Do you think that your religion is addressing the issues of our planet and our atmosphere, to assure that there is a safe and healthy future for them on earth?
It seems that some religions focus more on the after-life and less on the future life of our youth.
2007-01-09 18:24:23 · 12 answers · asked by ? 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Truth and Righteousness.....my hair is grey and I suppose that's what you meant??
I'm too young to be this damn old!! :)
2007-01-09 18:46:01 · update #1
funny, wicca is all about the future of the earth.........
2007-01-09 18:29:39 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
I believe religion is a way that you can choose to become closer to God in any era.
But I also believe that we have to be able to adapt and update the teaching to our daily activities and life development.
If we translate the holy books the way they were translated in 7th century or older, we will never be ready for the future.
Some religions focus on after-life, that's a product from the past where people were still barbaric and had to be dealt in the hardest way.
Remember when you were still small, your parent would lock you in your room after you picked your little sister ?
When you are bigger, the punishment will no longer applicable for you. They will talk to you and treat you as an adult with responsibility or else you will never hear them.
Religions like us, have to evolve for survival.
2007-01-10 03:54:56 · answer #2 · answered by Lani Bayu 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
We Christians focus on the present time, but we do send our kids to school and such because we know there is a future, just that we don't know when it will end. Our after life is very important to us. We do not want an eternity in hell. Forever is much too long to spend in a horrid, dark place like that and with satan of all creatures. We want to spend everlasting life in Heaven with our Lord God and Savior, Jesus Christ.
2007-01-10 02:42:32 · answer #3 · answered by Dakota Lynn Takes Gun 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My religion, Unitarian Universalism, is at the forefront of the religious environmental movement and has been for quite some time. Since the emphasis is on being a good person while we are still alive and not on what may or may not happen after death, we are charged with caring for the environment so that our children and grandchildren can enjoy it as well.
2007-01-10 02:29:37 · answer #4 · answered by jenn_smithson 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
My religion teaches that everything is according to God's plan. What may seem like chaos to humans, is actually the natural order of what is intended. Future generations will be provided for according to God's system and plan for all of mankind. It's "in the cards."
2007-01-10 02:33:37 · answer #5 · answered by MyPreshus 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Bible scripture gives strict limitations on how we were to use the land. Failure to comply met with devastating famine, drought and locusts. God's punishment? or the direct result of man's abuse of the land? Over and over again, throughout the Bible it implies both: you misuse the land that God created and you, your children and your children's children will suffer. (so sayeth the Lord)
However, stressing the afterlife rather than sane farming practices, etc. nets more in tithes for the church. But, that's the fault of the churches not of God or of our religion.
2007-01-10 02:46:20 · answer #6 · answered by angrygramma 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think many religions negate the value of this world. If you consider how "unholy" the connotations of words like profane, secular, material, or worldly are, I think you can see how religion has shaped us to think of the world beyond rather than our lives here and now.
How many times have we been told to be "pilgrims in this world", rather than to treat it with any substantive value? We look at this life as a gateway to another that is enduring, meanwhile we let the only world that we are certain about slip away.
All the best,
Laz
2007-01-10 02:33:15 · answer #7 · answered by The Man Comes Around 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes, by teaching people that there will be a new Earth after Armageddon, when people will spend 1000 years rebuilding it back into a Paradise. And they will live to see it completed.
2007-01-10 03:26:18 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
If they could trade the Earth to be with God in heaven, then many religions would. It is rather shameful and inhuman.
2007-01-10 02:55:16 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe in and follow Jesus.I hope he returns soon. We can not depend on mankind.
2007-01-10 02:47:47 · answer #10 · answered by gwhiz1052 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋