On the other hand, if a Muslim woman believes that Islam requires her to wear a headscarf, then there is a fundamental difference between the way the rule affects her and others: she is not simply prevented from making an announcement, or exercising a preference, like the communist or Catholic, but actually prevented from
following her religion.
Where I have a problem with greenies is them wanting to force me into
following their religion.
If
following religion / caste / community / language based electoral canvasing is a crime, why has there been no action taken against them?
I mean, if they were all that interested in doing their own thinking in the first place, they wouldn't be
following a religion anyway.
I would consider
following religion more closely If I could see more positive effects than just a strong community and support for your family and church - going friends.
I realize that appealing to logic when questioning a believer is more or less a useless endeavor, but please explain to us how ignoring your Commandments while invoking your Commandments is supposed to induce any of us into
following your religion?
Folks living their lives
following a religion or not doesn't matter.
Following religion with no evidence whatsoever - now that's biind.
But in a broader definition of the word, yes he is
following a religion too.
Answer honestly Christians, if there was no promise of a heaven and a threat of hell, would you bother
following your religion?
Instead of
following your religion, honestly I rather burn in hell and kiss Satan's ass.
In fact, if you really get right down to it, you're basically Jewish as you are
following the religion of the Jews with some modifications.
The quran is just as unbelievable as the bible is, and all that you get from
following religion is conflict.
My family and I live in the deep south where ignorance and shuting your eyes to logic, and blindly
following religion, is the norm.
spirituality and
following a religion are a personal journey and the author is demanding that those he refers to as «on the fence» to very neatly fit inside one (presuming Christianity) box.
(Got to have a perfect posture unless is not received by God...) I am a Christian, and believe in Christ as my Saviour and don't believe that by
following a religion (doing things certain order, bla, bla) will ever get you anywhere.
the dangers of
following religion have been many — the Inquisition, Jim Jones massacer, Waco, witch trials, pediphile priests, Heavens Gate, etc..
He is also
following a religion based on the teachings of a false prophet (Joseph Smith)
You do realize you are
following a religion based on a god that impregnated another mans wife (why should it do that when it allegedly created the first humans out of dirt?)
I believe the definition of a Christian is one who professes belief in Jesus as Christ or
following the religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus.
obviously they are not
following the religion.
Yes there are some barbaric Muslim governments in middle east but they are not
following our religion.
To be forced to believe and to be browbeaten to follow or in effect die if you reject a certain faith, truly demonstrates how crazy
following religion really is.
And either way it doesn't get around the fact that people
following a religion or self - help figure are self selected for one atti.tude compared to those following people who are talking mostly about just the likely non-existence of something.
They have that immunity because the public
following that religion gives it to them.
He couldn't disallow entrance into heaven to any of his creations, based upon them not
following a religion that they never heard of to begin with.
Do you really think he's gonna be cool with
you following a religion different from his?
Professing belief in Jesus as Christ or
following the religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus.
The orthodox are stuck in the 19th century believing that they are
following the religion of 3000 years earlier, when, in fact, most of their traditions are based on experiences in the diaspora of the last 1900 years, but mostly limited to the past 200.
There's a difference between
following the religion of jesus and the religion Paul and his church created about him.
Concerning the Unbelievers of old, the Qur» an says, «Nay, for they say only: Lo we found our fathers
following a religion, and we are guided by their footprints» (Surah XLIII, 22).
There is absolutely nothing in atheism or not
following a religion that makes one free of mindedness, intolerance, violence and hatred.
To foreigners, however, we all appeared to be
following a religion, and so they started calling our social structure Hinduism.
The ones that do behave are not
following their religion.
I don't hate you at all, but I do see people
following religion that hate out of tradition.
If they do, then they are
following a religion called athiesm and not exactly rational athiest in evey sense of the way.
Did it ever once occur to your limited mental processes that those who kill in the name of their relgion are not
following their religion, and therefore are quite possibly not truly followers of said religion?
I believe in separation of church and state and like to think that young people, even those who firmly
follow a religion, also believe in the separation of church and state.
I have never encountered a single Christian, Muslim, or Jew that actually
followed their religion.
You can blame those claiming to
follow religion, but you can't blame God for how they act.
As soon as chris tians themselves do not
follow their religion, (and of course non-chris tians do not), then there are consequences.
Its also illegal to force members of the military, and anyone at that rate, to worship or attend religious functions when they would choose not to and do not care for or
follow that religion.
Repeating the tired mantra of» all religions are violent blah blah blah» doesn't do anything to deflect proper blame that is being placed at the feat of those who
follow this religion.
At this point it is left up to the individual and either partake (if
they follow the religion) or, as is my case, be respectful and mature and ignore it for the 20 seconds it lasts.
I personally don't
follow either religion, but to compare the inquisition to modern terrorism is silly.
«This includes banishing those who
follow a religion to remote places, incarcerating them, subjecting them to torture in labour camps, and murdering Christians for merely possessing a Bible.
Dirty comments does not make people
follow your religion as it is not a good example and I am sure it is not promoted by any of Gods lelgions.
You and your religion hate the infidels who refuse to convert to Islam or
follow your religion, while my religion feels it's your right to believe in whatever you want as long as it doesn't intrude on anyone else's rights or life.
Those that have faith in something, anything or whose biggest accomplishment in life seems to be insulting those who
follow a religion?
I don't recall asking you to
follow my religion or believe what I believe.