Religion
Related: About this forumSo, in Sri Lanka, some people bombed some churches and hotels.
Somewhere else, someone attacked a mosque. In another place, a synagogue was attacked. All in the name of one religion or another, or in the name of hatred of someone else's religion. In yet another, some person of faith attacked a church because he or she didn't like the color of its membership. All of that is some weird shit, it seems to me.
Why? Who cares what religion someone else follows? Why would that matter to anyone?
Some say that religion, in general, is beneficial to society. Yet, again and again, people attack religions other than their own. Why is that?
Religious groups also sometimes meddle with governments, too. To what end? Does their deity require such action? Governments generally don't like such meddling, and might interfere with your religious beliefs if you do that. So, don't do that. I mean, it's simple, really.
Are people's religious beliefs so weak that they need to attack people that believe something else? What possible sense does that make?
Even if you have no religious beliefs at all, someone who does might attack you.
More evidence that religions are creations of human thought. Nothing else makes sense. Humans attack each other, and always have. Wouldn't you think an all-powerful deity would put a stop to that sort of nonsense?
Oh, well...
Rocky888
(297 posts)Are the humans who use it for their own need for power, greed and most immoral self aggrandizement.
It has become impossible for me to understand how millions here in America are willing or not understand that the religious right has used you to hate while they have destabilized the financial security of every middle working class person in America in the name of god and hate for people south of the border whos countries the religious right helped destabilize.
Thanks for letting me rant.
MineralMan
(147,334 posts)PoindexterOglethorpe
(26,576 posts)At the core of the three major monotheistic religions (and I simply don't know enough about non-monotheistic religions to say anything sensible) is loving, honoring, and respecting others. Also they all have stuff about helping others less fortunate.
However, the core message is all too often lost in the sense that one specific narrow view of "God" is the only one that is correct and therefore it is just fine to not only disrespect other beliefs, but to actively cause harm to those who hold them.
If the bombings today in Sri Lanka were done in the name of a religion, those religious leaders need to step up and loudly say how wrong it is. Perhaps that has already happened and I'm just not following this story closely enough to know.
Karadeniz
(23,343 posts)Talking About Heaven Aint A-going There. That sums it up!