PacDude
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Look at all that stink over that Danish cartoon caricature that is pissing off the Muslims. I mean I've got to say that while that cartoon may have been in bad taste, the Muslim reaction to it has told me leaps and bounds more about their religion and beliefs than anything else (and I'm not neccessrily talking about what their religion ACTUALLY might say, but rather how many of the followers BEHAVE, which says more about them than any book).
I'm sorry, but anyone that wants to KILL someone over a fucking cartoon has got some serious problems and if they're telling me that's their religion that DEMANDS they kill someone for expresing themselves, well who made them judge, jury and executioner? What makes them think they're right and someone else is wrong? Why doesn't God kill these people if He wants them dead so bad? No one asks WHY in religion and that's why religion is not the same as spirituality.
Religions are things made up by man to try and define God to appear like themselves because this is the only way they think they can relate to him. Spiritual truth is knowing that God has greater capacity for love and forgiveness than you could ever hope to imagine. YOU are the one letting him down and yet he still loves you. THAT takes some serious love. It's much easier to hate those that hate you than to love them anyway.
This is a prime example of why people are in this world in the first place. They are children that can't get along and play nice and so they are in a dark place FAR REMOVED from God.
You know the basis of most world religions is to love one another, but somehow, some way that BASIC message gets distorted and people end up HATING and KILLING each other over petty disagreements.
Spiritual Darkness is HELL. I've got news for you folks. THIS WORLD *IS* HELL for most people. We are in spiritual darkness and FAR from God here. God lets you do whatever you want here and yet his basic message of love is not far away. You want to know why such evil is allowed here? Look in yourself and see the darkness within! YOU CREATE HELL. You create it here. You will create it when your body is dead. Hell is spiritual darkness. If you are light inside, you are not in hell. If you are dark, you are hell.
Oh wait, you didn't read this in some book that is over 1000 years old so it must be BS! Why is one book correct and the others wrong? What makes people think something like the King James Bible is correct and accurate or even LITERAL? Is it because YOU believe it or is it because at some point in your life SOMEONE *TOLD* you to believe it???
You know if people in this world would actually stand back for a moment and actually CONTEMPLATE that for moment and REALLY consider it instead of just blindly dismissing it because they're afraid they'll burn in hell if they don't, this world would be a LOT better off....
I'm a firm believer in God. But believing in God is one thing. Forcing others to believe what YOU believe at any cost is quite another. The very idea is crazy. If God was so concerned that people believe correctly, wouldn't He make sure that the truth was known to one and all? If not, why not? No one in any religious organization asks that one most important of all questions. WHY?
MOST religions have this problem because most people in those religions can't even CONTEMPLATE let alone actually consider the fact they might just be WRONG in their beliefs. SO WHAT IF YOU'RE WRONG? If you think God is going to send you to some "hell" like dimension because you were taught the wrong thing or believed the wrong thing, you have got some serious psychological problems to work out. This is why when people talk about cults, they talk about brainwashing because they're telling people what and how to think. They don't want people thinking for themselves....
What bothers me is how this world once again seems to be turning more and more towards spirtual myopia. The one thing the U.S. initially got right was its freedom of religion. That means you are FREE to think for yourself and not have someone else TELL you what to think or believe. Yet the so-called "right wing" or "fundamentalist" views in this country are becoming just as dangerous as fundamentalist type views in the Middle East or elsewhere. They're both based on the same idea that OUR VIEW is the RIGHT one and there can be NO ARGUMENT about it. It's the same view the Catholic Church held in the Dark (Middle) Ages and it's the same one that is starting to take root all over again in the 21st Century. It shows we haven't learned a thing in the past 2000+ years. History is repeating itself again and again and this time there are weapons of mass destruction to worry about being used in some kind of "holy war".
It's pathetic. It's just plain pathetic. Honestly, I don't know how such propoganda finds so many followers. The heads of churches (of most religions) have traditionally always been the ones sucking up the wealth, living the good life and telling OTHER people to go martyr themselves while they live it up in some palace somewhere and yet those blind followers just can't see what's right in front of their faces. It's POLITICAL, not SPIRITUAL people! Wake Up! You are dead spiritually. Come back to life!
I'm sorry, but anyone that wants to KILL someone over a fucking cartoon has got some serious problems and if they're telling me that's their religion that DEMANDS they kill someone for expresing themselves, well who made them judge, jury and executioner? What makes them think they're right and someone else is wrong? Why doesn't God kill these people if He wants them dead so bad? No one asks WHY in religion and that's why religion is not the same as spirituality.
Religions are things made up by man to try and define God to appear like themselves because this is the only way they think they can relate to him. Spiritual truth is knowing that God has greater capacity for love and forgiveness than you could ever hope to imagine. YOU are the one letting him down and yet he still loves you. THAT takes some serious love. It's much easier to hate those that hate you than to love them anyway.
This is a prime example of why people are in this world in the first place. They are children that can't get along and play nice and so they are in a dark place FAR REMOVED from God.
You know the basis of most world religions is to love one another, but somehow, some way that BASIC message gets distorted and people end up HATING and KILLING each other over petty disagreements.
Spiritual Darkness is HELL. I've got news for you folks. THIS WORLD *IS* HELL for most people. We are in spiritual darkness and FAR from God here. God lets you do whatever you want here and yet his basic message of love is not far away. You want to know why such evil is allowed here? Look in yourself and see the darkness within! YOU CREATE HELL. You create it here. You will create it when your body is dead. Hell is spiritual darkness. If you are light inside, you are not in hell. If you are dark, you are hell.
Oh wait, you didn't read this in some book that is over 1000 years old so it must be BS! Why is one book correct and the others wrong? What makes people think something like the King James Bible is correct and accurate or even LITERAL? Is it because YOU believe it or is it because at some point in your life SOMEONE *TOLD* you to believe it???
You know if people in this world would actually stand back for a moment and actually CONTEMPLATE that for moment and REALLY consider it instead of just blindly dismissing it because they're afraid they'll burn in hell if they don't, this world would be a LOT better off....
I'm a firm believer in God. But believing in God is one thing. Forcing others to believe what YOU believe at any cost is quite another. The very idea is crazy. If God was so concerned that people believe correctly, wouldn't He make sure that the truth was known to one and all? If not, why not? No one in any religious organization asks that one most important of all questions. WHY?
MOST religions have this problem because most people in those religions can't even CONTEMPLATE let alone actually consider the fact they might just be WRONG in their beliefs. SO WHAT IF YOU'RE WRONG? If you think God is going to send you to some "hell" like dimension because you were taught the wrong thing or believed the wrong thing, you have got some serious psychological problems to work out. This is why when people talk about cults, they talk about brainwashing because they're telling people what and how to think. They don't want people thinking for themselves....
What bothers me is how this world once again seems to be turning more and more towards spirtual myopia. The one thing the U.S. initially got right was its freedom of religion. That means you are FREE to think for yourself and not have someone else TELL you what to think or believe. Yet the so-called "right wing" or "fundamentalist" views in this country are becoming just as dangerous as fundamentalist type views in the Middle East or elsewhere. They're both based on the same idea that OUR VIEW is the RIGHT one and there can be NO ARGUMENT about it. It's the same view the Catholic Church held in the Dark (Middle) Ages and it's the same one that is starting to take root all over again in the 21st Century. It shows we haven't learned a thing in the past 2000+ years. History is repeating itself again and again and this time there are weapons of mass destruction to worry about being used in some kind of "holy war".
It's pathetic. It's just plain pathetic. Honestly, I don't know how such propoganda finds so many followers. The heads of churches (of most religions) have traditionally always been the ones sucking up the wealth, living the good life and telling OTHER people to go martyr themselves while they live it up in some palace somewhere and yet those blind followers just can't see what's right in front of their faces. It's POLITICAL, not SPIRITUAL people! Wake Up! You are dead spiritually. Come back to life!