorry but i don’t know what religion you speak of can you elaborate.

Answer 14

Absolutely!!

Science has shown atheists have a higher intelligence than people with a strong religious faith. The difference is 5.8 points according to findings in developmental psychology!!!    

More members of the "intellectual elite" considered themselves atheists than the national average.

Only 7 percent of members of the American National Academy of Sciences believed in God. Whilst only 3.3 percent believed in God in the UK’s Royal Society.

Several Gallup poll studies of the general population have shown that those with higher IQ’s tend not to believe in God."

Evolution in action with Christians getting left behind like the monkeys and apes before them!!!

Answer 15

I was JUST thinking about this on my way home from work this afternoon, and YES! I do believe that...

Look at the mid-east... those guys are stuck in the stone age because of Islam. They could be a bustling, very high society culture like the Saudis, but instead they are stuck in the mud of a false ideology from 1500 years ago. Go figure.

Answer 16

No I do not believe religion is the cause,rather the fanaticism in the religion.In any religion the believer has his responsibility or role to play.Any higher power requires that the believer lives by a set of rules or principles and believe in set system and historical facts about the religion.The Christians have the 10 commandments,We Muslims have the five pillars of Islam,and all have the Golden Rule or some variation of Do onto others as you would have them do onto you

Answer 17

Religion is just another form of oppression, absolving people of taking responsibility for their own actions.  "The hands that help are better far than lips that pray," wrote Robert G. Ingersoll. Who could disagree?

Answer 18

Any life philosophy can be damaging when taken to the extremes.  Religious philosophies are no different.  A lot of people are just looking for an excuse, religion is as convenient as any other, but if they didn't have it they'd just find something else instead.

Check out the joke in my sources, it's pretty much how I look at it.

Answer 19

Duh!