What I like about other religions

Alex P said:
WOW! That is so awsome lol! Really, I like that I see a work in progess, you know? There back then I am like NO WAI! Then when this thread started I was all like.... ORLY? And now... I am like.... YA RLY!!!

That will go down in 1337 history that speech, and for those in English:

It is great to see, what we can acomplish, but it aslo shows me hope.. That things can get better, to go from then in a very anti negative closed off way, I am defensive... Yet also offensive... Heh... I then go to a neutral stance, and then to an open.. I am really glad you brought that up! I was looking back on all the 17th posts/threads and watching from the very first day how I seem to have got better and learnt more... Do that SG... Look back from your very first post, and realise how much you have grown....
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I'm still a button pusher! :eek:
http://www.comparative-religion.com/forum/what-is-the-sound-of-3372.html
 
Buddhism: basically everything

Islam: seems very practical and dedicated

Quakers: simplicity and rejection of dogma

Hinduism: huge diversity, nonviolence

Paganism: harmony with nature

(LaVeyan) Satanism: a "devil's advocate" (hardee har) to mainstream thinking
 
Dah-veeth said:
:D

Islam - the Qur'an, especially where it says, "Let there be no compulsion in religion."

Christianity - the Beatitudes, blessed are the meek, etc.

Judaism - the Ten Commandments, the Book of Micah, etc.

Zoroastrianism - Naw-Ruz!

Buddhism - detachment

Hinduism - Krishna!
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I'm quoting myself so I'll come up with some more/different reasons....

Islam - seven heavens

Christianity - parables in the Gospels

Judaism - Zohar, the Book of Splendour

Zoroastrianism - good thoughts, good deeds, good um... there were three, right?

Buddhism - the eightfold path

Hinduism - openness to other religions

 
islam: nothing

hinduism: nice and colourful, shaktipat, gurus, hashish

buddhism: nothing

christianity: Jesus, Salvation, the Truth, Miracles, Holy Spirit, Impartation, Prophecy, Healing, Slain in the Spirit, speakinging tongues "#!*"£&&!@~" , baptism, holy spirit baptism etc

paganism: fury goat legs and horns

satanism: for so being so radical

jws: my Grandfather

atheism: well its good for a laugh

New Age: for its freedom of thought
 
Re: What I like about other religions
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Absolutely Nothing, except for the community baptists do know how to put on the BEST halloween and harvest parties I have ever been to.
 
All other religions: They provide hope and guidance in people's journey to finding their better nature.

I have reason to like them all.

I have reason to respect them all.

I have reason to honor them all.
 
citizenzen said:
All other religions: They provide hope and guidance in people's journey to finding their better nature.

I have reason to like them all.

I have reason to respect them all.

I have reason to honor them all.
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does that mean you believe in what they all say to believe in? like muslims killing people just for being gay?
 
Bandit said:
does that mean you believe in what they all say to believe in? like muslims killing people just for being gay?
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Many things I have heard from Muslims are quite sublime. I have never heard one say that their religion advocates death to gays.

I would however find that aspect disagreeable, if it is indeed one of their beliefs.

But somehow... I doubt that it is.
 
citizenzen said:
Many things I have heard from Muslims are quite sublime. I have never heard one say that their religion advocates death to gays.

I would however find that aspect disagreeable, if it is indeed one of their beliefs.

But somehow... I doubt that it is.
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Then you should watch the news more often because that religion does in fact hang gay people if their leaders find out. It was just two years ago Iran hung two boys under 16 years old because the religion says so. I have not watched to hear if they have done any more recently. So what about the excommunicating of those in the catholic religion for someone having an abortion? does that also bring honor & guidance to peoples journey?
 
Alex P said:
You know, I looked at this thread when it came out first of all... And I asked myself to answer honestly from the heart....
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I might have said the same thing as you 5 years ago. I had to answer honestly from the heart as well.
 
Bandit said:
So what about the excommunicating of those in the catholic religion for someone having an abortion? does that also bring honor & guidance to peoples journey?
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Judging from your outlook one would wonder how Islam and Catholicism have any members at all.

And yet they do.

And most of their followers lead good lives.

You seem to discount that.
 
citizenzen said:
Judging from your outlook one would wonder how Islam and Catholicism have any members at all.

And yet they do.

And most of their followers lead good lives.

You seem to discount that.
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That is because they are told to believe it or else go to hell at a very young age.
 
citizenzen said:
I've discarded many things told to me at a young age.

Most people do.
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Most people dont. They tell the same thing to their kids that they were told, that is how they keep the religion going.

So why dont you join the religions if you like them all? Or you just like them even if you don't believe in them? I could never like something that I don't believe is true.
 
Bandit said:
So why dont you join the religions if you like them all? Or you just like them even if you don't believe in them? I could never like something that I don't believe is true.
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You seem to dislike many things.
 
citizenzen said:
You seem to dislike many things.
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That is what you said about me, not what I said or asked you.

I did not say I dislike many things and that does not answer the question.

This is what I said:
Most people dont. They tell the same thing to their kids that they were told, that is how they keep the religion going.

So why dont you join the religions if you like them all? Or you just like them even if you don't believe in them? I could never like something that I don't believe is true.
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Bandit said:
So why dont you join the religions if you like them all? Or you just like them even if you don't believe in them? I could never like something that I don't believe is true.
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One of the beautiful things about IO is to be exposed to so many different religions and to find that within these different views exist points of commonality. These commonalities demonstrate to me that all of these religions point to the same thing and lead their practitioners to the same end: God, Allah, Nirvana, etc.

If they all lead to the same end there's no need to join them all. That sounds frankly rather counter-productive, like traveling down the freeway by leaping from one speeding car to another. The path is difficult enough. I will sit contently in the (relative) safety of the car I'm already in.

As for liking something that I don't believe is true...

I separate the core religious belief from the cultural baggage that gets piled on over time. It's too easy to be distracted by these superfluous details, to find reasons to squabble over issues arising from political and institutional power-mongering and not the original inspiration from which the faith was born.

When viewed without this baggage these religions show themselves to be remarkably similar, focusing on wisdom and compassion, and all quite likable.
 
citizenzen said:
One of the beautiful things about IO is to be exposed to so many different religions and to find that within these different views exist points of commonality. These commonalities demonstrate to me that all of these religions point to the same thing and lead their practitioners to the same end: God, Allah, Nirvana, etc.
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Nonsense. All it says is we are all people and that many never grow out of wanting to believe in fairy tales. The religions are superfluities.
 
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