instead of fighting eachother, and insisting that our own teachings are the right ones, we basically center on the same morals. So instead of trying to prove out religion the correct one, why not try and unite all religions, and together create a peaceful world?
2006-08-17 06:38:41 · 20 answers · asked by Olive 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Why would you belong to a religion you didn't think was the truth? doesn't make sense
2006-08-17 06:51:09 · answer #1 · answered by Quantrill 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
To be honest, I wouldn't see any point in following a religion that didn't claim to be the right one. I do have a problem, however, with a religion that says all others are utterly and completely false. No way, there's lots of truth out there from lots of different sources, I follow my religion because I believe it to be the MOST true.
We couldn't all become one religion because that would mean compromising on some critical points of doctrine, and that just wouldn't be right. But I agree that we can be kind, and civil, and understanding of others, even when they don't share our beliefs.
2006-08-17 06:50:32 · answer #2 · answered by daisyk 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
My religion does not claim to be the true religion or the most correct. I state that my religious choice simply is the correct choice for me.
As long as there are people that think as you and I, there will always be hope that we may one day live in a peaceful world.
Blessings )O(
2006-08-17 06:48:09 · answer #3 · answered by Epona Willow 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your comment seems to imply that without religious differences, the world would be all peaceful and hunky-dorry, which defies history and common sense.
It defies them because few, if any, of the world's conflicts have had much (if anything) to do with religion.
Remember that one form of government (communism) legally did away with religion -- but the results were anything but peaceful. Not with the blood of 100 million murdered people on communism's hands.
OF COURSE I believe that my religion (Roman Catholicism) -- and only my religion -- contains the fullness of religious truth. Otherwise, why would I need to follow it?
But that's not to say that other religions don't contain amounts (whether large or small) of religious truth. They don't contain the FULLNESS of religious truth, of course, but they do contain some truth -- at least to the extent that they mirror Catholicism.
2006-08-17 06:49:32 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
i'm the way, the actuality and the existence and no person includes the daddy different than via me John 14:6 it is the reason i've got faith there is not any thank you to God different than via religion in Jesus. as quickly as you become a Christian you enable God to alter and help you reside a solid existence for him. You discover ways to stroll humble the place God sends you, and be grateful for Jesus making it plausible that a sinful man or woman may be forgiven via God. That concept in Jesus is the commencing up of a walk with God, no longer the top. As a Christian you're taught no to have faith in your self, yet to be counted God working thorough you. no rely how solid a man or woman you're, no rely how only or merciful you're, you're nevertheless no longer solid sufficient to be conscious of God. Having a courting with God demands a appropriate sacrifice in Jesus. Jesus is the way a imperfect man or woman may be conscious of God, and characteristic a courting with God. as quickly as you different than Jesus, the artwork starts on your existence. i do no longer see that verse in Micah saying there are various the thank you to God, and understanding Jesus is the 1st and maximum mandatory step in understanding God.
2016-12-14 07:15:55 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, what you're talking about is secularism. That's a good idea for the governments of the world. But it shouldn't affect religion - many people have sacrificed much so that people could be free to worship God the way they want to. Why would you want to undo that?
2006-08-17 06:45:50 · answer #6 · answered by Open Heart Searchery 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Not all religions do. Hinduism claims that any way you worship god you worship the same god. The problem is that the claim of those who have the experiences of mystics are all the same, just in different words. It's the priests who only have the words and no experience that fight.
2006-08-17 06:51:57 · answer #7 · answered by neil s 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Religions are not based on morals, but on God. So, despite their similarities, they are more different than alike.
Basically, if God exists, then he sets the rules. There can be only one truth because it was established by God.
2006-08-17 06:47:32 · answer #8 · answered by Privratnik 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Pagans don't believe that their way is the one and only way. They live and let live so to speak. As for creating a peaceful world.......we're working on that...... ;)
2006-08-17 06:46:00 · answer #9 · answered by PaganPoetess 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Olive, religions are not political factions or social groups. If they didn't claim to have a handle on Truth, why would you bother?
2006-08-17 07:12:34 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋