Quote from: BADecker on October 08, 2019, 01:15:42 PM

Quote from: Artemis3 on October 07, 2019, 11:16:58 PM

Quote from: Malsetid on October 03, 2019, 08:34:45 AM

Hey guys. I've been watching a lot of debates on youtube about this topic where theists, apologetics, philosophers, scientists, agnostics and atheists discuss whether religion has a monopoly over what people perceive to be right or wrong. Guys like WLC, Sam Harris, Jordan Peterson, Frank Turek, Richard Dawkins etc. Go after each other's throats to prove their points and honestly, i think every one of them has a valid argument.

What do you think?

Religion does NOT have a monopoly, but it certainly can help, unfortunately in some aspects it can also harm and leave people misled in darkness.

So, as everything in life, it depends. It doesn't even depend on the religion, but on the person.

Informal religion has a monopoly in the lives of everyone:

Quote from: https://www.dictionary.com/browse/religion?s=t

religion
[ ri-lij-uh n ]

noun

...

6. something one believes in and follows devotedly; a point or matter of ethics or conscience:
to make a religion of fighting prejudice.

So, everything in life depends on the person's religion, because God controls everything in life based on His desires, and how the person's individual religion conforms to His desires.

Cool

I too have the same thinking. A person lives through his religion, soon after the birth of a child, he/she gets baptized which is the initial point. From there onwards we are into the hands of God. We desire for something, and we strive hard to get it. Same time one next to us doesn't have a desire but he gets what we desire for. This is how God makes us strong in all ways and gives us when we hardly need it.