Religious question regarding the car and the driver?

Question

Okay, so there's this car, the latest Mercedez Benz car. Very expensive, but very slick and full of all the protection system, state of the art breaks, everything that could possibly keep you safe from accidents.

Unfortunately, the driver is a moron who doesn't know how to drive.

So he bangs the Mercedez againts the wall at a very high speed, he and his car is crushed.

So who is to be blamed here? The driver or the car?


Now let me fit this situation to the world right now.

The car is the religion/belief,
The driver is its follower.

Do you judge a car by the car itself, or the driver? A lot of people regardless of their religion or belief hates, mocks and insults the other religion just because some follower is either a jackass or a moron, and thus rejecting it rather than understanding what is truly right and what is wrong?

For example, why claim that all Muslims are terrorists while only a small faction are into terrorism? Why claim all Muslims are violent?----

Why claim that Islam teaches evil? Why claim something you don't know? Most importantly why do you even listen to such people? It's like a Christian explaining Pagan, it's already biased.

Talking about bias, those people who studied the holy book of other religion, do they actually study it and try to comprehend or do they just read it to prove the religion wrong?

As a human being, I know that, that is wrong. A religion is something that of moral codes, ethics and values for us to live in peace and harmony in this world, why the heck do we even do all this fighting to prove who is right and who is wrong?

Ultimately only God is right, we as humans cannot say we are.

So what we can do is try our best to follow, not spend our time to prove who is right and who is wrong, we'll find out one day when we die who is truly right.

Why say Christianity is bad while only a handful are fanatics?
Why say Buddhism is bad if that's what your religion tells you?
Why say Atheism is bad because they don't believe in God?
Why say Islam is bad because they don't believe Jesus Christ as God's son?


In all religions in this world, it teaches peace. It's always wrong to kill, it's always wrong to rape, it's always wrong to do bad stuff. So why do people still claims that people from the other religion is bad simply because they have a different opinion regarding God? Does that also mean their religion teaches evil?

1st, I love metaphors.

2nd, Sometimes it can divide the smart answers from the...not so smart ones. This way I can avoid blind religious fanatics! :D

3rd, I didn't mean it EXACTLY like this, it's just to give my point clearly.

Finally, a religion is a religion, it's not a car/love/monkey/rhinocerous/hyena, I'm not even comparing, I'm just using an example.

The point is here.........


Just because the driver is a jackass, does it mean the car is bad? The car is the religion/belief be it Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, etc. You want to choose/accept the car as the teaching it teaches you, not by the way of the driver.

I wish I could say that some you guys aren't smart enough to catch the point here but I do not wish to be mean and hurtful :K

Answer 1

despite religious beliefs...I see people equal across the board...and I go out of my way to be courteous to Muslims...because I feel that they are at such a disadvantage in today's society...

I chop it down to out right brain washing...and pure ignorance...I think that people have lost the grip of reality in this world....and want to categorize everyone so that they have an upper hand on how they fit into the lie that is perceived as reality...!!!!!

Answer 2

I like your analogy about the car and driver, it made sense to me. Compared to religion, though, it doesn't quite fit. A Christian is judged on how they act, since Christianity, if it is what it claims to be, should mean that its followers would emulate Jesus. We should be Christ like. Therefore, it's not quite the same as driving around a car. A piece of metal cannot transform the person behind the wheel. The word of God, which is living and active, and the holy spirit, which indwells each born again believer in Jesus Christ......should. But I did understand your point, and appreciate it.

Answer 3

You have a legitamite point. I am not sure if you needed to use the car/driver metaphor in order to get that point across.

I think everyone realizes that everyone approaches/responds a set belief system differently.

If a person is intellegent, he will realize that the vast majority of Muslims are peace-loving individuals. And interpet the Qur'an accordingly.

Answer 4

I don't think this is a proper analogy as religion is supposed to change the follower...a car is in no way supposed to change a driver. Religion is supposedly going to make the follower a better person/driver however there is no car that will make a driver a better person/driver. Get the point?

If religion is supposed to change the hearts and minds of individuals following it, the religion is somehow failing its followers if the followers don't receive a change of heart and an ear for compassion. I think the Moslem religion is seriously failing its followers if so many of its followers are "crashing" into tall buildings. I don't think your religion is working or doing what it is advertised to do. If someone bought that religion/car, they should get their money back or trade it in....I'm only using your analogy...it is a poor one, isn't it?

Answer 5

There is so much good in others that it ill behooves one to speak bad about others.

Jesus Christ said, "Love the sinner, hate the sin",

"Love your neighbour as yourself",

" If someone slaps on one of your cheeks show him the other",

and ultimately Jesus Christ while dying on the cross for no fault of his but only for the sins of others prayed to the Lord,
"Please forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing"

Similarly, Mohammed gave the word of God in the form of Holy Quran so that one can reach the kingdom of Allah.

Answer 6

Good point.

I don't blame a whole group of people when someone shoots up a jewish daycare or stays inside a compound in Waco until his followers burn up.

I blame just those individual psychos.

Answer 7

As I've said before take your hands off the wheel and let god wreck it for you!

Answer 8

The driver, of course, because vehicles do not have free will.

This is why I only judge individuals, not groups.

Answer 9

Hmm. If all mercedes owners saw this moron driving erratically, wouldn't they at least disown this moron from their car club?

Answer 10

You cant compare apples to oranges