It seems that many people come here to take aim and aggression against those who believe, when they don't, or against those who don't believe, when they do. I was just wondering, what's the point? What's really gained?
2007-05-30 20:18:07 · 27 answers · asked by Eudora 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I'm not talking about your views or 'facts.' I'm talking about hostilities, emotions, outright anger and intollerence.
My point is, Why is it NOT OK for someone else to BELIEVE... or NOT BELIEVE?
2007-05-30 20:27:24 · update #1
Well, in all honesty, I hope to learn something new or maybe even gain a new insight. However, the insults never stop flying. It's hard to learn something good or nice about another religion when all they do is insult your beliefs (and sometimes personally attack you). It's become a need to protect rather that to learn. Nothing is really gained, but from what I can tell, people are definitely NOT what they preach!
2007-05-30 20:23:40 · answer #1 · answered by munkees81 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
I might be viewed as one of those.
My family escaped Islam in the 1950s.
I've read the Quran and other holy books of Islam.
When I see someone posting lies about Islamic beliefs or quoting things in isolation as if that showed "the REAL Islam", I often tell people to actually read the book in question and post some other quotes that show they are NOT showing everything.
I encourage people to read both sides.
What is gained is to make people aware of a centuries old aggressive policy by Islam to take over the world by any means possible. We've expected this war for decades.
We didn't expect the West to respond so quickly, and now we wonder if it was quickly enough.
Non-Islamic people defend Islam without bothering to read it's holy books or truly understand the cultures that comprise it or the beliefs that drive it. The uneducated attempts to equate all religions as if they are all similar is foolish and patently untrue, like saying all animals are the same because they are alive and have senses.
This is the spot where such lies defending Islam are posted. Would you insist that those lies are not answered? Is that the world we wish to live in in the United States?
Oh, I am not religious. I've studied most holy books and philosophies of all sorts.
At the same time, there is much that is worth saving in Islam. IF the efforts of the West are successful, and a revolution is ignited within Islam to embrace freedom, Islam may survive this.
I will cheer on that day.
2007-05-31 03:31:26 · answer #2 · answered by mckenziecalhoun 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Your observation is absolutely correct. People live here like a frog that is born inside a deep well. The Frog believes that his well is the world, and there is nothing outside it. People here are in a similar condition. They believe that their belief is the greatest.
Religion is just a way. Spirituality is the knowledge about spirit or self. All the religions take human beings to the same place, to the God. But belief systems are different. That's all.
People stick to the belief systems, not to the spirit.
Anybody who gives you a belief system is your enemy. Believe in the self, not on any belief systems.
Master's grace
2007-05-31 03:45:52 · answer #3 · answered by Master's Grace 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No, I do not believe that that was the intended purpose of this forum during the concept and creation.
Since this is a non-physical contact forum, there are those individual that do use this forum for that precise act.
We must remember that these "hit and run bandits" of abuse are hiding behind a screen and using a keyboard.
Ask yourself what these same individuals would do in a face to face confrontation. My reply would be nothing at all.
The anonymity of the computer gives courage to those who would not show it in public and because of it will say whatever hateful, condemning and criticizing things that they think they can get away with.
To me it continues to show that there is still much hatred and ignorance of others and their beliefs, lifestyles, and cultures despite what the politicians and polls say.
2007-05-31 03:40:38 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Maybe... but what it should be is a place to share your beliefs and enlighten the people who seek the enlightenment. No one can ignore their spiritual side that longs for purpose and understanding. To reasonably and to the best extent of their knowledge answer the questions that people have about religion should be the answerer's top priority.
2007-05-31 03:26:43 · answer #5 · answered by EverLearningFool 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Eudora: Of course, the believers are going to blame the non-believers and conversely. The answer to your question, can be answered by this - It is far easier to attack the person opposed to attacking the issue. Intelligent people attack the issue and not the person presenting the issue at hand !
2007-05-31 03:38:51 · answer #6 · answered by guraqt2me 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes it can be, to be honest, if you're one of those people that likes taking pot shots a religious folk, it's a bit like shooting fish in a barrel here isn't it?
You just have to ignore them and carry on, they'll soon disappear.
Bear in mind that this is also a place where religious folk can take cheap shots are non believers like me, who want to ask thought provoking questions and instantly get shot down for not believeing in anything.
2007-05-31 03:24:22 · answer #7 · answered by Steven N 4 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Intolerance is the opposite of spirituality.
2007-05-31 07:43:32 · answer #8 · answered by peacebliss 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The world is a mingled yarn, where good and evil co exisists- Shakespere.
2007-05-31 03:42:20 · answer #9 · answered by Ismail Eliat 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
yes, true. many ppl are no longer clear-headed at this choatic period of the human world.
what's the point of them blasting this religion or that practice, if they do not cultivate their heart in the first place?
*sigh.... humans...
2007-05-31 03:49:25 · answer #10 · answered by walawala 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋