In a world where so many are busy using religious verse as a weapon of judgment, who will stand and use reason and empathy as an instrument of compassion?
A great philosopher once said, “we do not know where the future will take us. What we do know is that we will get there on the dreams and aspiration of those who came before us.”
Christian, Buddhist, Muslim, Pagan, Taoist, Jewish, …these are but labels of a greater truth; that God compels man to believe. The question is, how will you be remembered? Will you be remembered for what you believed? Or will you be remembered for how you exemplified your faith?
And if your faith compels you to judge and to hate…then is your faith really worth having? …If it alienates you from your fellow man, is this the purpose of faith? Is this what God wants?
There is, in my opinion, but one truth…love. And that, I believe, is the essence of every holy writ. God proclaims love. God IS love.
How then, can any man or woman, justify hate?
2007-10-25 17:46:03 · 15 answers · asked by E.J. 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I am a Pagan and my beliefs help me to be a better person.To think of us all as part of one big family.It helps me to understand all the different people and personality's ,no one is no better or worse than the other and it's best to forgive and to love.
When there is hate and anger there is no peace of mind,no way we can completely be happy having those feelings.I have learned that in my life that when we accept the way others are and appreciate the difference,that's when we can truly be at peace and care for all for who and what they are.
(Many blessings)
2007-10-25 18:09:55 · answer #1 · answered by margaret moon 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't justify hate of another person. I too believe that God is Love and that everything he says is out of Love for us. Even the rules. I do think it is right to make people think about why they believe what they believe. That is not to condemn them but to make them think..... am I doing what God wants by following my "religion". I am constantly doing that with myself. I look into other religions and ask why so that I might be better able to learn about God.
I believe when I die, people will remember my examples of faith. At least that is what I hope. I hope they will remember me talking about God and how awesome He is. I hope they will remember the times I opened my home to them. I hope they will remember when I treated them as if they were my own children. I also hope they remember the gleam in my eye when I talk about the love I found at the church I attend.
2007-10-25 17:57:04 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I will be remembered for love.
I've been an elementary school teacher for 26 years.
My former students STILL come to see me. I am not teaching their children.
One of my students chose to call ME when she was in the hospital after having had her first child.
One year I gave out a survey on the last day of school. One of the questions was "What is the most important thing you learned from me?"
These were some of the answers:
(I spelled it the way they did.)
1. "to treat each other good"
2. "to bare one another's burdens"
3. " to love each other"
2007-10-25 17:56:00 · answer #3 · answered by batgirl2good 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I agree in part but it really does come down to who is the judge and love without god happens quite often as well as with those who hold faith in the unseen.
2007-10-25 17:53:51 · answer #4 · answered by dogpatch USA 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
little bit of the two. He dumped me to flow back to his ex.. i became so disenchanted, my grandmother baked me chocolate chip cookies to cheer me up. It did no longer paintings. My mom took me procuring. It form of labored. the following day i became wearing my new outfits, and all started relationship his mate.. It pissed him off, and that i've got been given him back. I ditched him a month later for an older guy with a automobile.. Aah.. To be 15 lower back..
2016-10-14 02:02:57 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Although I like the first answer I have to go with:
Hopefully I won't be remembered, but my God will be. Before "God is Love" God is Just.
And since you disagree, we'll agree to disagree, okay. ; )
2007-10-25 17:53:44 · answer #6 · answered by tantiemeg 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well lets see, first why should I justify anything to anyone? second IRL I hope to be remebered as a fun loveing non judgmental person. thridly here in YA R/S I dont really care how people remeber me. they will probibly remeber me ( assumeing they remeber me at all) as a royal B itch, who had an opinion about everything and took her worldy agravations out on people here
2007-10-25 17:53:03 · answer #7 · answered by stacy o 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I would hope that I am not remembered for my good or bad, but for my ability to balance the two evenly.
2007-10-25 17:49:56 · answer #8 · answered by nikola333 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I will be remembered for being unnecessarily blunt and tactless.
I have Gregory House to thank for that.
2007-10-25 17:48:47 · answer #9 · answered by Skunk 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I imagine I'll be remembered by those I care about. I don't care whether anyone else remembers.
2007-10-25 17:51:55 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋