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not just a list... I really want to know what your thoughts are on how to change the world.. can it be done? why or why not?

2007-05-18 12:00:40 · 9 answers · asked by dingoboy 1 in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

These are great answers, but i'm looking for more of the challenges that one will face when trying to do Christs will in the world.

2007-05-18 12:28:15 · update #1

9 answers

The first challenge will be to learn how to stand up in a strong under toe current of human hatred of truth. After you learn to balance, you then will recognize the awesome job at hand.
A tremendous challenge will be to not turn your back on truth when you seem to be the only one taking such a radical position, while everyone else simply does not see it nor will they go there.
If mankind glimpsed for a moment the spiritual idea, then the transformation would be well under way, but without this recognition of the substantially of Spirit, God, then the human thought is satisfied with sleeping.
The world is changing now, but it appears that it will take many generations to move from present beliefs to understanding.

2007-05-18 13:24:37 · answer #1 · answered by ? 6 · 0 0

For starters, morality is a personal opinion. Each of us enters into an unspoken social contract with the civilization they inhabit. "I do not wish to live among thieves, so I am not a thief." This is a variation of the Golden Rule and is pretty much universal in all human cultures. If you imagine you're equipped by your God to prescribe what constitutes moral behavior for other people, you are nothing more than a petty tyrant. Other people's morality is no body's business in a free society. Modern life is difficult enough without some self-righteous tyrant telling folks how to behave in their own homes.

Please understand that I certainly support a stable civil society governed by laws. What I cannot support is anyone who presumes to tell me what is, or is not moral. Down that path lies tyranny and ultimately civil war. In other words, you mind your own morality and I'll mind mine. If you think your imaginary God and/or your pseudo-pious religiosity gives you the right to decide what's moral for everyone else, then you're an enemy of personal freedom and I'll oppose you by every means at my disposal, down to my last breath.

I guess the bottom line is that a truly moral individual would know better than to force his own religious superstitions into other people's lives.

2007-05-18 12:29:54 · answer #2 · answered by Diogenes 7 · 0 0

Phrased as it is in your question, what this protagonist faces is the fact that he/she himself/herself is an antagonist.

Unless they are an enlightened individual (I'm talking Buddha enlightened), what they deem to be moral is only relative to what they've subscribed to morally. Not to be biased, but a little research on the history of Catholicism might shed some light on that. The Conquests, the inquisitions, etc.

More realistically, changing the world is possible when things lesser than human are abandoned and things greater than human are adopted. More specifically, looking at WWII from a very BROAD perspective (in the case of war, politics play as big a part, if not moreso, as humanity), countries united to support different ideas, one side Communism and the other side human rights. Clearly the outcome of that war had a lasting hand in guiding the course of history.

2007-05-18 12:14:12 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

God alone can change the world, We just do our best to do as He would have us do. Call to mind the song "If we are the body". Moralizing an infinitely immoral group is hard. You can't make people want to do the right thing. To seek to remedy the world is an enormous task. Good luck fighting the good fight!

2007-05-18 12:06:36 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0 3

A moral individual would be a faithful follower of the one who died to save him from his sin. Since that doesn't include everyone, what are your thoughts on tyranny and fascism?

2007-05-18 12:09:20 · answer #5 · answered by hisgloryisgreat 6 · 1 0

you can do meaningful work in your community. Teach, volunteer, start a community garden, pick up litter, catch feral cats and have them neutered and let them go again to live out their lives, mow the lawn for some elderly folks or do some odd jobs around their house for them...list goes on and on.

2007-05-18 12:07:10 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2 0

The world will be changed in an instant when Christ gets here.

2007-05-18 12:04:50 · answer #7 · answered by Jeancommunicates 7 · 0 2

yes, one step at a time, one person at a time.it's like a domino effect.love & inspiration can be contagious ♥

2007-05-18 12:11:21 · answer #8 · answered by polly-pocket 5 · 0 0

THE ONLY ACTIONS AND THE ONLY PERSON YOU CAN REALLY CONTROL IS YOUR OWN. YOU HAVE TO LEAD BY EXAMPLE. IF EVERYONE JUST WORRIED ABOUT THEIR OWN ACTIONS, IT WOULD ALL COME TOGETHER.

2007-05-18 12:09:01 · answer #9 · answered by crazycelt@sbcglobal.net 2 · 1 0

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