Ever really noticed that you are alive? Notice that the chair you sit in is not alive. There is an obvious difference. But what is this thing called "life". What is life?
Life is able to control the world around it. It seems to be able to communicate. Life displays emotion, which is a reflection of life in some way.
So what is religion? Religion appears to be people trying to work out what life is, and how its works.
If I understood what life really was, could I be happier? Life seems to enjoy things from the physical universe - money - food - drink - sex - but these same things do not bring total happiness - but do seem to have some bearing on it - but they seem to centre on the body. They seem to be connected to the senses. It would further seem that life has to consider these sensations in some way to be happy.
Religion appears to be where a group of people have agreed on some answer or answers to the above, and those people in turn feel and experience that their own experiences are correct. They promote it.
But really life seems to be more complex than that. So no single religion may yet have the absolute ultimate answer. Maybe this is why there are so many religions, and even variations of religions. But, because there are so many variations, it does not mean that any one of them is wrong, as religion seems to work for that particular person or that group. And as no religion has a monopoly yet with the absolute ultimate answer, then perhaps the rest of us could respect those who are at least having a go to work it out, and maybe even try one or two ourselves.
Maybe nothing has gone wrong with man's religions to date. Maybe it is very survival to have many different groups looking for the ultimate absolute answer to life and beyond. Maybe with more people searching, experiencing, that absolute ultimate answer will happen. Perhaps our religions just have not evolved enough yet. Possibly it could be that man has not evolved enough yet to experience the absolute ultimate answer.
As to God, his existence could be considered to be the absolute allness of all I think. But some say that God confuses us with so many mixed messages. Yet, if God was an absolute allness of all (and if someone has a better definition please supply one) maybe it is not God sending out mixed messages that confuses us. Maybe it is man that has the confusion by receiving mixed signals. What do you think?
