[stefanhendriks]

i find religion an interesting subject. I am not religious, but i do not believe in 'nothing' or in a predefined existance you can read from books or hear by people telling it. I do believe there is more between life and death as between heaven and earth...

Personally i have experienced things that make me 'fear' life of what it will bring to me; i have had long talks about this with PMB. As i'm also a fan of The Matrix and tried for fun comparing the 'theories' presented there into real life. It actually is not that hard to say, it is possible!

Lets just say, everything has the basic definitions of:
action->reaction

this is a fact, for everything in the entire universe. Meaning, when the universe started (assuming it started!), it started with a set of 'conditions' (that triggered it). Now, these action/reactions where the base for all actions/reactions going on right now. Even the fact that i am typing this, is because of an reaction/action based principle. Meaning, that everything that i have lived through was logically to be explained, and everything that will be coming in the future will be 'predictable'.

If you try to see the bigger picture, this means nobody lives their life as they 'want to'. Because even the very things in your brains are based upon action/reaction, etc etc etc.

Now, about religion, i see it as a way to explain what is not really explainable through logic. And people try to make it 'logical' for them in some sort of form.

I have read very cool stuff about religions, like there is (was?) a trend going on where people started mini-religions, ie, every person has its own religion and its widely accepted. You can see lots of churges run out empty because the people do not 'fit in'. As with many things, you cannot generalize people, so you cannot generalize religion either.

See, its such a big subject, i can talk about this for hours and hours....