What is so wrong with it, hmn? What is so wrong with another believing in something that you do not?
In the end, what matters is that we're all human, we're all living, and we all follow the same basic concepts! Don't kill! Don't steal! Don't lie! Don't cheat! There will be payback for your actions in one way or another! Christian, Muslin, Jew, Pagan, Atheist, Agnostic, Buddhist, Hindu, Baha'i, Taoist, Jain, Sikh! We all believe in those concepts, not through the power of the Gods, but through the power of life and common sense!
Is it really all that difficult to get past the names!?
We all cry, smile, bleed, live, die!
How BARBARIC has humanity become that we cannot settle our differences still? That we're carrying on wars far more ancient than our parent's parent's parent's!? Wars started over a higher power that may or may not exist, that we wouldn't know did or did not exist unless we were dead ourselves!!?
Does it really matter what "religious organization" we iden-
2006-10-19 13:49:31 · 15 answers · asked by Lady Myrkr 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
-tify ourselves with? I though what mattered was what actions and emotions we identified our HEART with.
We all want to be happy. We all want to be better than we were before, if not the best we can be.
... so why do we have to act so distastefully towards one another for something so minor as a label?
2006-10-19 13:50:57 · update #1
I am SO with you. May your tribe increase.
"We all cry, smile, bleed, live, die!"
Amen, amen, amen.
2006-10-19 13:50:58 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I'll agree with you there. Many religions do indeed agree on some of the same things. The biggest obstacle is the Exclusivity Doctrine: The notion that "X" is THE WAY, and the ONLY way to heaven/enlightenment/salvation/fulfilment/whatever...the logical conclusion of which meaning that everyone else in the world is misled at best, evil at worst. The threat of an unpleasant afterlife adds fuel to the fires of desperation.
Then you have the arguments over whose code of behavior/dress/morality is right. This gets really ugly when there are great differences of opinion, and has the Exclusivity Doctrine piled on top of it.
Worst of all is the mentality that if something worked well for one person it would work well for everyone. So, logically, everyone should be inducted into whatever "worked" for the one--for their own good, of course.
As things are, there won't be any kind of peace until the theologies of the world loosen up their Exculsivity attitudes and try accepting that other people are different. And that it's okay. Sadly, (the Abrahamic faiths especially) each will insist that theirs is the only possible way with their dying breaths. So there will be disagreements. And war.
Until they grow the hell up.
2006-10-20 13:44:58 · answer #2 · answered by Scott M 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
By the way, beautiful post. I don't believe in any religious figures and proud of it. I get frustrated with all these religious conflicts thinking that the whole point of all these religions are peace and equality. But the way they show it to the world it is the opposite. Wars start, people die. All because the way some percieve something is a bit different from someone elses. What has our world become?
2006-10-19 20:54:15 · answer #3 · answered by Conspirator 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
More than anything, Gods –all Gods – are jealous masters. The punishment for worshipping another is usually is almost always along the lines of rape-torture-kill – which seems to be what most Gods do best, It’s hard to look at the real physical results of any God’s supposed work and conclude that they’ve done much good. Death and destruction seems to be more their style.
2006-10-19 20:57:18 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Yes this is true . but there are some religions still playing the numbers game for king of the religious dog pile.wither in the same sect or between the different philosophies.
2006-10-19 21:01:04 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
If you think about it we all believe in the same thing. GOD. It doesn't matter what the name is. If only our puny human minds could grasp this then the world would be a happy place.
2006-10-19 20:55:44 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Many people need to see past the differences in religions and see the commonalities. Unfortunately, that'll never happen.
2006-10-19 20:53:19 · answer #7 · answered by Patience 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Forget about teaching others and thinking that the problem is outside of you. Forget about thinking that people don't get it and you're trying to teach peace. Just work on yourself. Pretend that everyone else out here is fully enlightened and that you need them to teach you about how to get to your own enlightenment.
2006-10-19 20:52:09 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
Hello Megami of Nekro.. :)
For a young woman, you have wisdom beyond your years.. :)
I am in total agreement with you..
You are in my heart and my prayers.. :)
In Jesus Most Precious Name..
With Love..In Christ.. :)
2006-10-20 13:38:08 · answer #9 · answered by EyeLovesJesus 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
"The utterance of God is a lamp, whose light is these words: Ye are the fruits of one tree, and the leaves of one branch. Deal ye one with another with the utmost love and harmony, with friendliness and fellowship. He Who is the Daystar of Truth beareth Me witness! So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth. The One true God, He Who knoweth all things, Himself testifieth to the truth of these words."
- Baha'u'llah, Epistle to the Son of the Wolf, p. 14
2006-10-20 01:24:19 · answer #10 · answered by LivingDownSouth 4 · 0⤊ 4⤋