We can be friendly only if our different religious views are not trifled with. Don't you see that in every-day life? Don't Christians, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists work together in governments, offices, industry, colleges and laboratories? Where is the need to make compromises? Faith / belief is a personal thing. Why should it interfere in any other field? Bahais are not being honest. Their universal love is just a sham. They are basically fooling others. Underline mine.
That was well expressed. We do indeed rub shoulders with people of all faiths in our day to day life...at work, at school, at the mall and there is no conflict because our religion does not matter in these places. We are just people interacting in fairly neutral territory. What matters is that a person's religion is their business, and we can speak of religious matters with religiously minded ones if they wish, and even debate the differences among us.....and we can express disappointment towards those who are not living up to the label they wear because it gives our faith a bad name.
Nothing pulls a religion down more than hypocrites who wear their religion as a banner and use it as an excuse to create ill-will with others. Most especially is this so when some have fled their country because of persecution and then used their religion to create division in the country that adopted them. It chafes a lot of people.
If many believe that there is "ONE GOD" who is the Creator of all, then why are there so many religions in the first place? Does anyone ever ask that question?
And how do people express a 'faith' in no god at all, since nothing is "provable" either way?
Why does atheism need a religion?
To my understanding as a Bible believer, we humans are divided over religion because we stepped away from the true religion and the true God right at the very beginning....humans wanted to make up their own religion, in line with their own wants and needs....they created their gods 'in their image' to validate their own chosen course....and humans being humans, many just followed along because they didn't want to go to the bother of reasoning anything out for themselves....they just wanted to be part of the group...to fit in.
"Religion in name only" seems to be the most common form for the majority of people in western society...their parents practiced a religion and they were indoctrinated from infancy to 'perform'...so they were never taught to think for themselves or to question any of it. The thinkers among us couldn't wear that, so we did question, and many were convinced that what they were taught was rubbish, and either ditched their former god(s) altogether, or found it easier to transition into a more comfortable form of worship. One that suited them better. I actually see Baha'i as a religion that just wants everyone to get along and worship whoever they wish because its all the same God at the end of the day. All those "messengers" from different faiths with conflicting messages are all supposedly sent by God......why? Just to confuse us? It presents as a "have your cake and eat it too" faith. Nothing adds up.
We all have choices and we are all free to make them. But religion is divisive, there is no doubt about that.....these sites wouldn't exist if that were not so. But informed choice is the only one that matters.....so how informed are we? These sites help us to form our opinions by being exposed to many points of view.
IMO, God does not hide from those who genuinely seek him. But many want to squeeze him into the box that they have created for him, rather than squeezing themselves into the box that he created for them.
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