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i believe that people misunderstand sometimes. all religions and manifestations are from ONE GOD, so then they all the the SAME message, but they just come at different times with different teachings. i know that one day, religions will exist peacefully, i believe that. PEACE.
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Not as long as there is judgement instead of acceptance. That is the reason I have no respect for religions as they are now. I have no problem with where you choose to worship or how, I do have problem with your judgement of me and claiming that the bible is god's word when it is really the writings of man. Your decision that I am a sinner because I am different is not very god-like. If we are all made by god, then I am no mistake and I am no threat to you. I accept that you have your belief system which may be different from mine, but do not accuse me of anything wrong when I live in peace and respect of others and of the earth.
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I think people should be able to respect others' beliefs, even if they don't agree with them.
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If mankind is to avoid annilation, they must.....there is only ONE Religion which unfolds in every age but followers get in an " arrested development" fixation and cannot progress to the next page....eg. whether one says "Jehoveh", "Buddha", "Mohammed", "Jesus", "Baha'u'llah" etc, they are referring the the Messengers from the ONE God as He , from our inception, has sent His Love to us in the human form of a perfect Representative. Each has expressed the essence of the Golden Rule.
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No, because people kinda suck and we screw things up and get irrational about things in which we care deeply about and people don't like to agree to disagree they like to be right.
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Anyone who thinks religions cannot exist peacefully has never read the Baha'i writings and the teachings of Baha'u'llah.
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I think the problem is the everyone thinks that they are right, and want everyone else to believe what they believe.
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They can and at one point in history they did. Pre Crusades, Muslims, Jews and Christians lived amongst each other in peace in certain parts of the world. After the Crusades ( in which Europeans went to the middle east to spread their version of christianity) all that changed and has been going down hill ever sense. Unfortunately its to much ignorance in the world now that most people don't realize that they all believe that there is only one God and that different groups and cultures have a way of practicing it.
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Religions have no problem coexisting. Those darn followers are the problem. Always have been.
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@braxtonrob @hittingthesingularity @TutherBrother @SoG OoOoOoOoKkKk... So, looks like I started a fire I didn't even mean to. Sorry! Firstly, @braxtonrob 's response is wholly ignorant, inflammatory and mistaken. I'll just say this: I didn't ever blame anything on religion. EVER. I'm not trying to argue that religion is the cause of "all the bad deeds in the world" at all (it's clearly not). You're being incredibly rude and presumptuous. I've been studying comparative religion for years, have many religious friends (of different denominations) and respect them all. You, sir, are the one who is speaking blatantly, I've said nothing controversial and have intentionally insulted no one. Real quickly, here are a few quotes I dug up haphazardly to illustrate my point: OLD TESTAMENT: "When the LORD your God brings you into the land where you are entering to possess it, and clears away many nations before you, the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and stronger than you. And when the LORD your God delivers them before you and you defeat them, then you shall utterly destroy them. You shall make no covenant with them and show no favor to them." (Deuteronomy 7:1-2) “I will send my fear before thee, and will destroy all the people to whom thou shalt come, and I will make all thine enemies turn their backs unto thee.” (Exodus 23:27) "And he should go and worship other gods and bow down to them or to the sun or the moon or all the army of the heavens, ...and you must stone such one with stones and such one must die." (Deuteronomy 17:3-5) KORAN: "Whoever changed his Islamic religion, then kill him.'" (Bukhari 84:57) “I will instill terror into the hearts of the Unbelievers: smite ye above their necks and smite all their finger-tips off them.” (Sura 8:12) “Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah, and those who are with him are ruthless to the Unbelievers, but merciful to each other.” (Sura 48:29) [Allah's Apostle said] "The Hour will not be established until you fight with the Jews, and the stone behind which a Jew will be hiding will say. "O Muslim! There is a Jew hiding behind me, so kill him." (Bukhari 52:256) Alright, so all I'm trying to point out is that there is a bit of a disconnect between the "Religion is love and harmony" view and the reality of the matter. Again, I'm not saying it's all bad. Obviously, there's a ton of great morals from Jesus and the like that even an atheist can appreciate. I believe it a mistake, however, to not acknowledge these other messages often hiding in very plain view. A note to the Christian: the most popular method of apology for Old Testament violence and hate is to say that it was simply retelling historical events that aren't relevant to the modern Christian. This is fairly reasonable but lacks perspective. Most of the historical events listed in the Bible didn't even happen. This leads one to believe that they were constructed as parable to teach a lesson (obedience/piety in Noah's Ark, faith in Job, etc.). If we take this line, however, what is the lesson to be learned? That's where you run into problems. The Koran is a lot harder to defend... The historical context argument is difficult to mount with such passages as above. "If you see a Jew, kill him" (not a quote) seems pretty cut and dry to me. Anyone caring to mount a defense of Islam, please do so. I have Muslim friends you are perfectly reasonable, non-violence, intelligent and fun. They do the same thing Christians do when they just willfully ignore certain teachings of their prophet. Do they apologize? Nope. But they acknowledge the words are in there and that the message (at least for the people it was originally intended) wasn't wholly peaceful I would appreciate the discontinuing of insulting remarks against my character and intellect when I'm simply providing a view w/evidence
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Well, considering that all religions teach love and unity, I'm pretty sure it's gonna happen one of these days.
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Since there is only one religeon, really, the religeon of God, then it completely makes sense that religeons should get along. In fact, i think that most people in the world don't want to kill other people just because they are a different religeon. It's only a few fanatics who are extremely misguided that want to kill for what they say is religeon. But really, it is greed that they are really motivated by, or else they are misguided by someone else who is using greed. I seriously doubt there is anyone who actually tries to follow their religeon to the best of their extent and would cause a war.
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No, no, no, not ever, nunca, nil, no. Religious groups were fundamentally formed as just that: groups. The idea that they could get along (or in some cases even accept each other's existence) without all being in the same group seems counterintuitive to the extreme.
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I also apologize if anyone finds the drawing blasphemous. You can only do so much with Microsoft Paint.
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