All religions, atheists and all, answer my question please, and I mean everyone?

Question

I am a christian prodistant, and I ask..... Why? Why do we argue? Why can't we live in peace? I f we look into most religions in the world muslims, jewish people, and all major religions today we will find that they preach peace. Why do we feel the need. Don't tell me satan or whatever.... We all have a choice, sure they are partialy responsible but we have the free will to ingnore them. I wonder what any of the gods people believe in would think of them. As a christian I know God is discusted with it all. So I ask, Why?

Answer 1

Why are you trying to start a fight?
Are you saying I don't promote peace?
If you can not accept that I am a peaceful person, than you...

He he, just kidding. LOL

The reason that people are arguing so vehemently is because they are mostly wrong. Yet refuse to admit it.

I think I heard it best in a Monty Python episode where the character said "I'm convinced that the vast majority of wrong thinking people are right!".

Answer 2

1) Free will. This is the biggest reason. We have the free will to decide what we want to believe and do. This often means that our decisions clash. How we handle those clashes is what results in the arguements.
2) Religious beliefs usually involve a view of "there can be only one" (sorry Highlander). But that is how most believe. The official Catholic position is that it is the church instituted by Jesus. The protestant reformation resulted in a break from the original church. From there, more breakaways occur, etc. We believe that ALL churches have at least some element of truth to them. But some say that other churches are TOTALLY wrong. Some even say that the Catholics are NOT Christians and the pope is the anti-christ, etc... This kind of blind hate fuels divisions. Then you have the extremists. This includes the terrorists who give Islam a bad name as well as those Christians who think it is OK to bomb an abortion clinic. Heck, look at Ireland's problems. It is difficult to view a religion as acceptable (or whatever) when you believe that only yours is truly correct. Ironically, this hate and mistrust is usually against what the religion teaches.

3) Democracy fuels #2. In a democratic society, we feel we should be able to vote on ANYTHING. This includes voting on choosing the "correct" relgious views. Ignore the fact that the correct view would be God's, not what we vote on. Ignore the fact that our voting is often more in the interest of what is good for US personally. That is how the idea of birth control become accepted by just about every Christian denomination (except Catholics). People wanted it and gradually just changed the view. We could argue the point, but you can see how it changed. If God wanted it to wrong, it still is. It doesn't change because we want it.

#4) We're human. Someone says our church is wrong (see #2), then we tend to react - often OVERreact. You push us, we push back.

#5) Lack of ministers really ready to have multi-faith activities. I always liked the movie "Keeping the Faith". Other then the premarital sex thing, I loved the view of the Jewish and Catholic churches working together to have that karaoki/party place.

Just a few ideas.

Answer 3

I agree with the sentiment. It is a nice thought.

Part of the problem is that your religion, like all Abrahamic religions, is a "universalistic religion"; it claims to be the only "right" way and that anyone who does not believe it is going to have bad things happen to them (hell).

This gives them an excuse to "fix" people that do not agree with them "for their own good", or to "save" them at "whatever the cost".

Christians have taken up the cause of "Hate the sin, not the sinner" (the quote is from Mahatma Gandhi who was a Hindu) as an excuse to cloak their hate behind a mask of peace.

I hope that you do not fall into their hypocrisy.

Answer 4

Religious disagreements usually turn violent only when a struggle for political power gets involved. There are also some people out there who try to exploit religious division to enhance their own power.That's why I think the separation of church and state is important.

As long as governments treat everyone equally regardless of their religion or lack of religion, most different religions tolerate each other pretty well.

Answer 5

Islam preaches peace? Really? Here are your Latest Daily Offerings from the Religion of Peace:

10/27/2007 (Pattani, Thailand) - A 50-year-old plantation worker is beheaded by Islamic militants.
10/27/2007 (Narathiwat, Thailand) - Muslim radical bomb a restaurant, killing at least one female patron.
10/27/2007 (Mogadishu, Somalia) - Islamic militias kill three civilians in an RPG attack.
10/27/2007 (Paktika, Afghanistan) - A civilian and four local soldiers are killed by a Fedayeen suicide bomber.
10/26/2007 (Baramulla, India) - A 25-year-old man is shot to death by Islamic terrorists.
10/26/2007 (Mingora, Pakistan) - Religious extremists publicly cut the heads off of four security personnel taken hostage.
Reference: The Religion of Peace.com

Answer 6

Well for the most part I agree with you. There's the issue of Holy Land. Too many people want possession of the same piece of land because of it's history and they all believe that the presence of other people is a defilement. That's kind of a tough one. I'd suggest maybe build like a five story building and they can each have a floor?

But yeah, we should get along. We should be more loving.
Peace to you all!!!

Answer 7

Well, good question you have there.... We will not stop arguing on religion if everyone is yet so conscious about what religion one belongs.

The best way to correct this, and the most direct way to do this is to start first with the self. We are all connected, you see. First and foremost, you yourself must be convinced that we all belong to one faith because we believe in the One Source of all. Get to your core with this and then you will touch everyone's core. The effect on you is, you will see from your question that you will need to reformulate them.

Answer 8

I agree with you. I am a pagan, and I am so tired of Christians of all varieties telling, in public, out of no where (such as on the bus), that I am going to hell, or that god hates me, or any variety of things. I will not put my pentagram away for them, I do not believe in satan, I believe in the Goddess.

You are so right, I wish people could just live and let live. Let people believe what they want to believe as long as it is not destructive.

Answer 9

you put the finger into the problem. The point is that each of the religion and atheists wanted to be always right, some wishes people to start worshipping their god or Gods. They apparently don't care for peace, they wanted to be always right. That is the problem of humankind, we're whiny little brats who are spoiled by the belief of a deity.

Answer 10

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