just project our own humanisic values upon it?
muslim, christian, budhist, hindu and atheist we all agree that we exist? and that the energy of life runs through us?
2007-03-06 06:42:45 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
by 'energy of life' you can take it as you wish, but can we deny that we exist, that we percieve life and think and feel and see?
2007-03-06 06:51:16 · update #1
I don't believe in any god, and I don't believe in any sort of "energy of life", except in the loosest possible sense. I am alive because the chemical reactions in my body persist in sustaining my vital organs, and particularly my brain. I am not alive because there is some sort of magical, invisible energy or "life-force" running through me; that's Medieval biology, not modern.
It's also not really accurate to say that all religions worship the same God; many religions, particularly Eastern ones, don't "worship" anything at all, or don't have any participating deities. Many polytheistic religions can't really be said to be worshiping gods even remotely similar to your "God". And even the Gods of the Abrahamic religions have many very important distinctions between them, such as the Trinity of the Christian God, so equating them is debatably accurate (about as accurate as, say, conflating Zeus and Jupiter, two associated gods from different pantheons who nevertheless had more differences than most people realize).
I think if you really want to find a shared commonality between all people, you should appeal to their humanity, to their love and kindness and beauty, not to their ideological beliefs. People will never agree on what deity, if any, to believe in; but they may agree on other, more basic things.
2007-03-06 06:46:29 · answer #1 · answered by Rob Diamond 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
People of the book, Muslims, Jews, and Christians all believe in the same God. But Buddhist, Hindu, and Atheist don't. The People of the book all believe in the same God even if it's very hard to believe. We just worship God in different ways. Also Muslims say Allah(God) but that is the same meaning as God just in Arabic. Don't think Muslims are terrorists we condemn acts of violence towards any religion. When Muslims say Allahu-Akbar they're just saying God is great.
2007-03-06 14:59:10 · answer #2 · answered by mj58 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
no. Muslims/atheists will argue that Allah, Jehovah, and God are the same deity, but they are really missing the point.
When I say that they are not the same, I am not referring to the translation, but the "person". I know Allah means God in aramaic but the muslim deity and the Christian Deity are complete opposites. It'd be like calling me someone else, just because my name is similar.
and God isn't an "it", God is who He says He is. atheists don't even believe in God. Hindus are not montheistic. everyone in their right mind knows humanity exists. what energy of life? I don't believe in that "cosmic energy running through us" stuff, nor do I assign my own opinions of God's nature to Him.
sorry if that offended anyone, I'm just tired of being accused of not doing my research.
2007-03-06 14:52:17 · answer #3 · answered by Hey, Ray 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Many faiths particularly Christians, have lost sight of the fact that they all once worshipped the same God, and it was only the differing prophets they then followed that made them different religions. Jewism is still waiting for its prophet.
Buddhists seek Nirvana. They do not believe in God.
2007-03-06 14:51:05 · answer #4 · answered by Nick W 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
all rivers lead to the same ocean
but if the ocean is "god"(or "goddess"/ or seomthing else) is irrelavent for me because i look on "god/goddess/whatnot" as metaphors for finding our own selves. they are like fingers pointing at the goal, and not goals themselves.
but i have to add one more thing here. if a person says that "my god is the only god and everyone else who does not believe in him/her/it goes to hell/wrong" then he would be THE most ignorant/religocentric idiot out there.
humans are different from each other,everyone is unique, so how can there be only "one right path"?
2007-03-07 18:27:05 · answer #5 · answered by vandhiyathevan 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
lets think abt it n u decide ok?
when u thnk of how do we ppl exist..wuts ur answer?
when u think how the other animals exist..wuts ur answer?
when u think how the whole earth exist..wuts ur answer?
when u think how the whole galaxy exists..wuts ur answer?
when u think how the whole univers which we cant discover except this very small part(our galaxy)which is relatively small(like a drop in a sea) wuts ur answer?
either ull get crazy or ull get to the point tht theres some one who created all of this..and ofcourse its not a human or an animal,if so,then we should hv known how 2 creat a sun or a star or a planet and ANYTHING else..so i ,by thinking and not by wut everyone else says..think tht there definately is a God..but i dont think tht we r his sons..i think we r more like somethings he created like all the other things around us or else we would hv been the same as God which leeds 2 no point ..
now i beleive in "this" GOD who ever he is..
2007-03-06 14:54:05 · answer #6 · answered by lodst 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No I don't beleive they exist
I believe those people have and made a name for themselves
Have you ever thought, that Christ is the only one in any of these religions that is alive
The rest lived and died like every other PERSON in the world
Jesus went to heaven and lives as God/Son/Holy spirit today and will come back.
Now give me any other religion that can promice you that
2007-03-06 14:48:48 · answer #7 · answered by Crystal Blue 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
No, I don't believe in any gods. I don't know what "energy of life runs through us" means.
2007-03-06 14:48:23 · answer #8 · answered by ZER0 C00L ••AM••VT•• 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Believes in no god(s).
Believes in no higher power or cosmic force.
We are alone and on our own on this tiny little world of ours.
Why does seem to scare the hell out of a lot of people? It doesn't me.
2007-03-06 14:50:39 · answer #9 · answered by ndmagicman 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes!
We should all believe in the one God who created all of us!
2007-03-06 15:15:12 · answer #10 · answered by SOCCER GIRL! 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋