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religion is part of every human race culture. They establish the value of belief on every culture, and they expect their counterpart to follow the exactly same pattern, and share with as many as possible. So, what exactly is religion? Does people find guidance from the belief of certain religion? or did people find real comfort from it? So many claimed that in believing in certain religion, they will be free of suffering, and free of their troubling soul, is it a truth or a mystical speech?

Around our world, Christianity, Protestant, Buddhism, Muslim etc….. thousands of religion spread around this world. They all have their own Gods, or a symbol for people to worship. From the symbol, they depicted its appearance, its story, its origin. There were always manual, books to trace its originality, and its missions for people to follow. For celebration, they establish a certain date for people to gather together and worship its being. So, religion is one big powerful force to bring a large group of people together, and instill its instructions and knowledge.

I believe that some religions did spread out the good thoughts to people. From history, Christianity was widely spread to the world. Missionaries from the Western risked their lives to travel to Africa, Eastern to spread its belief and thoughts. In hope more people from different culture to join this force, and spread it out to more people. They do charities to others, especially the third world country. They upheld humanity, freedom of teaching, and freedom of religion. They even help build schools for the poor who couldn’t afford to go to school. They built clinic and hospitals to help the sicks. These good deeds should be spread out further more.

Some people can even use religion as a brain wash weapon to instruct its people do malicious deeds. They use religion to recruit people to do destructive work, to kill, to sacrifice in the name of their Gods. They make them truly believe that even sacrifice their lives, they will be reborn to be a greater being again. People who believe into these instructions are becoming terrorists. They do what they were told in the name of their Gods.

So religion can be a powerful force to be used by people on different purpose. It can be used to do good things to people who believe it, and spread out the good deeds everywhere else. Or it can be used a destructive force, to recruit people to do bad things. Religion is a comforting belief for people to seek guidance when they lost. How we are going to promote it, and what we are going to preach?

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