If you believe in a specific religion do you degrade other religions b/c they're not your own?or do you accept

Question

Honestly, everyone has a different heart and soul that has to be satisfied in a different way. If you are the religious type I hope that if you DO choose to share your religion with others you do so in a constructive manner, not condescending. All souls are satisfied differently. How do you satisfy yours?

Answer 1

Not to offend anyone in a religion. But religion only holds people back spiritually. Being a spiritual person outside of an organized religion is how people can improve themselves spiritually in many ways. There is some truth in all religions, but not one of them has the whole truth. God wants us to be able to find these truths within ourselves. Religion was meant to guide and direct us. Yet, humans have used it to confine and ruin people, in many ways from spiritual to emotional to physical. I don't think God wanted us to do this to each other. This is the main thing that people need to know, is god's love. Religion teaches some of this, but it can hold back the many varieties of ways that it can be done. I hope all can learn to understand that life can be wonderful and that being spiritual instead of religious can lead you on the right path. this is not anyone telling you how much to believe or think. you set your own path and limitations, or set them free.
so no, I do not degrade others, I just hope that they can find thier own path.

good luck on your spiritual path.

blessed be.

Answer 2

I try to be accepting and open to other people's religious beliefs.
Sometimes I am sure I come over a as a little condescending although I don't mean to. I am human and I make human mistakes.
What you are brought up to believe makes perfect sense to you, but to an outsider it doesn't.
For example, I asked a Muslim friend what she made of the concept of Muslim men getting all the 'houris' to look after them in heaven. I felt it was sexist and that one thing alone would stop me from converting, but she just laughed and said " Don't women have enough to do on earth? We deserve some rest!'
As long as a person tries to be the best that their religion asks of them ,who am I to judge that religion?
I try to be the best person I can be and that is how I satisfy my soul. And you know what, every time I am low, something good happens! So I must be doing something right!!!

Answer 3

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Answer 4

I am Baptist. I know that there are many different religions out there that believe many different things. There are many different religions in the Christianity sector that believe different things. To each his own. I do not persecute someone for not believing what I believe and I expect the same respect. I know that in the end times I will be in heaven with my savior and I hope to see everyone else there too.

Answer 5

All religions (and god/s) were created by Man for Man over the last couple hundred of years by different ethnic groups.
The moral aspect of all world religions is definitely a plus for social order. But the negative aspect of many beliefs are the man-created "laws" (passed off as gods' laws) that inhibit the progress of mankind. In fact history has shown that religious wars were (and are still being) fought because of differences in cultural/religious practices. Even if there is a Supernatural Being (call it SB) up there, I would want to reason that SB would treat all mere mortal-earthings, regardless of their race, creed, colour, status and even their self-created beliefs, EQUALLY!
Again my reasoning tells me that if SB is all-powerful, all-knowing and all-forgiving he will never allow sectarian, racial, religious, military VIOLENCE to go on for past hundreds of years!
How can an omnipotent SB allow Religion X, who condemns billions of others who do not believe in their belief to "hell", to exist? This is indeed ludicrous!
Of course the expected answers (to the mayhem on planet Earth) from the pro-Religion X people will be : "It is all written in the holy books"; "Our god has his reasons"; Bal-bla-bla.
In conclusion, my philosophy is "Morality is definitely necessary for world order, but morality need not be based on the reward of "heaven" and the threat of "hell".

Answer 6

I love all religions except christianity. I have no respect for a group that from it's creation has been used to oppress, murder, and rape. Plus, any religion that can splinter into 1600 subgroups is a joke.

Answer 7

I don't degrade people for any reason because I don't like being degraded myself. It's the Golden Rule: 'Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.'

Now, should someone degrade or belittle me or a friend for any reason, they need to be prepared for my wrath -- they have opened the door and I am very good at closing it.

Answer 8

if we all focus on the good of each religious denomination instead of the bad we would all get along. the problem is everyone has a problem with so many differences that's all we seem to care about.

Answer 9

The question touches on the idea of religious pluralism. If by religious pluralism you mean that everyone has a right to worship God the way he wants to Then I agree with religious pluralism. I believe in freedom of religion, plurality of ideas and freedom of thought. If you mean by religious pluralism that all ideas have as much truth value as all other ideas Then I disagree with religious pluralism. To say that all ideas have as much truth value as all other ideas is insane. If we're standing next to a pink corvette and I say that this is an automobile and my freind says it's a pink elephant, pluralism goes down the drain at that point because his view obviously does not have as much truth value as mine. The 3rd law of logic is the 'Law of Noncontradiction'. It says that 2 things that diametrically contradict each other cannot be both true. All religions diametrically contradict all other religions and they all say they are from God. The Law of Noncontradiction only allows you 2 possibilities in that case: 1) One religion is true and all the rest are false 2) They're all false[that's got to be considered a logical possibility]. They can't all be true because they all contradict each other. I don't believe they're all false either, for this reason.......If you look at archeology about half of the artifacts they find have to do with religion(they find burials grounds that are religious in nature, they find temple areas, all cultures and all the different empires had some kind of a religion....). Also, man cannot do away with religion. Communism tried to eliminate christianity and all religion. Lenin said that religion was the opiate of the people. He outlawed it and persecuted anyone who practiced religion. Yet Communism could not conquer religion. It eventually conquered communism. Man just seems to have an innate desire to know about God. He seems to have been created that way. For that reason I don't believe all the religions are wrong because if that were true than God would have created man with an innate desire to know about him(not necessarily to know him personally) but never left any revelation about himself. Logically, that leaves only one possibility and that's that there is one true and all the rest are false. Which one is true? First of all you would look for one of the big religions. It couldn't be one of the smaller sects that only a few thousand people know about because that would be to say that God only revealed himself to a few thousand people worldwide. I would look at all the big religions and pick one that seems to have the signature of God. My pick is Christianity. The signature of God is prophecy. In the Old Testament(39 books that were all written anywheres from 400 to 2000 years before Christ was born there are 333 prophecies of his first coming and 456 specific details about his 33 year life on earth. There are over 500 prophecies about his 2nd coming which is still to come. What does that mean? The gospels, namely Mathew, Mark, Luke, and John are the story of the life of Christ. Suppose Mathew, Mark, Luke and John had just said 'I don't have time to write a book about the life of Christ, I'm too busy preaching the Gospel' and they never wrote those books. We still could have re-created the life of Christ from the Old Testament(all written between 400 and 2000 years before he was born). In fact, for the first 20 years after the death of Christ that is how the gospel was preached...from the old testament. The new testament hadn't been written yet. The bible also had amazing insights into scientific principals thousands of years before those principals were discovered. Seventeen times in the old testament the bible says that God is 'stretching the heavens'. For thousands of years bible scholars were puzzled about what that phrase could possible mean. Then in 1929 Edwin Hubble discovered that the universe was expanding and for the first time we knew what that phrase meant. Those and many other similar things are what I would call the signature of God. No other Holy book has those things. Mortimer Adler was a famous philosopher. He was also the chief editor of the encyclopedia brittanica for 40 some years at the university of Chicago. He was also an athiest. At the end of his life he decided to do a study on religion. He studied religion for 10 years to see if any of them could possibly be true. He immediately ruled out all of the eastern religions because he said they all violated the 3rd law of logic(the law of noncontradiction). That left only 3 religions:1)christianity 2)judaism3)Islam. Although he felt that judaism and christianity were related(as were all 3 in some ways) he picked christianity because he felt it's Holy Book had Gods signature on it and he became a christian before he died. God never put us on this earth with a desire to know him but with no revelation of him. You talk about everyone having a different heart and different souls being satisfied in a different way and not being condescending. With all due respect, I want to know what is true, not what makes me feel good.

Answer 10

I grew up Holiness (penacostal) but I have ventured out and looked into other churches.

I respect everyone and their beliefs ... I am no one to judge another soul. We have but one Judge and it is neither you nor I.