Doing away with religious distinctions - Page 3

Posted: 14 years ago
Originally posted by baddie


 
Why the 'Om' at bottom (4 O'clock)??...why the cross and moon-star on top??? ...why ..why....and so many whys???😉
 
..therez no end to it!


ROFL.. hahah...🤣

Posted: 14 years ago
The only people i cant stand are Jehovah's witnesses.. uff they are soooooo annoying.. no matter how much you tell them to stop ... they'll still harass you on saturday/sunday mornings..😳
..😳.. 
Posted: 14 years ago
Originally posted by Summer3


Personally I love to go to whichever place of worship I like and jump from a temple to a mosque to a church etc.


I do that too sometimes..
Posted: 14 years ago
Originally posted by Meena1


The only people i cant stand are Jehovah's witnesses.. uff they are soooooo annoying.. no matter how much you tell them to stop ... they'll still harass you on saturday/sunday mornings..😳
..😳.. 

 
yaar!!!! where do you live? I always hear those stories and I never had a jehovah's witness come visit my house. Two of my jehovah's witness friends who live by me not to mention they even go door to door to give out their version of the bible never came to my house. Well..he did give me some jehovah's witness book once. 😊


Posted: 14 years ago
Originally posted by return_to_hades


People are different and will be different. It is but natural for humans to think, act and believe differently. Hence, based on different beliefs different religions will be there.

 

How do you propose we erase religious differences? Do I eliminate or sideline my personal thought process in order to conform to someone else's thought process? Or ought the other person eliminate and sideline their thought process to conform to my thought process? How do we draw the balancing line of equilibrium? How do you propose we ensure no one feels that they are giving up or compromising too much?

 

This elimination of religious difference is nothing but wishy washy sappy idealism. It is utterly impractical in the real world. After all we are all thinking humans not a bunch of zombies to mindlessly conform to one set process. Actually, the world would be too boring if everyone thought and acted the same.

 

Now live with our differences, that is something we can do. Of course there will be occasional bickering and some inflamed thoughts over these differences. It may affect us in little ways. We agree to disagree and move on to bigger and better things and focus on where we actually have common grounds. Most people in this world, the average ordinary humans do live harmoniously despite fundamental differences.

 

It is the idiots who take things literally and extremely who screw things up. Why should we try to change who we are on account of them. 'And it harm none, do as thou wilt'.



totally agree. 😊 though I totally love my own religion I love learning about other religions too. Religious tolerance is very important. All my best friends are from different religions. It's great.
Posted: 14 years ago
Majority of the people all have religious tolerance. If anyone truly follows his or own religion truthfully then all should be well. It is the minority that cause problems.
Posted: 14 years ago
Minority manages to cause problems because the "Majority" is complacent & puts up with the non sense created by a few.
Posted: 14 years ago
Originally posted by angie.4u


Minority manages to cause problems because the "Majority" is complacent & puts up with the non sense created by a few.
Yes the unreasonable people always call the shots.😆
Posted: 14 years ago

The Ideal of a Universal Religion


THE IDEAL OF A UNIVERSAL RELIGION

by Swami Vivekananda


    Whatever we experience through our senses is marked by the constant inter-play of opposites, forces of attraction and repulsion or centripetal and centrifugal forces in the external world; or love and hate, or good and evil, in the internal world of our minds. This conflict is particularly marked in the field of religion. Religion expresses itself at three levels, the philosophical, the mythological or historical, and the ritualistic. Each of these three levels is marked by the same conflict of opposites, often taking positions of violent extremes. The greatest harm comes from the fanatic. We may not doubt the sincerity of the fanatic but often he has the irresponsibility of a lunatic. The fanatic is the greatest enemy of mankind.

    Given these cleavages, is the idea of the universal religion realistic or just idealistic ? But behind all these differences, we must recognise a deeper level of commonality that suggests that the universal religion already exists, and is constantly evolving and taking clearer shape. No two persons are exactly alike, yet, despite these differences, there is
a common thread of humanity.

    "If I am sure of anything, it is this humanity, which is common to all .... So it is with the universal religion, which runs through all the various religions of the world in the form of God; it must and does exist through eternity. 'I am the thread that runs through all these pearls... ' (Gita) and each pearl is a religion or even a sect thereof, only the majority of mankind is entirely unconscious of it ....."

      How do we cope with differences ? The only rational way is to accept them, not only
as inevitable, but essential. "One must learn that truth may be expressed in a hundred thousand different ways, and that each of these ways is true as far as it goes. We must learn that the same thing can be viewed from a hundred different standpoints, and yet
be the same thing .... "

    "Suppose we all go with vessels in our hands to draw water from the lake. One has a cup, another a jar, another a bucket, and so forth, and we all fill our vessels. The water
in each case takes the form of the vessel carried by each of us, but in every case, water, and nothing but water is in the vessel..... God is like that water filling these different vessels, and in each vessel, the vision of God comes in the form of the vessel.
Yet He is One......."

    "But is there any way of practically working out this harmony in religions ? ... I have also my little plan ... In the first place, I would ask mankind to recognise the maxim :
'Do not destroy'. Iconoclastic religions do no good to this world...... Secondly, take a
man where he stands, and from there give him a lift. If it be true that God is at the
centre of all religions, and that each of us is moving along one of these radii, then
it is certain that all of us must reach that centre. At the centre, where all radii meet,
all our differences will cease; but until we reach there, differences there must be ...... "

    While the human mind and inclination occur in an innumerable variety, four broad
types of men may be recognised for practical purposes : the man of action, the man of emotion, the mystic or man of spirit, and the philosopher or man of intellect. Religion must offer a path for each type to follow, suited to the nature of each type. Ancient religion in India offered four such paths, known as Karma Yoga, Bhakti Yoga, Raja Yoga and Jnana Yoga. These paths transform the selfish to the selfless and lead to Yoga or Union or Realisation of the ultimate Truth.

    "It is imperative that all these Yogas should be carried out in practice. Mere theories about them will not do any good. ... Religion is realisation, not talk, nor doctrine, nor theories, however beautiful they may be. It is being and becoming, not hearing or acknowledging; it is the whole soul becoming changed into what it believes. That is religion

- Swami Vivekananda

Posted: 14 years ago
I believe in Humanism.

When it comes to religion, i feel that Hinduism is da most aesthetic religion of all. There are alot of things for us to know about & realize.
I always aim to grow spiritually day by day.

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