Religion is an institution established by man for various reasons. Exert control, instill morality, stroke ego, or whatever else it does. Organized structured religions, all but remove God from the equation. One confesses their sins to a clergy member, worship in elaborate Churches, told what to pray and when. All these factors are not praising God.
Melford Spiro defines religion as a system of beliefs and practices that help individuals understand the meaning of life and their place in the world. He emphasizes that religion involves the acknowledgment of the supernatural and a set of rituals and moral codes that guide behavior.
Wojciech Szczesny, the professional footballer, is Catholic. His religious beliefs are personal to him and may not necessarily define his professional career.
Religion is often a much more personal matter. In most subjects of scholarly interest, one can make an experiment or define the numbers and facts involved by simple observation. However, religion can mean many things, even to the same person; members of the same religion can believe completely different things, and still both be very "right". Thus, religion is not so easy to pin down or study. Because of the long histories involved, and the often sketchy and sometimes contradictory details, it is highly difficult to pick what you are studying in the first place, let alone actually study it.
.0024 per cent. I have a difficult time beleiving a religion that numerically damns that many of its members.
It is difficult to give a fair answer due to lack of reliable statistical data. Everyone will claim that most converters convert to his/her religion. The other point, the number of converts to any religion is not necessarily indication of the superiority of the religion. The convert could for having better money earnings, better education chance, better chance for marriage, ..., or for having full faith and stronger belief in the new religion truthfulness and correctness.
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The concept of organization is difficult to define because it means many different things. An organization can be a one person operation or it can be a company that has thousands of employees.
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