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Originally posted by Ugly Bastard:
One of the things I have noticed about those of us proclaiming to be Christians in this thread is, all of you assume that you and your beliefs are 100% correct, and that you must believe them to reach the more desireable afterlife. Can any of you prove that the terrorists who flew planes into the World Trade Centers aren't up in heaven right now with 7 virgins serving them? How do you know that each religion's promises do not come true for it's believers?
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UB, sometimes you make me proud to be your friend. The moment I read this post, was one of those times. Thank you for having the foresight to see that we don't
know the answers to these questions. So many religions seem to have the common characteristic of teaching people to be the good people they
know they can be. It's extremely possible and plausable that that's the whole reason we have religion. We don't know which religion is most correct, we don't know how tall god is, we don't know that we aren't just material beings without souls. That's the entire reason
beliefs exist. They're different for everyone because we are all different beings. There even seems to be a small percentage of people out there so afraid of death that in their attempt to find a safe exit out of this world they feel the need to convince everyone else around them that what they believe is true in order to feel even safer. I'm so fucking sick of listening to people rant and rave (not you guys specifically, for the most part most of you have been pretty decent) and use their time trying to prove why their reasonings are "more" right than someone else's instead of being real compassionate human beings and respecting each other's opinions and true individual worth.
So much good could come of that.
So many gods, so many creeds.
So many paths that wind and wind.
While just the art of being kind,
Is all this sad world needs.
-Ella Wheeler Wilcox
[ December 16, 2003, 04:23 PM: Message edited by: Titan ]