A relgion that makes sense, anyway...
2007-06-11 07:26:45 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
You've given birth to children. Is it not loving, violent and gruesome at the same time?
We'd like to think that love is nice and pretty all the time, but love means you set boundaries sometimes. Love means you tell the truth - not in order to hurt someone -- but even if it hurts them at times.
My take on what I perceive you to be asking is that the violence and gruesome aspects of Christianity - particularly the OT - is either when God was leaving people to their own devices and allowing them to see the consequences of their actions.
I'd prefer it if we could have stayed in Eden. But saying that for God to be loving is for there to be no conflict and no consequences is like saying couples who really love each other never fight.
I think couples who never fight just never talk.
There are some aspects of the Bible that I wrestle with. I think we're meant to wrestle them.
2007-06-11 11:55:41 · answer #1 · answered by Contemplative Chanteuse IDK TIRH 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sure... Violent the Father, Loving the Son, and Gruesome the Holy Spirit.
C'mon, doesn't it make sense?
:^)
2007-06-11 14:32:40 · answer #2 · answered by Snark 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A religion is a set of beliefs and practices. It is not, despite the popular mythology, a collective of "the borg" acting in concert, unified at the hip.
The people who call themselves adherents of any religion can be loving or violent. I know Muslims who are solitary practitioners of the Sufi tradition of saying the 99 names of God. They practice the emptying of self in this ritual, so that they can be joined to the Love of God. Such a person has no more in common with Osama Bin Laden than you or I do.
2007-06-11 14:32:49 · answer #3 · answered by evolver 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well yes.
Religions are often loving for other members of the religion, the fellow faithful and the "in-group."
Meanwhile, they're violent, gruesome, hateful, prejudiced, murderous and so on against non-believers, other faiths, etc.
2007-06-11 14:34:46 · answer #4 · answered by Mike K 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's more likely people's misunderstandings of religion which are gruesome and violent.
"If the Catholic church were what many non Catholics THINK it is, then Catholics would hate it too!" (Bishop Sheen from the writings of GK Chesterton, a convert to the Catholic church)
2007-06-11 14:32:22 · answer #5 · answered by gswidemark 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well I was going to say yes but then you through in that whole making sense addendum and that through them all right out the door!
2007-06-11 14:36:13 · answer #6 · answered by Aria 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You mean like christianity? Not hardly. And no religion "makes sense."
2007-06-11 14:31:11 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You should read about some people's fetishes in the back of alternative newspapers. If it can exist in real life, I guess it can exist in religion.
2007-06-11 14:30:07 · answer #8 · answered by The Bog Nug 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
none of them make sense. And yes they are all pretty much violent and claim to be all about peace and harmony.
2007-06-11 14:31:04 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It happens in bad movies all the time. Aren't they a good indicator of real life?
2007-06-11 14:29:57 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋