I just saw on the yahoo home page that muslims are not allowed to buy a home that carries an interest payment by the law of their religion. It got me thinking-does anyone else consider themselves faithful and religious without obeying all the laws of their religion? like for example--can you be a good catholic and eat fish on friday during lent? a seik who cuts his hair and trims his beard and doesn't cover his head? a baptist who swears, drinks, and wears makeup? these ARE totally random, humanity-decreed rules. if they were truly rules handed down by God, everyone on earth would follow the same rules instead of every religion having their own set of unique rules and mores to follow. I consider myself religious and believe in God, but honestly-does anyone else feel most rules the religions asks us to follow are kind of silly or just don't make sense?
2007-01-06 12:32:40 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yes. That's a great observation. Religion is _full_ of extraneous, insignificant crap that has nothing to do with being a good, compassionate, helpful, and thoughtful person.
It's the reason I am no longer Catholic, but humanist. People matter to me more than rules.
2007-01-06 12:37:12 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I studied religion, even though I am not particularly religious. I don't have answers for many of the questions posed, but as far as Catholicism is concerned if you do not agree with ANY of the precepts of the religion (man amde or otherwise), the catholic church teaches that you are not a good Catholic and should be excommunicated from the church.
2007-01-06 20:40:10 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
All people are just WHO they are. Tradition, and common usages are all varied and become part of WHO people are. Every where you go, people are a little different, of course EACH PLACE is different. There is really no way each difference can be reconciled to the others because each arose from different conditions. What makes them silly is just the point of view of a particular person. I consider myself open minded about things, and, some of them don't make very much sense to ME.
So i guess i'd agree some are silly.
I don't think you'd be very successful if you opened the SILLY CHAPEL on Third Street (by the river).
2007-01-06 20:45:58 · answer #3 · answered by great gig in the sky 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
There are reasons behind all these rules; why do you question God's wisdom and laws when He created man from nothing, whe He tilted the Earth exactly on its axis so that it was positioned perfectly from the sun, He how made day and night, He who provided crops for us, He who has ordained all the other laws alongside these "silly" ones. Why then do we question whether or not God knows best. Just like when we are children and our parents establish house rules that we just don't understand; we question them because we have limited intelligence, but as we grow older and attain wisdom we see the importance behind these "silly rules" Peace and blessings.
2007-01-06 20:38:20 · answer #4 · answered by justmyinput 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Yes. This just shows that people made up their own religions to form discipline within the community. No god.
2007-01-06 21:38:45 · answer #5 · answered by Hardrock 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Kudos Allegra! Just what I think.
2007-01-06 20:39:09 · answer #6 · answered by Gothic Shadow 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋