2007-07-21 02:19:08 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Uh, no...as a Catholic, everytime I go to the library or research another religion on the Internet, my priest shows up at my door and gives me 50 lashes with a wet noodle.
I guess someday I will learn not to Google "Islam."
Oh no, my priest is at my door. I guess he found out that I even had the audacity to answer this question.
Wish me luck...it looks like it is "noodle time."
2007-07-21 02:23:21 · answer #1 · answered by Mr. G 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think they SHOULD study other religions provided they don't study AS said religions. As long as they're keeping an objective view of it, there's nothing at all wrong with learning something new. Just make sure they actually learn the facts from someone actually qualified to teach it. Pentacostal ministers "Satanizing" everything not Pentacostal doesn't count.
2007-07-21 02:34:34 · answer #2 · answered by Khalin Ironcrow 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I was not allowed to do such things when I was brought up in a Christian home. I studied martial arts at a Zen Buddhist temple and attended some services there. My sister heard about it and told her preacher, who had the congregation praying to have the "Devil of Buddhism" removed from me. The Buddhist priests did not mind if I attended Christian churches. Christianity is too strict in many ways.
2007-07-21 02:36:23 · answer #3 · answered by miyuki & kyojin 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, Christians are called to be the light of Christ in this world. Light dispels darkness and Christians who engage in apologetics often study other religions so that they can highlight the differences between the Christian faith that is salvation from God and religions that teach that a person is saved by their own works.
2007-07-21 02:27:42 · answer #4 · answered by Martin S 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
2 Timothy 3:16
2007-07-21 02:21:21 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sure we are we must understand the flaws in order to point them out. Jesus always know who he was talking to, we must also. We cannot believe in other religions along side ours though. I have spen a long time in study of other religions, it is one thing that made ma a stronger Cristian. I see that other religions a flawed making mine more apparent.
2007-07-21 02:25:20 · answer #6 · answered by Michael M 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course! God's Word, the Bible, tells us to tell the Good News to those who don't believe. How else do we know if they believe or not if we don't study other religions? JESUS is the only way, however, He said it, He showed it and that settles it. :-)
2007-07-21 02:24:56 · answer #7 · answered by Devoted1 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Surely we are allowed, some of us to understand those other religions and some to find fault with them. I do to understand them and find common ground. There is much more that all religions have in common then are differences.
2007-07-21 02:23:49 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I can't answer for others, but I studied enough to get a Th.D in Comparative Theology. And I'm Catholic, btw.
2007-07-21 02:22:44 · answer #9 · answered by Granny Annie 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Other beliefs abound within Christianity itself. There is the original gospel and there is the later version of it and all the interpretations of the two sides.
2007-07-21 02:25:03 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋