Please forgive me if my answer is too long, but I am sure you will aprreciate it after reading all of it.
The Islamic faith is based on the Quran, not the words of the ignorant haters of Islam, who invent many lies about Islam, without ever reading the Quran.
"Those who believe (in the Qur'an), and those who follow the Jewish (scriptures), and the Christians and the Sabians,- any who believe in God and the Last Day, and work righteousness, shall have their reward with their Lord; on them shall be no fear, nor shall they grieve."
Quran 2:62
According to this verse in the Quran, Zoroastrians will also have a chance to go to paradise, if they work righteousness, because Zoroastrians also believe in God and the Last Day.
The Islamic faith states you CAN go to paradise if you don't accept it, as long as you work righteousness and believe in God and the Last Day.
I know that my religion, Islam, is the right religion, the odds are not against me in joining the right one, because the concept of one God is much more sensible than many Gods with human attributes. All monotheist religions/sects are influenced by the religion of Abraham. Some Hindus claim that Hinduism is the oldest monotheist religion, it is the oldest reigion, but it is not monotheist, because it believes in gods and goddesses having sexual intercourse with each other.
The belief in God does not contradict the theory of evolution, because the attributes of God are not human, as they are in polytheist religions. I think the reason why God did not want humans to know that we we evolved from apes, and instead gave us the story of being created out of mud/clay, was to remind us of our humble origins, however it is more humble to realize our true origins, this way we can have a greater appreciation of life, I think God intended for us to not comprehend that we evolved from apes until we had achieved all the history that we have achieved, and then he gave Charles Darwin the vision of evolution, at a critical time in human history, the age of industrialism/colonialism. I think Adam was the first human, in that he was a member of the species that is most closest to the humans of today, but he escaped from them and gained the ability of free will and individuality (self-esteem). And God took him up into heaven after seeing this masterpiece of evolution, and sent him back down to Earth with Eve (after the sin of Eve), to be fruitful, and multiply and replenish the Earth. The greatest proof of Satan is the many cases of poltergeist, and the many cases of exorcism ridding psychosis in individuals within a few minutes. The greatest proof of God is the vastness of the universe and the fact that we evolved from amoeba, which was obviously a creation of God. Throughout human history, righteous believers of God have prevailed over idolators and the godless. Humans are the only living things on Earth with unlimited capacities of learning, this is the greatest sign that we are "godly" or the evolutionary masterpiece of God. Also I think God intended for us to realize that we evolved from apes at such a late stage, so we would not be able to return to being ape-like by trying to imitate them, and also so we can learn a lot from their foolish behavior and relate it to the ape-like mentality of tribalist societies in the world, so we would not return to tribalism/racism, by seeing that it is the conscious/unconscious imitation of ape mentalities that lead tibalist/racist societies to genocide, poverty, and starvation, to be conquered by more socially and spiritually evolved human societies. Godless and polytheist societies in the world have been conquered by monotheist societies in modern times. The Abrahamic religion states that godless societies will not thrive, this is so true, because godless societies unconsciously create poverty for themselves, like China, the Soviet Union, etc. India, a country predominated by polytheists, was conquered by the more socially and spiritually evolved British Christians, whom taught a lot of their concepts to India, but India did not seriously abolish the polytheist caste-system and collectively embrace the concept of monotheism, that is why there is still so much misery in that country.
The Soviet Union out of its godlessness did not stick to its Communist principles of international peace, and spent a great part of its National wealth on it's military rather than on it's people, leading to it's collapse, for if they truly believed in God, they would not have such profound fears of being conquered, and instead could have focused on conquering their enemies through focusing the National wealth on the goals of Communism, to win support among its own people and to arouse sympathy among workers of the world, if the Soviet Union would have truly built a prosperous society, especially with freedom of religion.
I have realized that wherever in the world, religion is not the opium of the masses, narcotics are, and religion is a much better opium, because narcotics leads to a culture of crime. America and Britain have such a bad problem with narcotics and crime, because their societies are no longer based on religion, even though most of the people in those countries are followers of religion.
And hatred is rejected by the scriptures of the Abrahamic religion. Hatred is not a human emotion, because it has been proven time and time again that those who maintain hatred are blind to reality, and have trouble learning, and history has always punished hateful societies. And apes can not learn much, because they have a culture of hatred for members of other tribes, and constantly fight border wars and brutally beat and eat members of other tribes. Any religion that mentions the supremacy of a tribe/race of humans is not a progressive religion, and Hinduism is such a religion. Also because it preaches the sacredness of India above all other lands, it is such a typical religion of failed peoples, it has survived through the grace of Muslim and Christian conquerors, otherwise it is rapidly loosing members, though many Hindus don't show the same grace to the Muslim and Christian minorities of India.
The reason why I target the flaws of Hinduism, is because many Hindus claim that Hinduism is better than the monotheist religions, and that Hinduism is gaining many converts outside of India. The reason for the numerical strength of Hinduism, is because of the masses of "out-caste" or unscheduled caste dark-skinned peoples of Southern India, who are born Hindu out of accident, and are told that they must remain in debt to Brahmans their whole lives, and their only escape from poverty is to be obedient to the Brahman and they will be born in prosperity in the next life. Some Hindus claim that democracy is a part of their religion, when in fact the rule of Rajas and Brahmans is called for by Hinduism.
2006-09-11 11:18:25
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