Mainstream Religion Decline

People who sway away from mainstream religion are making a bad choice because if they understand what religious text implies, then they would never neglect it. Most people who give up or lose their religion act out of personal anger and probably never trusted the scripture in the first place. If you embrace the religion all over again, then you should know it will only bring benefits to your life. Religious scripture seems outdated in today’s world of science. We live in a world that is very advanced. Scientists have become our new holy priests but I still believe the old religious texts make for some good sublinimal stories. The old religious scripture may sound outlandist to many of the science people but it’s best not to take it too literal at times. Parables are very informative. Like Heaven and Hell. Heaven could mean “Space” and I could admit it could be confusing. Besides my belief in hell being a state of mind, I dont believe in the “afterlife hell” like a fiery pit full of Baphomets where you will live on forever and etc.

In response to Faith vs Free will. I guess our freedom to choose from two ultimate roads in life will eventually always merge in the end. This thread has made this a little more clear for me. It’s a tough topic . I actually would love to admit that I live for the good of god !. The good half of course. People who had bad things happen to them usually become bitter. But don’t become angry and full of negative energy. Sometmes, the balance of the universe demands that there always has to be an evil half of the good. We have Day and Night, Positive energy and Negative, protons and electrons, Joy and Pain, sadness and Happiness, Matter and Antimatter, Angels and Demons, Etc..I could go on and on. Nature gives us Sunshine and horrible Tornadoes. It’s hard to accept and unfortunate that we can’t be happy all the time so just relish all the good moments in your lives. But what about people who die horrible deaths, or for example the innocent victims of a plane crash? Some people might say…”why does god allow such horrors” . I say the consciousness we share learns collectively. If the Columbia spacecraft did not blow up after descending into our atmosphere in 2002, then NASA would of never permitted the astronauts to perform heat tile inspections and modify the external fuel tank. Sometimes we need to wake up and smell progress through tragic events..cosmos from chaos.