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what religion really does and how

2006-08-13 04:54:40 · 15 answers · asked by gasp 4 in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

should a religion do this?

2006-08-13 04:55:19 · update #1

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mmmm Love your neighbor as your self love is when you lay your life down for another of COURSE.

2006-08-13 05:00:34 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

I don't have a religion. But it doesn't matter to me personally what someone's faith, race or gender is. I'm sure you could look at any religion and find something to use against all of those things. I think it depends more on what the individual does with it.

2006-08-13 07:03:18 · answer #2 · answered by Kithy 6 · 0 0

Honestly...no, but I really wish it did. When I realized that it odes not, I decided that I would promote those things because no one religion or person has all of the answers. We should open our minds long enough to learn from one another.

2006-08-13 05:00:29 · answer #3 · answered by Amazon 3 · 0 0

Every religion teaches that it is the only true one, and all others are false. That's how religions get converts so that they can get more money. There is no religion that truly teaches love for everyone. Jesus did, but no Christian religion today actually teaches the words of Jesus, except where it makes them more money

2006-08-13 05:01:36 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

Yes. Of course this excludes Islam because it is not a valid religion and homosexuals because they are an abomination.

Woops, I thought I was Born Again. but I am not, so cancel the above.

2006-08-13 05:00:52 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Jesus said: “By this all will know that you are my disciples, if you have love among yourselves.” (John 13:35)

Jehovah's Witnesses, Their fellowship is unique. There is no tribalism or divisive nationalism among them. In fact, many Witnesses who found themselves in the midst of ethnic cleansing and racial genocide during the closing years of the 20th century protected one another even at the risk of their own lives. Although coming “out of all nations and tribes and peoples and tongues,” they enjoy a unity that is difficult to comprehend until you experience it.—Revelation 7:9.

Jehovah’s Witnesses allow nothing—neither race, nationality, nor ethnic background—to cause them to hate their neighbors. Nor will they kill anyone, for they have figuratively beaten their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning shears, as the Bible foretold true servants of God would.—Isaiah 2:4.

No wonder an editorial in California’s Sacramento Union noted: “Suffice it to say that if all the world lived by the creed of the Jehovah Witnesses there would be an end of bloodshed and hatred, and love would reign as king”!

Similarly, a writer in Hungary’s Ring magazine remarked: “I have come to the conclusion that if Jehovah’s Witnesses were the only ones living on the earth, wars would cease to exist, and the only duties of the policemen would be to control traffic and to issue passports.”

In the Italian church magazine Andare alle genti, a Roman Catholic nun also wrote admiringly of the Witnesses: “They refuse any form of violence and without rebelling put up with the many trials inflicted on them because of their beliefs . . . How different the world would be if we all woke up one morning firmly decided not to take up arms again, whatever the cost or the reason, just like Jehovah’s Witnesses!”

The Witnesses are noted for taking the initiative to help their neighbors. (Galatians 6:10) In her book Women in Soviet Prisons, a Latvian said she became very sick while working at the Potma penal camp in the mid-1960’s. “All through my sickness [the Witnesses] were diligent nurses. I could not have wished for better care, especially under camp conditions.” She added: “Jehovah’s Witnesses consider it their duty to help everyone, regardless of religion or nationality.”

Recently the public press in the Czech Republic took note of such conduct of the Witnesses in concentration camps. Commenting on the documentary “The Lost Home,” produced in Brno, the newspaper Severočeský deník observed: “It is noteworthy that even these reliable contemporaries [Czech and Slovak Jewish survivors] have with marked admiration testified in favor of prisoners from among Jehovah’s Witnesses. ‘They were very courageous people, who were always helping us in whatever way they could, although running the risk of execution,’ many commented. ‘They prayed for us, as though we belonged to their family; they encouraged us not to give up.’”

If you would like further information, please contact Jehovah's Witnesses at the local Kingdom Hall.

2006-08-13 07:24:09 · answer #6 · answered by Jeremy Callahan 4 · 0 0

There are no religions that love people, only money and power.

2006-08-13 05:00:26 · answer #7 · answered by Mark F 4 · 0 0

Absolutily.

2006-08-13 04:59:39 · answer #8 · answered by Jay 5 · 0 0

Yes, but being human, we have a hard time executing this philosophy all the time. But that doesn't mean we don't try.

2006-08-13 04:58:11 · answer #9 · answered by kcconklin 1 · 0 0

spiritualism encourages love for all and no judgement
everyone is equal and deserves to be treated as such
judge the action not the person :o)

2006-08-13 05:06:12 · answer #10 · answered by Peace 7 · 1 0

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