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What do you know about faith (religion)? christians, muslims, jews...etc.
Seeing many debates and questions i figured out that most people dont even know the "basics" of any religio, thats why i am curiouse what do you know about it?
Just say what you think about Islam , Christianity or anything else that is somehave linked to a religion
Roy Bourque 20+
I was raised as a Roman Catholic. I knew at an early age that religion teaches ideas it doesn't fully comprehend, and many others that it doesn't understand at all.
I was trained in the nuclear power field of the U.S. navy. I grew up in the controversy between evolution and creationism. I chose evolution because it made sense. But religion kept creeping up on me in the form of spiritual experiences. Rather than take the view of an atheist, I decided to research religion. What I discovered proved interesting.
Much of the bible can be explained through Eastern philosophy, but that isn't a subject taught by the church. Judaism was the pre-history to Christianity. The gospels and epistles of the New Testament were all written after the death of Jesus. Islam followed Christianity about 600 years later. The Koran was the dictations of Mohammed, written after his death to preserve his teaching. Mohammed started having his dictations after Christian missionaries tried to convert the Arabs to Christianity. Much of the Koran reiterates much of what you will find in the Christian bible.
Religion tries to lead you to a knowledge of God, but most have a poor conception of what God is. Religion personified God, and now the personification is what religion focuses on. There are truths underlying what religion teaches, but those truths are buried beneath dogma and misconceptions.
Eastern philosophy deals with the spiritual path that leads to enlightenment and inner awakening. This is all represented in the Hebrew tabernacle. The Holy of Holies and the ark of the covenant represent the deep wisdom, but it is shrouded in veils. The veils that surround it represent the layers that make up the body (physical, astral, mental, and spiritual).
CHRIST is the seventh energy chakra of Eastern philosophy. It represents the highest level that the mind is capable of. This is what Jesus represents. You have to find it within if you are to find it at all.
Edwin Nazarian 10+
we , all together , would be better off without any religion, (or at least one that called: LOVE)
all of them separately teaches us good and also makes us to compare with one another, which makes us to fight for who is right and who is wrong.
PS: I have been baptised as a Christian, but today's Christianity isn't what it meant to be.
Scott Armstrong 50+
i know that there has been much violence done in the name of religious belief (which is more the fault of the human not the religion).
i think they are all factions of the same thing.
i think the 'problem' with religion is that people tend to attach their identity very strongly to their chosen belief system which is why many people are so very insecure about it which is what often leads them to conflict and violence.
i would think that if a belief or faith is strong then it won't be threatened by someone else's version.
eric rodgers
But, it is true that I am quite ignorant of many basic tenets of most religions. At an early age, fortunately(?) not too early and didn't have it indoctrinated into me, I heard about heaven and hell and it intuitively rang false for me. I no longer bash religions, but my curiosity in things leads me elsewhere.
Do I have a societal obligation to be more knowledgeable of religions? I have sought to gain a better understanding of the perceived insensitivity of some religious folks lately. My take-away in the end was that an underlying foundation of fear is possibly the root cause for the perceived insensitivities.
A main spiritual tenet for me personally is to allow a perception of non-judgment. Who am I to judge others in a less than favorable light? Do not most, if not all, major religions have some form of tenet in line with this goal of unconditional acceptance/non-judgmental nature? Christianity spews this in the form of, 'love thy neighbor' or something to that effect.
Salim Solaiman 50+