Why Can't People Accept Other Views?

[Sententia]

I was told today to not question the bible and to accept it as a child would. God does not want me to question his words but only to selflessly follow and conform to his teachings and expectations. When I cited shellfish as an example of an abomination according to god I was told it would be a lesser transgression and I should adhere more stringently to the more important teachings in the bible. Who determines those? Well your pastor or other holy men sent by god to help in understanding the bible.

Was the christian teachings and traditions based on earliers religions and both pagan and secular traditions? Do not speak such blasphemy.

*sigh*

 

[S-word]

LOL

Well it is my humble view that your view is without a base. Now why don't we stop this idle banter and skip through the flower meadows beyond yonder river?

You are quite right friend, this subject should not be trivialized, but when you say that we should accept every ones view, I would ask you to define the word ‘Accept’ according to the Universal Dictionary, the word ‘Accept is defined as follows: 1, To take or receive (Something offered) willingly. 2, To receive as adequate, satisfactory, or admissible: ‘accepted his exercise.’ 3,To admit as to a group or place: ‘accepted in the best circles.’ 4, To regard with favor or approval. 5,a. To regard as usual, proper or right. B. To regard as true; believe in: ‘accept a person’s view.’ And so in my humble view, your view that my view is without a base is baseless. I for one, cannot and will not accept everyones point of view, for as I said previously, It is my view that if we accepted everyone elses veiws, our minds would be like refuse tips reaching to the heights of heaven, pervading the glorious kingdom with the stench of the putrid substances that had been gathered to our minds.

 

[DarkSun]

You are quite right friend, this subject should not be trivialized, but when you say that we should accept every ones view, I would ask you to define the word ‘Accept’ according to the Universal Dictionary, the word ‘Accept is defined as follows: 1, To take or receive (Something offered) willingly. 2, To receive as adequate, satisfactory, or admissible: ‘accepted his exercise.’ 3,To admit as to a group or place: ‘accepted in the best circles.’ 4, To regard with favor or approval. 5,a. To regard as usual, proper or right. B. To regard as true; believe in: ‘accept a person’s view.’ And so in my humble view, your view that my view is without a base is baseless. I for one, cannot and will not accept everyones point of view, for as I said previously, It is my view that if we accepted everyone elses veiws, our minds would be like refuse tips reaching to the heights of heaven, pervading the glorious kingdom with the stench of the putrid substances that had been gathered to our minds.

Perhaps a better word than "accept" would be "tolerate" - so it looks like I used the wrong word in the thread title. I'm terribly sorry about that.

And do you really believe that? Because it looks to me as if Christ taught us to tolerate the viewpoints and cultures of others even if we don't necessarily agree. Would it not be hypocritical if such toleration and genuine interest denied us passage into the gates of Heaven?

I'm sure that God judges us based on what we do, and not necessarily what we believe is true. For the sake of sanity, I think we should do the same.

I could ellaborate much more on the matter but it would defer from the point of this thread. My question is: why are theists and non-theists alike so quick to condemn those that they disagree with? Oftentimes, when such a condemnation arises it stems from ignorance, not fact. If we want to get along in this world then why do we get upset, aggrivated, frustrated or otherwise feel superior when we percieve a view to be wrong? When we act through such feelings it only causes more conflict. So why do it? Wouldn't it be better to just agree to disagree and move forward?

 

[S-word]

quote....darkSun-----Perhaps a better word than "accept" would be "tolerate" - so it looks like I used the wrong word in the thread title. I'm terribly sorry about that.
Wouldn't it be better to just agree to disagree and move forward?

Most religions should not only be tolerated, but should also be accepted into the one group, as most have the truth hidden within their teachings, they who are not gathering, are in fact agents of division. The Buddhist teach us that we live in an eternal oscillating universe and reinforces the Biblical concept that after God has called all creation back to the singularity that is he, he will then create for us a new heaven and earth=universe, this same concept we find in the belief that Braham (Speech), the singularity who is the essential divine reality of the universe; the eternal and invisible spirit from which all being originates and to who all must return, only to burst forth as a new universal body in which another Supreme personality of Godhead will develop, who at the close of that universal cycle will enter into Brahman in the eternal evolution of the Most high who is one. And Brahman is likened to the Biblical ‘Logos,’ (Word) who is the divine animating principle that pervades all that is, of who the universal body in which there develops an intellect capable of comprehending the mind that is he, is but the physical manifestation of the eternal evolving invisible mind that is God the creative Logos.

The days of Brahma are called Manvantara or the cycle of manifestation, ‘The Great Day,’ which is a period of universal activity, that is preceded, and also followed by ‘Pralaya,’ a dark period, which to our finite minds seems as an eternity. ‘Manvantara,’ is a creative day as seen in the six days of creation in Genesis, ‘Pralaya,’ is the evening that precedes the next creative day.


Universe after universe is like an interminable succession of wheels forever coming into view, forever rolling onwards, disappearing and reappearing; forever passing from being to non being, and again from non being to being. In short, the constant revolving of the wheel of life in one eternal cycle, according to fixed and immutable laws, is perhaps after all the sum and substance of the philosophy of Buddhism. And this eternal wheel has so to speak, six spokes representing six forms of existence.” ---- Mon. Williams, Buddhism, pp. 229, 122.

When I said I do not accept everyone’s views, I meant it, for I do not accept all the views put forward by all the different bodies of peoples, but Neither do I reject everyone’s views, for there are many views put forward by many religions which I accept as truth.

 

[MusaaEl-Haadi]

Why Can't People Accept Other Views?

Because you have people with big Ego , And have to be right all the time !

Then you have those who Believe anything their so-called Scholar's , Theologian's , Preacher's , Teacher's , Minister's, Reverend's , Rabbis , Imaam's , Sheikhs , Pastor's , Minister , Tell them , When they themselves are only passing on what was pass on to them from other's . All the above are also Following diffrent Version / School of thought , And cliaming they have the only truth , knowldge , About the subject at hand . And never do they wonder why things are Set-up that way !!!!!

Then you have those who are to lazyyy to research things on their own . So they go to the above people Website , Utube's , links etc etc , For what they cliam to be the Truth / Knowldge .

 

[payak]

people don't have to research other peoples religions at all, however they should not judge them.

Follow your religion and don't worry what they are doing.

 

[Jiggerj]

Why Can't People Accept Other Views?

For me, it depends on the views.

I'm getting on in years. Whether I die tomorrow or ten years from now, I feel like I'm leaving my children and their children a world that is quickly spiraling down into madness.

Governments have become rabid dogs pulling on their chains, eager to attack each other. Religions are being used to justify murder, rape, hatred, and intolerance.

And I never thought I'd see a time when the nonconformists were the ones that refused to defile themselves with a tattoo or body piercing.

Our technology is advancing, becoming more and dangerous to handle, while the human race is devolving back into the savages we were hundreds of thousands of years ago.

So, no, I don't accept religion as a positive influence on our lives. In fact, I blame religion for most of the mess we're in today.

I don't accept our governments interfering in the affairs of other countries.

I don't accept people painting and mutilating their bodies as they do in primitive jungle tribes that don't know any better.

We have become an embarrassment to our claim of being an intelligent species.