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Religions are tools that people use to reach spiritual goals. In the words of folksinger Ani DiFranco "Every tool is a weapon if you hold it right."

Those that use the tool as a weapon are usually people who don't want spiritual goals, they are just hungry for wealth or power or both. In their own ignorance to obtain that which isn't spiritual (wealth, power) they seek out others whom are ignorant of what the religion teaches, the practices of the religion, etc and then twists it to meet their own agenda. As people become enlightened to the wrong doing they leave, but as they leave there are always still others who are lost in the veil of maya (illusion) who through ignorance as well adopt the fraudulent teachers' defination of the religion rather than seeking out the divine Itself. It is only when the person has a personal dramatic experience of the Divine that they then seek more and more and more and as the fraud cannot deliver because they are not truly spiritual, the devotee's veil is slowly raised until they see the fraud as not living in spirit and so they turn away.

It is a cycle. The fraud will always seek those who do not fully understand, have not studied on their own, have not had a personal dramatic experience of the Divine, and who are ignorant and lost in illusion for whom the fraud can manipulate for some time. Just enough to continue to feed the fraud's ego and desires for power and wealth. Even the fraud knows when a devotee is on the path to leaving and will not necessarily stop them because they know there are others to fill their place. The devotee often goes two ways 1) becomes cynical and denies the experience they had and what they learned in the experience and therefore denies all religious paths as being untrue and all run by frauds or 2) they go on a personal search to go deeper and deeper into the universal truths of the innate nature of the inner Self and as they do they are more able to see teachers who are frauds from those who are truly and genuinely spiritual and seek not to harm, control, or gain anything but only to share the wisdom of their practices with others (thus they ask nothing in return). The devotee usually forms a bond with this teacher much different than the original fraudulent teacher because it is truly on the spiritual plane rather than on the mundane materialist plane.

2006-09-22 21:19:08 · answer #1 · answered by gabriel_zachary 5 · 0 0

leadership that is not held accountable see Mat. 18 and the epistles to TIM

if you find a church that practices these instructions no on there will be doing hateful things at least not for long

2006-09-22 18:48:16 · answer #2 · answered by icheeknows 5 · 0 0

Self-righteousness and hypocrisy are not religious traits. They're
human nature in general. Religion tries to help us get over it.

2006-09-22 18:39:58 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

All of us must learn and practice self-restraint and respect for others. Most of us can never get it right, despite our best efforts. Thankfully there is a God of justice who understands our weaknesses. He will judge each of us individually with appropriate punishments for all.

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2006-09-22 18:46:41 · answer #4 · answered by Hatikvah 7 · 0 0

Man adds to The GOd's thoughts!

2006-09-22 18:39:29 · answer #5 · answered by whynotaskdon 7 · 0 0

your imaginations don't have something to do with Jews and mirror purely your self. Jews of religion have never "rejected God" so there can of direction be no "worry" on that component. As for worry that the hot testomony theology would desire to be merely right -- you won't think of so in case you understood greater of the Jewish bible. it fairly is merely not achieveable that G-d could grant everlasting suffering to those that love Him and try to maintain on with His direction of ethics, mercy, justice and so on. it is not achieveable simply by fact the Bible tells us repeatedly lower back that such all human beings is forgiven and blessed or maybe "righteous" and so on. And it fairly is so no rely what their perspectives would or won't be approximately any messiah. however the Christian bible says all of those all human beings is supplied with undesirable and everlasting "punishment" -- until eventually of direction they settle for the Jesus theology. This "coaching" is impossible to reconcile with the thoroughly opposite jewish bible coaching. So there isn't any "worry" approximately it. @the questioner's remark to me: in view which you settle with me that G-d forgives someone his sins if he strives as I even have suggested -- no rely what that person believes or would not have faith with regard to the messiah -- you will desire to understand the lack of ability of "worry" between Jews. So i don't likely understand your further remark. You requested approximately how Jews experience and speculated that they experience "worry". I did examine the question and that i gave you an answer that applies to me individually and that i've got faith to very many Jews - No "worry." and that i gave you the justifications, which you look to accept as true with. It makes me question whether you fairly wished to understand approximately how Jews experience, which makes one ask your self why you requested the question.

2016-12-15 12:49:06 · answer #6 · answered by ? 3 · 0 0

When people don't understand what they are reading it can lead to disasters in any field, be it science, cooking, or religion.

2006-09-22 18:44:41 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

The TRUE religion doesn't.

2006-09-22 18:43:43 · answer #8 · answered by lenny 7 · 0 0

Please show me in the gospels where Jesus preached hatred or hated?

It is not the religion that hates, it is mankind.

2006-09-22 18:39:59 · answer #9 · answered by J. 7 · 1 0

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