Quote Originally Posted by Hulud
whats the point of it? a sense of belonging?

isnt religion supposed to be your own beliefs and its between you and your god/lack there of a god?

lets discuss this


The thing that bothers me about organized religions is the herd mentality.

"Herd mentality describes how people are influenced by their peers to adopt certain behaviors, follow trends, and/or purchase items"
If that is the logic that you're using to describe organized religion, then it would be no different from anything else. Car enthusiasm, frats, colleges, philosophy, scientology,... everything. People, in general, require themselves to have social influences and community in order to maintain themselves as a civilized people. Tracing people all the way back into history, mankind has always followed the same communal patterns of socialized groups. Evolutionists would also agree, studying the behavioral patterns of primates.

So if you see organized religions as utilizing the herd mentality, then yes, you are correct but again, it's not different from all other things.

Quick question: What would be considered disorganized or unorganized religion?