What do you admire about a DIFFERENT religion?

[Aupmanyav]

Some are not aware, but there is a billionaire Jain in Silicon Valley working on a project to be the first religion to put a religious artifact on the moon planet.

Yes, how does it matter. And have not the Christians already put something there. Why this competition? However, my good wishes to Jains.

 

[Desert Snake]

Possibly that's one of the attractive things about it, the plurality and diversity.

True. I agree with that assessment!

 

[Rival]

I admire Hinduism a lot, especially as I nearly converted. It has all the respect that goes with an old Religion and Hindu fundamentalists don't regularly go out blowing up synagogues or smashing idols. They have a wide variety of different Paths, such as Vaisnavism and Saivite schools. They have wonderful Philosophies and can even accommodate Atheists.

I also respect Christianity because it is the Religion that raised me and I think it did good things for me. I admire Yeshua a lot and still hold to many of his teachings. They definitely helped me to be a better girl.

 

[Rick O'Shez]

I admire Hinduism a lot, especially as I nearly converted. It has all the respect that goes with an old Religion and Hindu fundamentalists don't regularly go out blowing up synagogues or smashing idols. They have a wide variety of different Paths, such as Vaisnavism and Saivite schools. They have wonderful Philosophies and can even accommodate Atheists.

Well said. I think Hinduism is one of the oldest religions, which perhaps explains it's tolerance, diversity and maturity.

 

[wintersolstice]

OK. This is going to be hard to explain and has tremendous potential to be misunderstood, but here goes...

I have often found myself envious of the unflagging certainty, black and white, no struggles with mysteries, no doubting attitudes of evangelical Christians. It seems so easy just to be able to point to the Bible and support its inerrancy.

My own faith journey seems so messy by comparison with so many questions, struggles, doubts and work to search out answers to the eternal questions of death, isolation, freedom and the meaning of life.

I certainly don't mean that I aspire to be an evangelical Christian, but they do always seem to have a glib answer to many of the issues that I struggle with.

 

[Deidre]

Of the Muslim friends I have, I greatly admire their steadfastness to prayer life.

 

[Kalibhakta]

In no real order; I admire the compassion Mahayana Buddhism, the goddess *I know they refuse to call it this* worship of Vajrayana Buddhism, the Marian devotion and devoted saints in Christianity, the sense of community in Judaism, the holyness of the Imams in Shia Islam, the love of god in Sufi Islam, the utter non-Violence of the Jains, The strength of tradition in Zoroastrianism, the nobility of the gods of Egypt, and the sacrosanct Martyrs of Sikhism.

Whew!