What Is Religion?

RELIGION:"a set of beliefs concerning the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe, esp. when considered as the creation of a superhuman agency or agencies, usually involving devotional and ritual observances, and often containing a moral code governing the conduct of human affairs(Dictionary.com)"

Wait...I thought that religion had only to do with God and Jesus Christ and worshiping them? 
Religions some of us may know are Catholic, Baptist, Jewish, Mormon, Buddhist, Presbyterian, Lutheran, Apostolic Lutheran, Muslim, etc.
Is that all religion is? Do you not have a religion if you're Atheist or Agnostic? Do you have no religion if everything you believe is based on scientific theories?
In my history class, we learned an acronym that represents all aspects of TRUE religion:


C-Creation Theory
E-Evolution Theory
N-Nothing
T-Transport Theory


This doesn't mean that you have a religion only if you go to church every Sunday, this means that whatever you believe is your religion. 
Believe in God? That's your religion. Believe in evolution? That's your religion. Believe in nothing? That's your religion. Believe that humans came from a different planet? THAT'S YOUR RELIGION.

Creation Theory: This basically states that you believe in a higher  power that created the universe. This doesn't necessarily mean just God, this includes Native Americans, Christians and Muslims, etc. So if the Greek believed in many Gods then did they believe in the creation theory? 

Evolution Theory: This is a scientific theory that states our Universe was created from a single atom exploding and expanding and always expanding(because the Universe is always growing). They believe that after Earth was created and balanced that we evolved. At first was bacteria and plants and then more complex forms began to evolve. Eventually this led to chimpanzees and then to humans.(They believe we are evolved from apes. Where is the proof?!)

Nothing: Say you don't believe in anything. You don't believe in God. You don't believe in a higher power. You don't believe in science. 


Transport Theory: This is a theory that a long time ago there were humans or aliens living on Mars. Today we can see that Mars is obviously not a livable environment for humans. There is proof that Mars could have been, at one time, very similar to Earth. Some people believe that once Mars began to show signs of becoming what it is today, that whatever was inhabiting Mars came to Earth and that we evolved from whatever life forms those were.

We are all human. Since we are human, we have to put our faith in something, it's just natural. Wait...how does "nothing" fit in there? 
Nothing is a religion because you PLACE YOUR FAITH in nothing.

There are, of course, many other theories, but these are just the basic ones. So what do you believe? 
There is no right or wrong answer because we don't  know for sure. We never will know 100% what happened.
That's the beauty of humanity. It's also the ugliest aspect of us.
It's beautiful because there is a lot of good that can come by us believing this and it's so amazing how many different choices there are. 
It's very ugly because people have fought wars over this. Over RELIGION. People have died.  I see why humanity causes wars, I just don't see the point. We should let other people live the way they want to. It's all good to go help protect another country, but what if they don't want you there? 
HUMANITY NEEDS TO SEE that we are so ARROGANT. We need to respect people and the way they live. We need to try to have love for everybody, because in the end, who knows how our lives will end up?


There are so many possibilities on this Earth. It's absolutely stunning to see and hear about all the different theories. So far, none of them have been proven  right...but none of them have been proven wrong. 


What do you believe?
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