Full Version: Whose Religion is Right?
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I am a Christian (Catholic) and my religion is very important to me. The Christian religion TEACHES tolerance, but do Christians really take that teaching seriously. By the some of the posts here, I think they do not.
MT
I am a Christian (Catholic) and my religion is very important to me. The Christian religion TEACHES tolerance, but do Christians really take that teaching seriously. By the some of the posts here, I think they do not.
MT
QUOTE(cyan @ Oct 19 2002, 05:52 PM)
I don't think the specifics are that important. I'm not a scholar of the Bible, so correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't the bible merely specify that the day of rest fall on the seventh day? In Muslim countries, I believe that the week begins on Saturday, so Friday is the seventh day for them. The calendar is a human invention.
Additonally many of the teachings in the Bible and other religious texts are period specific. The idea is that through god, man can have a better life, but as technology increases, some of the teachings are no longer relevant. Religion can't be static.
Do you know anything about the Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell? It's a fabulous series that discusses the archetypes that consistently reveal themselves throughout the ages in various myths and cultures. The symbols change, but the meanings remain the same.
Additonally many of the teachings in the Bible and other religious texts are period specific. The idea is that through god, man can have a better life, but as technology increases, some of the teachings are no longer relevant. Religion can't be static.
Do you know anything about the Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell? It's a fabulous series that discusses the archetypes that consistently reveal themselves throughout the ages in various myths and cultures. The symbols change, but the meanings remain the same.
agreed
Religion isn't about whos right and whos wrong. It isnt about how many testaments are here and how many toras are able to be read and it isnt about telling each other that we are more accurate than the other. Its about having faith or loyalty in something. Not knowing all the facts but knowing enogh to decide for yourself what is right in your view, mind, or heart. And faith isn't following others faith is a hunch a gut feeling if you will. Faith is the one of the only things that can not be taken from you if you truly believe in something or truly have faith in it, then no one can persuade you otherwise.
Fubar--It has always been my contention that this faith that you say some or most religious people have ought to be either adequately defined or these people haven't the slightest clue as to what they are talking or behaving about. It is especially true of christians and jews, mainly because of their economic situation, that they have very little if any faith in the notion of a ghost controling even a small portion of their material or "spiritual" (read "that which causes inspiration") life. Faith by definition and as a practice means trust, predictability, and assurance that whatever one has "faith in" will be responsible for requests (prayers and supplications) being answered. I know of no-one who has a faith in a ghost other than their verbal declarations and financial donations that they can easily afford (mainly for reasons of guilt, show, tax purposes or this-is-what-you're-supposed-to-do as they drop their coins in the collection plate). Besides, as M Twain points out very clearly, they're are few to none who are interested in spending more than one hour a week in in observance of their "faith". Just think how they'll react when they are in church permanently after they kick the bucket. They can't even stand it for more than one hour out of 280.
If you still have faith in this ghost try comparing your faith in the ghost to your faith in your dentist, doctor, or your lawyer.
P.S. Does anyone have any idea just how often this so-called president practices going to church? After all he DOES say that j.c. is the only hero in his life.
Religionists are so chicken**** when it comes to demonstrating their "faith". 10 percent...a lousy ten percent of their income devoted to the maker of all things including their life and the rest devoted to "material" investments. Ha! What chicken**** these people are! They are such fakes it's laughable.
If you still have faith in this ghost try comparing your faith in the ghost to your faith in your dentist, doctor, or your lawyer.
P.S. Does anyone have any idea just how often this so-called president practices going to church? After all he DOES say that j.c. is the only hero in his life.
Religionists are so chicken**** when it comes to demonstrating their "faith". 10 percent...a lousy ten percent of their income devoted to the maker of all things including their life and the rest devoted to "material" investments. Ha! What chicken**** these people are! They are such fakes it's laughable.
The man is right!!!
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