Does religion do more harm than good?

Answer 1

People has done bad not religion because there are good and bad followers in every religion. The correct thing to do is to judge a religion by its documented revelation from God and the prophet who brought that revelation.

A: 2

Religion is responsible for most of the bigotry, oppression and wars in the world. Many people throughout the world have been oppressed, enslaved and slaughtered because of religion. Women have been persecuted and denigrated because of religion.

Religions and their Gods, has had more to do with human selfishness and greed than with righteousness, piety, compassion and spirituality.

The many greedy charlatans enjoy success and prosperity from the exploitation of gullible and impressionable individuals, while the weak and less affluent individuals are fooled with false promises of a paradise called Heaven, which can only be accessed after death.

It is an established fact that religion can be a very effective and rewarding tool in the hands of shrewd individuals. It can be used to enrich oneself financially or spiritually. It can also be used to manipulate and control others for good or evil ends.

It has been used as an effective political and commercial tool as evidenced by the many historic records of religious wars.

Religious leaders have used their dogma to oppress, victimize and terrorize those who refuse to subscribe to their particular brand of bigotry.

A: 3
Religion can be considered to have done more good than bad. But religion can not be blamed, just the people who use it. Generally from my understanding most religions try to teach good for what ever reason, people have easily manipulated the information to use in their own ways to get what they want. In my opinion I think it would be insane to think that without religion people would have had less wars/ more peace, they would simply have used different reasons or non at all to fight or gain more power, it is easy to blame something like religion but the right thing to blame would be human nature. Why blame religion? people created religion, blame the people, if they did not create religion there would be something else to blame, it is useless to blame something like religion.

Answer 2

There is no one thing called "religion." Rather, there are incredibly diverse forms of religious behavior, belief and experience found throughout human history and experience, in every society, culture and civilization known to man. Like anything so complicated, it is firmly bound up in both good and bad aspects of human behavior. Calling religion "good" or "bad" is above all a statement about the speaker's own beliefs. Often religious people emphasize only the good effects of religion and minimize the bad effects, while critics of religion emphasize the bad effects and minimize the good ones. Both religion and opposition to religion have been used to justify great atrocities.

Those who are irreligious may take different views of religion: Some nonbelievers consider any form of religion harmful, though some more so than others; other nonbelievers, even though they are not religious themselves, consider some forms of religion a good thing for individuals or for society. Those who are religious, of course, believe that some form(s) of religion (not necessarily all forms) is/are good both for individuals and for society.

Some non-Catholic Christians use the word "religion" in a negative way, meaning something like a set of rules and rituals that one follows outwardly without having any connection to a living relationship with God. But Catholics, among others, see this very differently, and understand religion as a way of having a living relationship with God.

Answer 3

Generally, I think, religion is a good thing. It is something to believe in and to have faith in.

But whenever you use 'good' or 'bad,' it is merely a question of opinion.

Some religions have been responsible for acts which many people would consider bad.

Answer 4

NO!

Religion is only as good as the people that apply it. Religion itself is neither good nor bad

This is an opinion. People think religion is good and helps people discover who they are and lets them find a voice. Others think religion is harmful because it has caused war and destruction. This war and destruction thing is true and is the cause for most wars/conflicts in the war. So technically religion does do more harm.

Religion may not be the thing which causes wars it is the people who belive in the religion.