What is your opinion on religious plurality?

Answer 1

Plurality, duality, it works for me. Many names and faces to the Divine. I see you're up to your usual tricks, O Advocative One.

Answer 2

O.k., I don 't have my notes in front of me to refer to, ( can't know evrything now can we). I believe plurality is the acceptance of all view point and beliefs and religions: Hence Pluralism , right ?
Is it possible that everything that man decides to believe in is accurate and other people are not in line with society if their views are challenged or confronted ?
So, lets say then that I believe in shooting people for God, this sould be allowed shouldn't it?
You know at one tme the earth was flat right ?
Well that was the thinking then, now we know better, right . Well imagine the person that first mentioned this concept . He must have been a threat to everyone in society, most anyway !
Because everyone who thought it was flat was thinking they knew it was right on . And then the guy who discovered it to be round he thought and knew that he was right !
So who was right ? One had to be right did it not ? Its plain out stupid or ( unknowledgeable ) to just say ,"( well, lets just allow everyone to believe in what they believe in and let's not bother starting an arguement or something, we dont want any of that now do we ? ). Yes, I say that is stupid thinking ! Thats what the govnmt. wants and thats what the Devil wants.. Everyone to be stupid .! And most people fall right into it !

Answer 3

I believe not only should the societies have religious pleurality, but individuals also should be pen to to getting spiritual guidnace from more than one sorces. If you can have multiple interests, can read more than one genre of books, listen to more than one type of music and eat food from all over the world, why can't you find inspirations from Bible, Kaballah, Gita, Tao Te Ching and Dhammapada all at the same time. I am open to all religions except for the part that they exclude other religions. Open to everything except narromindedness.

Answer 4

Well, truth is exclusive, and so are all worldviews. Otherwise there wouldn't be any different worldviews. So plurality doesn't work as far as all of them being true. But I believe in freedom of religion, so it's all good in the hood.

Answer 5

as opposed to religious hegemony? rephrased your question means "should people have the right to form their own views on religion?", it's tough to say no to that. The soviets tried banning religion, they believed it to be an instrument of class society and bourgeois oppression, I tend to agree with this view, but opinions can't be forced on people through the statute books. Science has now replaced religion as our societal grand narrative, as has a type of reason that's betrays our human essence just as much as most of the world's faiths, so in a way the question you ask is decreasing in it's relevance, as most organized religions decline (with the exception of Islam which continues to grow). To Conclude; we must have tolerance if we are to succeed as individuals, even if we feel that most people are making the wrong choices, leave people to their human erring, judge them in silence.

Answer 6

As a Christian, I feel that there is one supreme being (God ) and that people who worship other beings are misled. However, the supreme deities of Christianity, Islam and Judea are essentially the same in their characteristics, they just have different names. I have respect for any other persons beliefs, just because it is everybody's right to worship as they choose. If somebody worships purple goats from planet Weeeloombaaah and worships by eating goat hair sandwiches, I may think it's kind of strange, but I respect their right to woship thus.

Answer 7

In my belief there is one God. So I always believed that all monotheistic religions worshipped the same God. The differences between sects are largely a matter of interpretation or the areas of scripture on which they choose to concentrate.

But I have been wrong. The Koran, for example, absolutely forbids the intentional killing of the faithful. In that regard Allah and God are the same. But Allah doesn't mind the killing of members of other religions. Indeed, there are ample verses that clearly encourage it. Non believers are lost anyway, so they are of little consequnce. The God of Judaism and Christianity, on the other hand, clearly deplores it.

So we have one God who would not have his sons and daughters killing each other. And we have another God who welcomes and encourages it. That is not simply a matter of interpretation. So I conclude they cannot be the same God.

In Islam, that reaches a personal level. In most of Islam a man who kills his wife and children is not likely to face prosecution providing there are clear indications that his family was an offense to Allah. For example, a daughter who was raped would have offended Allah sufficiently to cause her death. And few courts in Islam would bother bringing the man to trial.

In countries whose law found its original basis in the Bible, it would be quite different. Indeed, one of Americas most famous mass murderers killed his family presumably because they were in danger of losing their souls. He slipped away and started another life. But the manhunt never ended, and he was eventually caught, tried, and convicted. The God of the Bible gave no basis for such actions.

Even in much of Islam, the actions of terrorists are not accepted because they so clearly defy the Koranic injunction against intentional murder of Moslems, It is hard to argue there was anything accidental about the killing of Moslems when a bomber walks into a Mosque during prayer and blows up worshippers. If there is no one there but Moslems, the intent is obviously to kill Moslems. When Saudi Arabia (finally) figured that out about Al Qaeda, they cracked down so hard that even Al Zawahiri would later say that Al Qaeda had been "destroyed" in Saudi Arabia.

As for the terrorists, they speak often of Allah. But I believe they worship still another God. There was an older, more bloodthirsty God in the region called Baal. Osama Bin Laden appears to be his High Priest. Because of that, even some Moslems seek to track him down. But most do not because, even if he is not a Muslim, he pretends to be. And for many Moslems that is enough reason to protect him.

So it appears that some worship a God of Life. Others worship a God of Death. The god of Life easily accepts the attacks of atheists on his followers in good grace. They are the same as the siblings of some of us who considered themselves to be God and ran away from home at an early age to follow there own agendas. The God of Life tells us we should love them as brothers and sisters. Those like them who live in Islam long ago learned to hold their peace. Any who failed in that have left us.

I wish I could still believe that men worship only one God.

Answer 8

I prefer no religion at all thanks.

When it comes down to it you can arrive at the same types of moral answers philosophically, which is exactly why some religions would share certain fundamental truths.

Answer 9

I don't believe in organized religion at all. I mean, God doesn't need all those fancy buildings and rituals and stuff. I'm sure that He/She would rather us just be nice to each other and stop being so damn superficial.

Answer 10

I think that If you see plurality it is probalby because someone is not truly praticing their faith and they have a pretty lawn decoration faith.