Cutting Off the Offensive

[Fool]

If your religion causes you to offend, should you reconsider keeping it?


is your religion used for peacocking?


or offending others?

 

[whirlingmerc]

If your religion causes you to offend, should you reconsider keeping it?


is your religion used for peacocking?


or offending others?

Jesus said he was the scandelon, a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense
Being an offense for the right reason is not necessarily bad. Jesus was an offense to many

 

[Fool]

Jesus said he was the scandelon, a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense
Being an offense for the right reason is not necessarily bad. Jesus was an offense to many

a stumbling stone/block is something that leads to sin, not good.

Stumbling block - Wikipedia


Genesis 1:1 (KJV)

 

[Kenny]

If your religion causes you to offend, should you reconsider keeping it?


is your religion used for peacocking?


or offending others?

To many times, offenses are too arbitrary. Such as "you just offended me by your post".

 

[ManSinha]

If your religion causes you to offend, should you reconsider keeping it?


is your religion used for peacocking?


or offending others?

Could you clarify for those weak in english, please?

 

[Fool]

Could you clarify for those weak in english, please?

People who use their religion to harm others, or religion that inflates the believers ego to the point of being harmful, neglectful, disrespectful towards other, should they continue to follow that religion?

 

[Vinayaka]

Very often when someone is offended and they say it, the 'offender' argues that it wasn't offensive.

 

[ManSinha]

People who use their religion to harm others, or religion that inflates the believers ego to the point of being harmful, neglectful, disrespectful towards other, should they continue to follow that religion?

Thank you - but why should the person that is doing the instigating, if you will, see any need for change?

Very often when someone is offended and they say it, the 'offender' argues that it wasn't offensive.

Typical defense mechanism I suppose

 

[Falvlun]

If your religion causes you to offend, should you reconsider keeping it?


is your religion used for peacocking?


or offending others?

Causing Offense in and of itself isn’t bad.

Consider this:

You (maybe) believe that causing offense should make someone abandon their belief.

Your belief offends me because I believe that my beliefs are required by god regardless of whether they offend someone.

Should you now abandon your belief?

Some beliefs will be offensive but they are good. Think of civil rights. The idea that Africans should be treated equal to the white man offended many white people. But it was the right belief to have.

 

[74x12]

No one likes to be wakened from a good dream. But unfortunately the dream is only a pleasant illusion.