Religon is it required?

"Religion is it required ?" a question by Clive , my English friend.
"not really if you have other means of discipline in the life" me
"why to you need discipline" Clive
"discipline , this word is used in the wider context here and it is required to have structure in the society. Bring in the respect to elders. Hierarchy in the family and to understand the importnace of relations"
"But there are many without any religion, so do you mean they do not have discipline" Clive
"No , I think it is other way round the one do not discipline is not following any religion"
"This going nowhere" Clive
" Example , you do not follow any Faith but you get marred in the Church , follow all rituals after death, so if you look at it carefully they are part of the discipline of the some religion.
some one has helped you in understanding difference between good and bad thery by enabled to make choices. Importance of helping other was also told to you inderetly thereby doing charity and so on"

"so faith is discipline" Clive
"Yes, and without discipline we will be no less than heard of cattle and would not have any values built in to relationships."
"I will not say I agree 100% but I understood what you mean " Clive


After this discussion , I could not find answer to the question that what would I be without any religion. Still scratching the brain ...............

For many of friend like Clive here is one of many links to feed your gray cells.

http://www.open2.net/historyandthearts/philosophy_ethics/philosophy_p.html