Trip Bapho
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Oh ok. Very cool.To use an example of particular significance for Americans, Scientology.
But also Heaven's Gate. Aum Shinrikyo. Rajneesh's Oregon Comune. Kardecist Spiritism. Islaam. Prosperity Theology.
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Oh ok. Very cool.To use an example of particular significance for Americans, Scientology.
But also Heaven's Gate. Aum Shinrikyo. Rajneesh's Oregon Comune. Kardecist Spiritism. Islaam. Prosperity Theology.
Just as much as religion brings people together it separates them.
(My Experience Only)
I was raised in a Christian family in Texas. My grandfather is certain this world will end in a fight against Muslims. My fiance was born in Saudi Arabia w/ a grandfather who thinks this world will end in a battle against Christians.
Is religion good bc it brings comfort? -Or- Is it bad bc it brings separation?
Saudi Arabia
Sounds horrible.As a Muslim, if I lived there I'd be killed by them
Sounds horrible.
That's insane. So, you being Muslim why is it exactly that you'd be killed?It is. They're (their government) militant puritans, the ideology they espouse (Wahhabism) is behind most terrorism. They're kind of a cow that the US are still milking though. They don't want to admit that they are a recent invention though (three centuries old), lol.
That's insane. So, you being Muslim why is it exactly that you'd be killed?
They're puritans who believe that traditional Sunnis and Shia's (like me) are practicing the wrong religion, basically - and want us to convert to their f**cked up cult. They emerged from a stream of thought within Sunnism around the end of the medieval period, were the view slowly perpetuated that traditional Sunnis and Shia's are idol worshipers and that we've softened. The Wabbahi ideology itself was formed by Ibn Abd al-Wahhab.
They see themselves in responsibility to force people to accept their literalist, fundimentalist version of Islam (with lots of idealism towards the early Sunnis who killed the family of the prophet Muhammad).
A Shia is a direct target to these people because we believe in a succession through the family of the prophet, which has mystical (and metaphysical, to an extent) elements, we emphasize the esoteric (the inner, hidden) element of the scripture (that westerners tend to deny even exists ), not the outer (this is also an aspect of what separates us from regular Sunnis)
Essentially, we're heretics to them like any other religion that sets foot in their country. Sadly they have political control over our sacred city of Mecca and are committing all kinds of atrocities in the name of "Islam" for the world to see.
I'd tell em but he's actually dead. & IMO ignorance is to defend religion.
You pick the two most intolerant religions, Christianity and Islam?
Better question? Better?
GotchaPerhaps I should of said "a more useful question".
Like everything in life its got bad and good.Just as much as religion brings people together it separates them.
(My Experience Only)
I was raised in a Christian family in Texas. My grandfather is certain this world will end in a fight against Muslims. My fiance was born in Saudi Arabia w/ a grandfather who thinks this world will end in a battle against Christians.
Is religion good bc it brings comfort? -Or- Is it bad bc it brings separation?
Philosophy that unites is a religion. Philosophy that divides is a cult.But doesn't religion still mean I am this and you are that? Shouldn't we both just be of the same?