Religious Views?

Question

Do you think it is fair to attack someones religious belief if it differs from your own? Is it out of frustration Or because people just don't understand the religion?

Answer 1

I do not think it is right to "attack" any one nor should we try to force our beliefs. However we can state our beliefs and the basis for them and if someone is not hearing that then we should move on.

Answer 2

Okay, there are two parts to this question.

Part 1: No, I don't think it's fair to attack someone's religious beliefs if it differs from your own. Religion isn't proven. It's subjective, and based on individuals accounts of different events. I don't know if you've ever done this or not, but in high school a teacher I had explained story-telling as such (she did an experiment to prove her point): have a class of 20 students sitting down. Someone runs in and just starts tearing stuff up. Have each person write down what the person was wearing and exactly what the person did, oh, and make them write down the time and everything they can remember from the event. We did that as a class, and every answer was different. All 20 were different. It was taped and played back for us to watch, and not one of us had the details right. So when you believe in a religion, consider that when you think about how the holy books originated. That indicates to me that it's impossible for us to know which is right and which isn't, so attacking someone for having a different belief seems rather... foolish.

Part 2: It depends. There are numerous possible explanations, and the reasons probably differ from person to person. Maybe Muslim one interprets the Koran to say that all non-Muslims need to die. Maybe Muslim two interprets the Koran to say that all people are Muslims since all people are God's children. Maybe Christian one says that everybody should be a Christian, that all the schools should teach the Bible and that no matter what you're beliefs are, you should shut up and deal with Christianity being taught to you. Christian two may say that everybody has a right to their own beliefs, and religion shouldn't be taught in school. Jew one may love everybody, Jew two may be afraid of everybody. It's all a matter of interpretation, opinion, and beliefs (keep in mind the word "beliefs", because beliefs are personal, and are not proven, otherwise the word would be truth or fact instead of belief).

Answer 3

Attacking each other's religion has been happening since time immemorial ! In the present day, weaponisation is sophisticated and therefore manifested big way. Just like some neighbours quarrel with words, and if given sticks, or bombs , the quarrel is with those, and the consequences proportional.
The purpose of religion , when understood properly, such persons would never engage in attacking the religion of others, or even attacking at all ! So, the religious people have to first religiously apply themselves to understand religion deeply enough before propagating it.

Answer 4

It is fear and ignorance that leads most to attack anothers religious beliefs. Relying on fiction and old, out-of-date data really puts a cruzx in the whole pregrsss supposedly towards tolerance.

Is it fair that some people try to force their beliefs on another? NO IT IS NOT

If people would get some education before opening their traps, the world would be a calmer place.

Answer 5

No...it is not fair to attack others religious beliefs...as long as they don't attack urs..b'coz sometimes people have all those stereotypes in mind that they equate everything with whats in front of them...also sometimes people carry this ethno-centric attitude (belief in the superiority of ur own country, culture and beliefs) that they tend to look down on others..esp. those that are different...so it all boils down to ignorance (which btw, some percieve as bliss) and the head-in-the-sand attitude that refuses to acknowldge the changes around them or heading their way.

Answer 6

Hello “Arizonabrat”

The opposite is true: I wish to know and trying to understand every other religion that differs from mine, I think it is good and necessary for my own evolution. But, there are situations when I can not stop my reaction against the action of some religion:

1)When religious fundamentalists are trying to turn a country in a Theocracy. We need a moral code, each religion has its moral code, but each religion grew and develops from private experiences and separated geographic location, so, the moral code of one religion never will be better than a moral code built in a democratic election. If my church tries to turn on a theocracy, I will attack my church!

2)When religious faith are used as social force or restraints that are opposite to individual rights. Examples: the right to choose the constitution of a family or not, to be pregnant or to do the abortion, to use the clothes of social fashion or does not use other clothes than the underpants…

3)When religious faith deviate people from knowledge about Nature, because these people avoid any other book than their sacred book. These people make social choices that drive Humanity to be weak facing the forces from Nature that are against life. Example: the religious fight against Theory of Evolution.

Your question leads us to other question: What is religion?

My theory about is:

Human mind is a non-material natural system as storage and operation of information in its abstract state. It is the layer over and surrounding the natural instincts emerged from the physical brain. So, mind is that set of information that exceeds the sum of information of every part of the human body. Mind is something inherent to each natural system and is coming under evolution from atoms to astronomic system to living beings. Since that the mind reaches time and space besides the immediate limits reached by the physical body and can not support being limited by this frontier, but the mind is imprisoned by the physical body, it needs to fly into the reign of the unknown for to keep surviving and alive. These incursions into the unknown produce what we call “fantasies” and sometimes our fantasies can be reality. If a person is pressed by some social restraint in a way that he/she can not exercise his/her minded fantasies, probable the mind state will be unsupportable and he/her will search for drugs or other tools that produces these fantasies. As I said, our mind operates with information’s in its abstract states and if these operations are producing the idea of God, whatever it can be, our rationality operating information’s at its material state is not able for judgments about. Leave it person with its own fantasies, beliefs, if not, his/her mind will search for less healthier valves to escape, like drugs or being a serial killer. And do not believe in everything I said here, because I have a poor and limited brain which has its own fantasies.

Answer 7

I think it is (generally speaking here) out of ignorance and intolerance. It all boils down to "My God can kick your God's ***."
It's childish and foolish. Thanks for posting a good question.

Answer 8

I dont think it's okay. People do this because they are ignorant.

Answer 9

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