It's All Relative: Why Perspective is Everything

[Locrian]

Well surely the whole concept of God was proposed to answer the question of why we exist.

There is no evidence for this statement. On the contrary, the "why" part is an afterthought in many religions - if it is dealt with at all.

 

[bd1976]

I might be wrong but isn't the whole point of religion to answer the questions that can't be answered by science?

 

[dekoi]

I don't understand why some people continue post replies while totally ignoring some of the previous, correct statements made about the importance of asking 'why'.

And I am seeing a bit of a contradiction here; you're critisizing asking 'why' while asking so yourself. :/

We ask the question “Why?” because if we did not, our world would be trapped in a still trance world; therefore, history would not be maintained and philosophy, science, and mathematics would simply be devoid of any progress. Thus, we ask this question because it is what keeps human knowledge progressing. Why contemporary society is so infatuated with passivism is beyond my comprehension.

Yes we will all die and yet death really is but a door to a continuance of life. Your life is about it's experience, in living it. As time goes onward, your presence in the here and now is what makes your life, gives it depth, shows you questions shows you answers. Yes, sometimes, it does suck and sometimes it is great. These are tempoary things, for life is not about the highs and lows, it is about what is. When you get to what is you will know it's purpose. You are not ready right now as I am not. I was once given this in a vision/dream. When I recalled it that day it physically saved my life and potentially the lives of others. There was no doubt, no question, no answer only the knowing of what is. Don't speak, bite the bullet and go for the gusto, ask the question to yourself if you are really interested in it. If you do this, the universe must answer you. It is physics, it must comply. Life is logical, the illogic is our disconnectedness from it's reality.

 

[Enos]

I ask why before i get answers.

 

[Locrian]

I might be wrong but isn't the whole point of religion to answer the questions that can't be answered by science?

I wouldn't think religious people would agree with you. Turning any deity into a "god of the gaps" where they just fill in what we haven't learned for ourselves is cheap and demeaning to most religions. Religion is not that shallow, as it contains many other goals I would include in its "points." It is also not that flexible. There are "questions" science has answered that religious people simply do not accept because it conflicts with their religion.

If the entire point of religion is to give a reason why we exist, as you stated earlier, then surely this reason would be given immediately in any religious text. It isn't. I'm not saying it isn't buried in there somewhere, but I can't see any case made that it is the primary reason a religion exists.

Of course, you could build a strong case that a very central message is how, a rather different question entirely.