Muslim

[loseyourname]

By the way, I'm pretty sure that the purpose of a religion is to give one incentive to be a good person. One should not need such an incentive. Goodness is good for its own sake.

[DvlzAdvocate]

Thanx Flames! But again I ask...What is Zoroastrianism?

Inna, how do you know your friend is aware or not? Maybe she doesn't know, there are a lot of christians that don't know much about the bible and christian traditions. I am sure there are many Muslims that don't know either.

[Inna]

Thanx Flames! But again I ask...What is Zoroastrianism?

Inna, how do you know your friend is aware or not? Maybe she doesn't know, there are a lot of christians that don't know much about the bible and christian traditions. I am sure there are many Muslims that don't know either.

that is true..but she is very religious in her religion and she knows a lot about it...but of course she wasnt the only person I asked...I've met other Muslims and those who have actually studied the Koran and they've all told me the same thing....it is a HUGE misinterpretation...besides if they truly believe this, would these Muslims that I know be my friends?? wouldnt they want to kill me instead??

[Inna]

the thing is..people often mistake politics with religion...that's where the mistake is..b/c the two are completely different

[DvlzAdvocate]

True, however I still have my doubts...what if it is a cover-up? and those friends of yours can be decent people that are covering-up something they think is obcene! I just believe the whole concept of "You never know" But I can be wrong it can be a false inquiry.

[loseyourname]

God also told the Isrealites to commit genocide on the native inhabitants of the land of Canaan. Murder sanctioned by God is not unique to Islam.

[Anonymouse]

Remember what William Bramley said.

[Ducati]

let me get this straight....

there is a god...
there is a jesus...
god sends jesus to die..
jesus is gods son...
who here would send their son to be killed like jesus...

now whos religion doesnt make sense...there is a flip side to every coin..

im not a religious person, dont know if u can tell yet...

[spiral]

I’m not very religious… I’m not religious at all, however, If I had a choice, I would choose to be religious, I would want to have something or someone to believe in. Religion or “God” serves as a succor to/for people, and that is why those who believe, believe. Because it gives them comfort, it gives them reason, and most importantly it gives them someone who listens. This instills in people a desire to believe simply because of the satisfaction they will receive in return, even if this “God” asks them for things that are not so “good”, these things will automatically convert into “good”, or “good” intensions, because this God “said” so. And as long as this “God” offers this comfort, sacrifices will not seem so callous.

It’s sort of like “Ignorance is bliss”. Not that I am implying that religious people are ignorant, I’m simply saying that to believe is ‘bliss’ even if what you believe in does not really exist outside of you, it comforts you, and it helps you, and that’s all that matters.


As far as how I feel towards religion- I can’t whole-heartedly believe in something or someone, who I have not seen, or felt. And even If I had seen or felt, I could not instill my complete devotion, and faith into anything, or anyone other than myself.

During my christening, I was pretty old, about 10 and while the priest was talking, (I couldn’t understand half the things he was saying, cuz they sing while they talk) But One thing that stood out to me was that he said something like “You shall love God(or Jesus was it?) more than your mother and father” and I remember thinking at that moment, --I can’t do that-- and I actually began to worry, cuz I was told by this “holly priest” that that’s how I’m supposed to feel. And that’s probably when I began to doubt this “God” because I figured, if he was so “good” he wouldn’t demand such a thing.



Reminds me of this too_ I always loved this quote.

“When I was young I had an elderly friend who used often to ask me to stay with him in the country. He was a religious man and he read prayers to the assembled household every morning. But he had crossed out in pencil all the passages that praised God. He said that there was nothing so vulgar as to praise people to their faces and, himself a gentleman, he could not believe that God was so ungentlemanly as to like it.”
Maugham_

[sSsflamesSs]

Wow, spiral, that's by far your longest post.

I just wanted to say that I enjoyed it, and I can relate.

What I can't understand is how it never occurs to the masses to question certain things.