spiritual senses and religion are two very different things, religions try to sell spirituality to the
public, thinking they own that part of life, not true, religions are just like any corporation trying
to gather as many clients and money as they can.
Point to you for this.
Have you ever heard Bishop Spong?
Canada could use a few like him. Here he speak to spirituality as compared to religiosity.
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DL
This is why I say we should encourage education and critical thinking.
Absolutely and I think we should also encourage religionist adults to do the same by questioning them about the poor morality they follow thanks to their church. That and the double moral standard the have to adopt to forgive their God for what they condemn men for doing.
I.E. This chap shows an example of this.
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DL
You cannot remove God's religion; because it is a matter of guidance.
In other words: God has misguided you, but He guides others, and God is only giving you respite so that the transgression of atheists is exposed to people in general; and God Himself will eradicate the atheism and idolatry with its many forms of joining others with God Most Gracious.
So how is it a matter of guidance and misguidance?
You say that your religion and God guides you.
Christianity and Islam, two of the Abrahamic cults, have been the majority in the world for many years yet war has been a staple of the world for all of the time you have been the majority. Add in the fact of your institutionalized homophobias an d misogyny and any non-brainwashed and intelligent mind will see just how harmful the Abrahamic cults, Christianity and Islam have been to the world.
Only really foolish and unintelligent people will even attempt to deny this.
Sure, as I stated in the O.P., religions have some good points, but overall, the bad is way ahead of the good.
Islam should ask the approximate 5,000 women who die from Honor killings yearly if they would agree with me or not.
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DL
Religious folks who hold your interpretation of the Bible can definitely be using the Bible to promote misogyny, but it's hardly a mainstream interpretation. Instead, it's an interpretation that takes little snippets here and there out of context to try and promote bigotry. Similarly, some folks have used secular concepts such as Darwinism to promote racism and genocide, which are also out of context attempts at promoting bigotry.
The key to reducing bigotry is to actually address bigotry itself, and not by addressing some sort of overarching social, cultural, or religious dynamic that is perceived to have some sort of loose correlation with bigotry. To do so is bigotry itself because it negatively stereotypes and generalizes large groups of people.
Open your eyes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqN8EYIIR3g&feature=related
Please read what I put above as well.
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DL
Guidance and misguidance
God guides whomever He wants to guide; God only knows who deserves the guidance, and so He will guide him, in order to reward him in Paradise in heaven.
You cannot guide anyone even if you like him and you are earnest to bring him to God's religion: that God is One without associate or son and to believe in all the messengers or apostles of God including Jesus and Mohammed, and to believe in the Next Life.
(Quran 10: 100. No soul can believe [according to your will, Mohammed], but only according to God's leave [to His angels to inspire him e.]
And He lays [psychological] illness on those who do not use their reason [but they hold fast with the traditions of their fathers.]
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e It means: God gives permission to His angels to let him long to the belief, and make him desire in it, by means of inspiring into him, so that he will believe and convert.
On the other hand, those who do not deserve the guidance, because of their wrong-doing, God will leave them to Satan and his devils to suggest to them and take control of them, and they being unaware, so that they will increase in error and misguidance, and die as unbelievers and go to Hell in the Next Life.
I thought that Muslims respected Jesus.
Did he not say that he came for the ill and not those who were well?
Here you have God coming for the well and leaving the ill to Satan.
You might want to rethink. But move your head out of your God's *** to do so clearly.
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DL
They are two groups; see to which group you belong.
Who are you to say how many groups there are?
When God died, did he make you God?
"Whoever imagines himself a favorite with God,
holds other people in contempt.
Whenever a man believes that he has the exact truth from God,
there is in that man no spirit of compromise.
He has not the modesty born of the imperfections of human nature;
he has the arrogance of theological certainty and the tyranny born of ignorant assurance.
Believing himself to be the slave of God,
he imitates his master,
and of all tyrants,
the worst is a slave in power."
--Robert Ingersoll
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DL
naw be a kid as long as you can
11 When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. 12 For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known.
I loved to get on the floor with my children and now with my grandchildren but eventually someone in the house has to take responsibility for the chores and hard work and children are not ready for responsible thought and actions.
Way too many religious people base their poor morality on imaginary constructs and that is why religious morality is so poor.
Those who have grown up can see that clearly.
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DL
Yes, and good luck with that.
It is hard but not hopeless.
There are more and more Ex Christians and Ex Muslims who have freed themselves from their homophobic and misogynous masters.
Think of your mother, wife and daughters and how your religion has made them second class citizens and you too might seek enlightenment and freedom from your owner.
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DL
