I know we can debate what is right, but really deep down we all know what is.
I know Christians will be tempted to say God is right, the bible is right and blah blah blah, but no matter your faith whether Christian, Jew, Muslim pagan etc is not this a good way to live?
2007-08-11 07:51:35 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
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2007-08-11 08:07:31 · update #1
Fred, doing what is right is not forcing our beliefs on people but making sure we as individuals do what is right. I do not think it is right to force or beliefs on others. In fact doing what is right means not forcing our beliefs on others.
2007-08-11 08:57:30 · update #2
Didnt you just know this was gonna get preachy?
2007-08-11 11:23:54 · answer #1 · answered by Fae 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How we are raised and our experiences through out life can mute and even destroy that voice inside that tells us what is right. If we believe others who tell us that our voice can't be trusted and that we must instead put our trust into another person or a book, then what we see as right can be mutated into something very wrong. Yes to do what is right and to live that in our daily lives is the best way to live. But rare is the person who lives that in reality. When the voice deep down inside has to be reclaimed after attempts by others to destroy or permanently mute it, a struggle of spirit can either make or break a soul. I believe that that struggle can bring on a "dark night of the soul" that will either lead to enlightenment or total darkness. I have ventured down that path and emerged stronger. I have brothers and sisters who also went that way but came out damaged almost to an unrepairable degree. Religion when forced on another with no regard to what that other person's actual path is meant to be can do immeasurable damage and bring on this sort of spiritual destruction. The insensitivity of Christians and Muslims to the harm that they cause overwhelms me at times. If the God that they claim to follow condones this, and to all appearances he does, then I have little hope for the future of these people and perhaps our own future as well. Blessed Be.
2007-08-11 16:30:12 · answer #2 · answered by Praire Crone 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, we actually know everything. Focusing the power within is greater than the power of the world. That is the secret to life, the spirit within is all knowing, infinite in creative power, all loving, all good. Our inner world creates our outer world. However, in the past this secret was kept from the many, it is only in the beginning of this 21 century that the collective consciousness is awakening in all of us. God, Allah, Energy this is all the same One source the only difference is the terminology. However, some people tend to add rules or fog the truth from others to gain control, yet this control will not last for this century marks the beginning of a new era, a new way of thinking, that will propel our human civilization to a level of God-like status. We are just in the beginning stages soon very soon all will come to understand this power and then use this power to create the perfect life they always wished for.
The power within is greater than the power of the world. For the outer world is our manifestations of our inner world, when people learn how to control their inner world they will be able to manifest it in the outer world. Like an architect creating a building in his or her mind which manifests in the outer world so to shall the perfect life we wish for. A way is always made.
2007-08-11 16:56:46 · answer #3 · answered by Paul 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that doing what is right is not a matter of religious law or dogma but doing what is loving.
That is my only religion, the religion of love.
Jesus said that we are to love God and that has to mean what we understand God to be and my understanding is God the source of unconditional love no matter what legalistic people say from the OT, and to love each other as we would want to be loved.
I want to be loved the way I know Jesus would love me, so that's the way I try to love others. Jesus made no exceptions and did not say oh no I only meant love people who are just like you or who only do the things you think are right
He loved them as they were. And you know when people are given that kind of love they turn into the bright spark we can all be
A candle burning with the same fire of love that Jesus taught and the source of which is God. and who are we to deny the light that is shining because the candle has the label hindu on it or atheist on it or anything else.
2007-08-11 16:07:48 · answer #4 · answered by Praise Singer 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No. We do not all know deep down what is right, because right is relative, and enforcing subjective feelings of what is personally right on those with different opinions is horrible. That is one of the primary faults with religion.
2007-08-11 15:22:10 · answer #5 · answered by Fred 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I remeber this line from letters from iwo jima
"Do what is right because it is right"
2007-08-11 14:59:55 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
sometimes doing what is right, isn't always the best choice.
2007-08-11 14:56:40 · answer #7 · answered by Low Rain 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"If it is not right, do not do it. If it is not true, do not say it."
Marcus Aurelius
2007-08-11 14:55:49 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋