Thoughts 3/02/2006 March 2, 2006
Posted by Kelsey Martineau in Religion.Tags: Religion
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Why do people’s religious views so greatly affect how they act? Now don’t get me wrong, I realize that whatever we believe in should have some type effect on us, but not to the extreme of becoming a jerk about things. I know people that are just rude, and it’s almost like a religious “arrogance,” for lack of a better term. So what causes this? Blind faith maybe? To me blind faith is a bad thing. I personally think that studies should be done on multiple religions, and we should find the answer without just taking for granted what our parents have taught us.
I sometimes question why Christianity should be labeled as “right” and everyone else is, from a Christian’s point of view, going to hell. I’ve always wondered how that works. What about Jews? They only believe the Old Testament. They don’t believe Jesus was the son of God. But, as anyone with even a little biblical knowledge knows, to get into heaven, you must believe in Jesus.
It kind of sickens me where the world is going with religion, and the labels that a lot of religions are receiving. Ok, so that brings us to a question. Is it right or wrong to take the Ten Commandments down from a public place, just as what was discussed about a year ago in Alabama? I can kind of see both sides on this. On one hand, this nation was founded on. Then, some would claim though, that our nation was founded on “freedom of religion,” Well that is true, however, our forefathers intended that to mean freedom on forms of Christianity, not necessarily any religion. However, that has been overlooked over the years. But I ask myself, if I were taught from birth to worship Buddha, or cows, or the moon, how would I know better? If that were the case, from my point of view, I would be right and Christians would be wrong.
Someone I once knew said something that I despised. She said, “Everyone in America should be forced to be a Conservative Christian.” Ok, give me a break. That’s going a little extreme is it not? Simply because that’s the way she believed. I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again; people’s views are narrow, dogmatic views, unwilling to look outside the box. That’s the problem with our world.
A big problem I find is that the narrowest minds belong to people who don’t travel. If people got off their backsides and visited other countries and their cultures we’d have a lot more understanding in this world.
Why is it that anyone who has certain religious views on things are lebeled fanatics by you? Are people not allowed to have beliefs different from your own? I wouldn’t be so quick to call others fanatics when YOU are the one actually being fanatical about those supposed “fanatics” and “fanatical views”
So what you’re saying is, I’m a fanatic about fanatical fanatics?
Awesome.
Pwned
Sometimes we have to just stop worrying, stop wondering, and just believe. That’s not so hard, is it?
Wow. Why is it all that all the Religious topics seem to draw all the attention. You can kind of take “Transparent One’s” comment to go right along with what I said;
“I know people that are just rude, and it’s almost like a religious “arrogance,” for lack of a better term.”
My point exactly. To answer your question, “Are people not allowed to have beliefs different from your own?”Yes they are, I don’t mind a bit, my point is I just get kind of fed up with it. Don’t get me wrong, I am a Christian, and I believe in Jesus. I know that I am going to heaven; I mean there is no question in my mind about it. I don’t dislike the fanatics really, maybe I said it wrong; I dislike the people that label me as someone that isn’t religious, just because I don’t live by their standards, and the bible even talks about that in Romans.
So to clarify, I am not anti-Christian. I am not by any means saying I doubt in the existence of God here, and if I gave off that vibe, my apologies.
Kelsey
fascinating!!!
So much time is spent dealing with the surface Christian equation that we fail to grow intellectually enough to fathom the gretaer scheme of things. Why are we groping in the dark ages of the past when a glorious future awaits us, a future that ‘Christ’ Himself assured, that we would accomplish even greater things than He.
‘…even to them gave He the power to become sons of God’
we are sons of God in the making, and don’t anybody ever forget that!