2007-04-18 10:16:31 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Misery loves company.
2007-04-18 10:20:21 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
People will tell you all sorts of things. Would you like legal restraints placed on that capacity? What criteria would you use? What kind of culture would be generated by such legal constraints? Here's the thing, whatever it is that people tell you, you can choose to believe what they say or not. As far as why one might tell you where you are supposed to worship-- perhaps they believe that their form of worship has particular benefits, or they believe in a revelation that they understand themselves compelled to share, or maybe they just have an intrusive personality. But whatever the reason, faith in their particular practice of worship cannot really be coerced-- it must be chosen-- and chosen by you.
2007-04-18 18:02:50 · answer #2 · answered by Timaeus 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This question sounds a little bitter and is obviously the result of an ill informed opinion. If you did even half an ounce of research in to most major religions, you'd find that most of them present a "truth" that is mutually exclusive with all other truths. In other words people who choose such a religion have already chosen to embrace a view of the world that includes you and is absolute, leaving you no say in the way things are from their perspective, by definition.
2007-04-18 17:26:06 · answer #3 · answered by voraciousvegetables 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why should it matter when you're always free to to not worship how they tell you to? Since true worship is a matter of the heart and not simply mere action, no one can force another to worship in a certain way.
2007-04-18 18:29:52 · answer #4 · answered by Deof Movestofca 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One of the foundations of the United States was Religious Freedom.
2007-04-18 18:40:33 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Exactly!
Belief in a higher power, or whatever, should always be your thing and your thing alone, and no one has the right to tell you what and where and how to believe! You go dude! :)
2007-04-18 17:21:06 · answer #6 · answered by equilibriumdisrupter 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They shouldn't, it's your business. They should worry more about their own souls and less about other people's. I wish people would learn that preaching is judging in a way.
2007-04-18 17:40:16 · answer #7 · answered by Whiskey Tango Foxtrot 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I like George Carlin's take on it > people get mad if you pray to the wrong invisible man.
2007-04-18 17:21:12 · answer #8 · answered by BANANA 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋