Islam and Christianity are religions of peace, as
well as other religions of the world.
Where Lawler and many others declare that Christianity is a necessary precondition of humane values, I simply assert that humane values, or more accurately the values we hold today, used Christianity, as
well as other religions and philosophies, as cultural vessels.
As it seeks liberation from this dimension of its past, as it encounters feminist theology, the new consciousness of women, blacks, third world peoples, and their suppressed traditions, post-Holocaust Judaism as
well as other religions, Christianity is transformed, becomes more authentically relational and creative, richer, more inclusive, less trivial in its harmony.
Not that one needs to prove a negative, i.e. that which has no proof, but what you can prove is that Christians (as
well as other religions) know deep down it's all mythology.
Islam believes Jews and Christians are people of the book and should be treated with respect as
well as other religions.
The major Christian churches, as
well as other religions, around the world, do not oppose science.
Not exact matches
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Sad watching folks use
religion to view themselves
as better than
others.
Well that's an ironic claim seeing
as half of the Christian belief system was taken from
other earlier
religions.
Unfortunately,
religion is here to stay, so they might
as well try and get along with each
other.
Religions incorporated and codified these basic social values and skills, and quickly learned to take credit for them —
as if, without the
religion, we would be doomed to not have them — although we see them in every human society, including hunter - gather tribes with no sense of gods
as we understand them After many centuries of religious domination, enforced through pain of death, ostracization or
other social sanctions, allowing
religion to take credit,
as well as failing to question
other religious claims — has become a cultural habit.
If you worship an invisible god, you'd
better damn
well keep your
religion invisible
as well and quit using it
as a justification for every evil thing you do to
other people.
But until we come to the end of ourselves then we are going to do and say what we want, even
as it was with me: It's one thing to be a heathen, even
as I was, but a whole
other ball game to set our hearts on God and His truth; yet, that can only come when we are sick and tired of being sick and tired of our own lives and we just give up, we know then who has given up by the one they advocate for, even has given place to: Paul said; with my heart I want to do what is right, but my flesh does what I hate: This is when God's grace is sufficient, because our hearts are right with God, but our flesh is not: There is a war going on within these temples, therefore; even
as our flesh wins out to do what we hate, our hearts are set on God and His ways which has been established in the Word of Truth, which then causes us to stand and speak forth what we believe, even
as this causes a rending to happen within us, for Christ to be formed in us this needs to be,
as we come up in His glories even for a
better resurrection for them who believe: The heart wars against our flesh, even
as Christ wars against the man of sin within: For out of the abundance of our hearts our mouth doth speak, therefore; if we speak not the Wholesome Words of our Lord, Then our hearts are still wicked: But to advocate for wickedness instead of Christ, one has become a teacher of lawlessness, he then advocates for the man of sin: Many who have come out of
religion has done this,
as they went from one mountain top «from the extreme right» of self exaltation (
Religion) to the
other mountain top «to the extreme left» of the (Heathen) and missed the valley in - between that is takes to humble us: One extreme to the
other, and missed Jesus: Jesus is taking ones through the valley's to strip us down of all who we are before exalting us to be just
as He, even
as the Christ in us overcomes that man of sin (Adam) through theses valleys of contrast that cause a rending to happen within; and when we are rent in two, we stand on His word of truth, so we too can become one with Him, even
as Jesus is with our Father: This is how Christ is formed in us: Thank - you Father; in Jesus Name Alexandria
So, admittedly this is only a sample of 1 month, it does not look like
other religions are
as well represented
as some would like us to think.
However, it's woeful on most
other religions» scorecards
as well.
Specifically, the Commission on Religion and Public Life called for the number of bishops to be cut from 26 to 16, to allow clerics from
other major
religions in Britain to be represented,
as well as other strands of the Church currently which are excluded, such
as the Roman Catholic Church and Black - majority churches.
The God that Catholics believe in is the same God that Jews, Protestants, Muslims and Hindus believe in too (and
other religions as well).
In order to have faith, you must see past all of the silliness in the bible and take a leap of faith... in
other words, you must trun off your logic and reasoning portions of your mind and just believe...
well some of us can not do that, and see your
religion the saem
as all
other religions... man made and false.
Guiding Principles Religious and theological studies depend on and reinforce each
other; A principled approach to religious values and faith demands the intellectual rigor and openness of quality academic work; A
well - educated student of
religion must have a deep and broad understanding of more than a single religious tradition; Studying
religion requires that one understand one's own historical context
as well as that of those whom one studies; An exemplary scholarly and teaching community requires respect for and critical engagement with difference and diversity of all kinds.
Respect
other religions, and
as a message to extremist atheists that seem to have nothing
better to do then to make fun of my relgion, Let me tell you this, no trash you may say, to mocking will every break me away from god.
It's interesting to see how people will find their own truth, dig in their heals and be blind to any
other idea... What would Jesus do is an interesting question... I consider my self a Christian and a spiritualist... because I believe it's just not
as black and white
as one
religion or another thinks... there is way more grey area... but a fundamental truths that are a
good rule to live life by, wether you are christian or not... treat
others the way you want to be treated... do unto
others... I am my brothers keeper... all apply.
Michael «
As a gay man I appreciate there efforts and support, but I think putting up this sign isn't really the
best way to get through to people, all it does is create more hate, intolerance, and separation, I am not a christian but I am very spiritual, and putting up this sign implies that all gay people are atheists which is the furthest thing from the truth, I have no problem with
religion, I have a problem with those who use there
religions to control and hate
others, same applies with atheism, if you don't want to believe in anything than fine, just don't push your non beliefs on me.»
There is some things in the bible that has
good morals in it, but you can find those things in many
other cultures and
religions as well.
«
Well aware that the opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds; that Almighty God hath created the mind free, and manifested his supreme will that free it shall remain by making it altogether insusceptible of restraint; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments, or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, who being lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either, as was in his Almighty power to do, but to extend it by its influence on reason alone; that the impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and as such endeavoring to impose them on others, hath established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world and through all time.&ra
Well aware that the opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds; that Almighty God hath created the mind free, and manifested his supreme will that free it shall remain by making it altogether insusceptible of restraint; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments, or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the holy author of our
religion, who being lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either,
as was in his Almighty power to do, but to extend it by its influence on reason alone; that the impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil
as well as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and as such endeavoring to impose them on others, hath established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world and through all time.&ra
well as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the faith of
others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking
as the only true and infallible, and
as such endeavoring to impose them on
others, hath established and maintained false
religions over the greatest part of the world and through all time.»
All the
other religions of the world, past and present, were created by man
as well.
As to whether the television guide is a
good guide to the Times, the ten pounds of newsprint that Sunday had no
other reference to
religion other than a business story about selling palms to churches and an article in the Sunday magazine about a Catholic who has decided to become a Jew.
For the
OTHER religion fellow, you know who you are, Torah, see the above
as well.
Funny, Brian, that seems to be the underlying belief of several
other major
religions as well.
If you loook to the Quran to find parts where you believe they are told to kill non believers, then you have to look at the religious texts of
other religions as well.
On
other subjects — his true feelings toward his own father in particular, virtually the entirety of his youth in general
as well as his genuine feelings regarding
religion — he could be, and was, tighter than a clam.
@Bill Thanks for an intelligent post BUT you know
as well as I do that the dumb sh - its in this country won't vote for an atheist or agnostic or any
other religion besides a Christian.
As a gay man I appreciate there efforts and support, but I think putting up this sign isn't really the
best way to get through to people, all it does is create more hate, intolerance, and separation, I am not a christian but I am very spiritual, and putting up this sign implies that all gay people are atheists which is the furthest thing from the truth, I have no problem with
religion, I have a problem with those who use there
religions to control and hate
others, same applies with atheism, if you don't want to believe in anything than fine, just don't push your non beliefs on me.
Peace to you Reality and Guys for helping me to realize why you dispute
religions and not for disbelieving but for knowing that this is not what is reflected on earth towards each
other as you saw more hate among them than it is love and more wars among them than it is peace...?!? But surely what we are doing is not the right solution to correct this and to make them do what they should for
good deeds causes and not co-nspir-acy causes..
These are very tho - rny issues we're talking about — a tangled mess of bad intentions,
good intentions, misapplied intentions, and the whole range of psychological variations of mental illness, cognitive dissonance, and a bunch of
other things not really complimentary to
religions in general and to specific
religions as well.
She loved Jesus so deeply, but also embraced many
other religions as well.
Because of the close identification of Mary Daly and
other theologians with feminism, their new
religion appeals to many of the women students in the seminary,
as well as to some of the men.
The
best is perhaps a scientologist, or one of the
other religions that are against thinks such
as blood infusion, or medical services.
Actually,
other religions like to lob this at Catholicism e.g. «
good works» will save you
as if we are saying Christ's sacrifice did not happen.
The pompous distaste of sharing a god with another
religion, and the shock of seeing «one of their own» wearing the «
other's» religious garb
as well.
No it has not been proven where did you see that on an alien special on a & e, Read up on it those
other religions did not have Jesus
as a Savior and did not have men writing 1000s of years apart talking about the same events, and phrophecizing about things that happened in later chapters written hundreds of years later... and in no bok any where was there a man like Jesus, who spoke the words that Jesus spoke and died for people who hated Him like Jesus did, and spoke the parabales and life lessons like Jesus did... look at what Jesus spoke... read it nowhere has there been a
better teacher of life then in His words.
Nobody thought much of
religions other than Christianity;
as was obvious by our public school pledge — which admonished us all to be
good Christian citizens... Sure, I had questions too, but our church was pretty low - key so I was safe from some of the more radically - minded (read: brainwashed) of my peers.
If the Trinity is real, various truths in
other religions must be real
as well,
as these image bearers tune themselves to knowing God.
«Liberation theology issues a call not only to Christianity, but to the
other religions of the world
as well.
And I'm sure God is present in
other religions as well.
I am challenged by the questions
other religions ask,
as well.
The loss of biblical language in public rhetoric or in public education may have telling effect (Lincoln might be incomprehensible today) Sunday school and
other agencies of biblical education, where the texts can be restored and minds can
as well be re-stored, are neglected, signaling that citizens are not really serious when they ask for more
religion in the schools.
We need
religion to be eradicated so that we can all act rational
as well as humane towards each
other.
This is not quite the same
as answer number 2, because it suggests that for a given person, one
religion might be
better than the
others; but for different people with different histories and different needs, different
religions might be more appropriate.
The vast majority of Christians in the world today,
as well as those of
other religions, find their calling within this system.