Also what is your faith?
Thank you for all polite and thoughtful answers. I really am interested.
Peace Be With You,
Debra
2006-10-14 01:03:07 · 19 answers · asked by Debra M. Wishing Peace To All 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Thanks ALL serious answers are welcome!
2006-10-14 01:07:26 · update #1
I would say the hardest is the pilgramage to Mecca. Finding mental readiness, Finding time, Finding money. The easiest is prayer (though we pray five times a day) it gets easier with time, and when you connect with God at a deeper level you feel like a MILLION BUCKS LOL Just an expression, but I found peace in Islam! Elhamdullillah!
2006-10-14 01:06:24 · answer #1 · answered by . 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The hardest part of adhering to faith to me, is to apply its fundamentals to the reality of today. Although my beliefs are strong and spiritual, there are some directions that I do not feel are in the best interest of my family or society as a whole.
I pray everyday for help in making me the best person I can be. With that I do my best to follow my heart and my thoughts to engage in a lifestyle of love, strength and understanding. There would be no doubt in my mind that if my religion directed me in a path of what I believe would be destructive or undermining to the situation at hand or hurtful to my family or lifestyle - I would not adhere to my religion. I would have to rely on my inner faith alone.
2006-10-14 08:37:54 · answer #2 · answered by Paige2 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
As a Buddhist, the hardest thing has been to conquer the ego. I had a healthy ego to begin with and it has and will put up a good fight. Also anger has been a hard one to get under control but I have at last had a little success in this area. Gives me hope that ultimately all my 'flaws' can be conquered.
A Buddhist must be of 'Buddha-mind' and that is without all the selfish traits humans have.
2006-10-14 08:18:05 · answer #3 · answered by a_delphic_oracle 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The hardest part (but certainly not the only part) of my now gone faith, was adhering to the doctrine that the Judeo Christian God is all-loving. That was a huge struggle for me until the day I closed my Bible for the last time. I could no longer have faith in a god that would eternally torment man for eternity, for finite crimes on earth, especially those whose only crime was disbelief or believing in the wrong god.
2006-10-14 08:12:19 · answer #4 · answered by FreeThinker 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The irrationality of people of faith is really hard to overcome, faith is not something that anyone should be pleased with themselves about it is the wholehearted embracing of unreason and that makes for very dangerous people.
I think rational reasoning people are the only hope for the world, thankfully there are still plenty about and we are waking uo from the attitude that religion does no harm let's ignore it...we have to admit it is a dangerous threat to the world and take positive action to educate people out of it.
2006-10-14 08:53:25 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Debra, you are a person I admire, to begin with. You are respectful and modest. Hope you settled on an idea to honour your late nephew may Allah have mercy on him.
I am a Muslim. I will be totally honest with you though I am using my name, not a nickname. The most difficult thing for me is anything that has to do with sexual desires and that is because I have been abused as a kid for years and am in my thirties now and still single.
So, 'ghad al-bassar' - let me try to explain this. We are ordered - men and women - not to gaze at each other or look at certain parts of each other's bodies. I honestly do struggle with this and sometimes fail. Also similarly, masturbation, though it is not totally haram, it is not recommended. When I think of doing it, I remind myself that Allah is watching me; do I want Allah to see me doing this? Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. But I will keep struggling enshaa Allah.
Peace be upon us all.
2006-10-14 08:14:19 · answer #6 · answered by daliaadel 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
as a Christian, the most hardest part to adhere to would have to be not being a respector of persons.
good question, Debra!
2006-10-14 08:08:54 · answer #7 · answered by candi k 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The hardest thing for me to try and understand is how people can fall for all that nonsense called religion. Legal brain washing.
I bet you figured out what my faith is.
Sorry you were wrong. I do have faith in myself.
I know you won't understand that.
2006-10-14 08:08:06 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Debra the hardest part for me was to rid myself of the literal truth that we attach to our religious systems. i speak as a christian who had my life transformed by jesus
2006-10-14 08:17:56 · answer #9 · answered by s21181 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
As a Pagan I must accept full responsibility for my actions and the foreseeable consequences thereof, there are times I really wish I had someone else to blame for my mistakes.
2006-10-14 08:21:38 · answer #10 · answered by rich k 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋