It’s estimated that there are 2.365 billion Christians, 1.907 billion Muslims, 1.152 billion Hindus, 506 million Buddhists, and 1.193 billion people who are Secular/Nonreligious/Agnostic/Atheist.
These numbers reveal one undeniable truth: we live in a religious world.
There is a lot of good that comes with religion – from the laid down beliefs and morals which give us a sense of purpose and direction in life, down to the community and systems in place that provide support religion can serve critical roles in our lives. However, religion is prone to becoming harmful – to the point of traumatising its members.
Faith is a word that is revered by many people but abhorred by many others. For example, most religious and spiritual people think it is the secret to miraculously bringing their desires to reality, while many non-religious people think faith in that regard is simply self-delusion and has no relevance in the cold-indifferent world we find ourselves in.
However, faith on its own is a neutral concept, and given the right context, can be something very powerful to understand, cultivate, and deploy in overcoming life’s confusion, and difficulties to achieve success and happiness.
I am not sure God is angry with you because many of us have thought, said, and done unspeakable things yet we haven’t experienced any divine retribution like in the old testament stories.
millions of opinions and truths get thrown about, and each is usually backed up strongly with or without evidence, and that is why we need to understand what is confirmation bias and take a further step to even question our questions
Nature and Life are beyond good and bad, because those are just our judgements
