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What do you think is the reason for so many old people being religious?
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What do you think is the reason for so many old people being religious?
i think it's because they are going to die soon so they believe in something because if what they at least believe in their religion is true they'll go to heaven, or whatever their version of heaven is for whatever religion they believe. Another thing I think is because many old people come from long time ago where things were different and peope were more religious than in modern times. This is what i think please don't get angry, but you can think on what i think about what this thread makes you thinks.
I thinks they listened to their former old timers, who listened to their former old timers who listened to their former old timers and so on and so on, all the way back to where religion was born. Remember the old trick the teacher did in the classroom where she wispered in the first students ear and asked them to pass it on down from person to person with a whisper and by the time it got to the last person, it wasn't exactly like what she stated to the first person? Thats the "modern times" people of now, losing and not listening to exactly what is said from todays old timers who were or are more respectable and listened to their former old timers, who told them about religion from the beginning. I thinks most of them "old people" are cramming for the final exam and you might better listen to them old timers.
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... Remember the old trick the teacher did in the classroom where she wispered in the first students ear and asked them to pass it on down from person to person with a whisper and by the time it got to the last person, it wasn't exactly like what she stated to the first person?
You do know there was about 500-years passed between the time Moses came down from the mountain and someone actually writing down what Moses said and did. That's kind of like passing along the story of Christopher Columbus's Atlantic crossing and just now, today, getting around to making the written record of it.
I think potentially it has more to do with the passing of age, all the change the elder have seen. To live but 20-25 years one hasn’t seen much, but to live 75-90 years one has seen and been exposed to much change. Change that scares many, haunts their mind and distresses their heart. The world many of you live in is not the place families should be raised in, yet life carries on. Evolution is changing the world around us and unfortunately it is only getting worse. I think much pray is needed for future generations. Do the elder pray for them self or do they pray for those left behind to carry the torch into the night? Personally I would pray for the latter!
You do know there was about 500-years passed between the time Moses came down from the mountain and someone actually writing down what Moses said and did. That's kind of like passing along the story of Christopher Columbus's Atlantic crossing and just now, today, getting around to making the written record of it.
Well, thats a good observation there Eyeball but I think most people are concerned with what happened around the birth of Christ, not thousands of years BC. There is a written record of all these events, that has been passed down since the birth of religion by old timers that I mentioned above.
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Biggest thing is young people do not think they are gonna die anytime soon and as people get older they realize death is inevitable and you better have your heart right witht he Lord.
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Have found the opposite. Been around convalescent homes the last 6 years. Most are bitter not religious. I see more religion with young people. When I was a kid religion was one hour on Sunday. Now even kids talk about it and have bible study clubs in school. Never had Christian Rock, mega churches and Evangelism aoirnd here. And no one brought up religion in social events. I think it is growing with young people much more than the old. Just my observation.
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Why do Christians always think anything to do with god or religion is something they own? Christianity is the new kid on the block. Nobody knows what Jesus of Nazareth actually said. It was something like 50-60 years after his death that the first stories got written down. None of the authors in the Christian Bible, except possibly Matthew, ever even met the man. To claim that the verbal versions of his teaching that they eventually had passed down to them was verbatim is, well, it's pretty well impossible. Too many other humans in the chain with their own agendas, too many translations of what someone heard from someone else.
If Jesus had said "throw out the priests who collect your money and chunk the kings while you're at it"....do you really think that would have been reprinted by the priests who collect money and allowed by the kings? nah.
But anyhow, that's a drift off topic. It's just funny that all these religions say that THEIRS is the only true one.
To claim that the verbal versions of his teaching that they eventually had passed down to them was verbatim is, well, it's pretty well impossible.
Part 1: Don't most (certainly not ALL) Christians in the English-speaking lands use the King James version? Did the biblical characters speak ENGLISH? Of course it's not verbatim. Do you think the Old Testament was written in Hebrew? Or Aramaic? How many years after the events? What natural phenomena that we are aware of today were thought of as miracles back then? Who wrote about these strange events? Indeed, how many people were actually literate back then? Translations of any language are colored by the translator's own interpretations of the actual words. In the bibles used today, we probably have translations of other translations or interpretations for that matter (like a prevous poster implied, like the kids' game of TELEPHONE.).
Part 2: Now, as far as the OP goes, I don't necessarily agree that older people are more religious as they approach death. They may be living in facilities where religious services may be more or less required, or at least it's a place to go and do SOMETHING. Or maybe, it just the old memories that take over as dementia rolls in, or maybe it's just the "no-atheists-in-foxholes" principle.
My time coming, anyday, don't worry bout me, no
It's gonna be just like they say, them voices tell me so
Seems so long I felt this way and time sure passin' slow
Still I know I lead the way, they tell me where I go
For Gringo: No eyewittnesses?????? Geez, the bible is FULL of eyewitness accounts. Mainly in the New Testament. Start with 2 Peter 1:16 and keep reading. You may learn a few things.
Maybe religion was created to keep people in check. My neighbor thinks aliens placed us on earth to study us like a virus and to see how quick we will destroy ourselves.
What do you think is the reason for so many old people being religious? 
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