The reason for this is because they believed to have to do this so their god can spare their life.
Yes, this is the most important decision of the life for any human being to choose the right religion. Because life after death depends on it. And life after death will last forever. It will never be end. _______________ It is not a problem. The problem is that there IS a choice from among so many alternatives. What is that saying about the nature of the world and about whether or not there is a deity? Most religions are systems where some individual or elite group takes control of the general population. That is purely human; where is the deity in that? Religion is people being people, but dressing their motives with theology.
It is all a question of faith. Some people gain comfort in their faith (of any religion) that there is an afterlife. Others believe differently, and believe that there is no life after death. It is up to each individual to make their own choice.
Freedom of religion refers to people's rights to believe and practice their religion, NOT to violate OTHER people's rights.
Well, Some people did.
This is more of a religion question. In my religion (Mormon) we go to a spirit world, and then to heaven.
Religion is a learned universal institution stemming from the fear of the unknown; namely, death. Where there is fear, there is religion.Answer:Religion is a universal phenomenon because of the ancient shared tradition of all mankind.
Some people's family's influence their choice of religion by telling them which one is the best one a a young age. People might choose Christianity because they believe strongly in how Christians worship god or because they believe that it is the right way to go...
church controlled most of the Europe and their kings. Black Death changed people's faith.
Afghanistan gives automatic death penalty without trial in some cases of people who don't do crimes, but are not followers of the president of Afghanistan's religion, the muslim religion.
That's sort of like saying what people think happens in American after death. Mexico has no defined religion so therefore no 1 afterlife.
There was a huge amount of bigotry at the time with the country changing from Protestism to Catholicism and back again according to the religion of an incoming monarch and people were put to death for following the 'wrong' religion. It was so bad that anything that went wrong was blamed on people of the 'wrong' religion or foreigners.
Religion was originally made by men with power. Smart men who could read and could preach to those who were ignorant. Back when religion was created the only ones who could read were the ones who wrote the bible. Religion has caused many wars and the most death to mankind. Over thousands of years it gave people different views which lead to people believing in different things. It's basically a fabricated story to give people hope, to control, and ease the fear of death. Still to this day religion is causing wars and death in the name of different gods. Organized religion is going to be the fate of humanity.