mutation wrote on Oct 20
th, 2012 at 10:10pm:
Not that i have a particular problem with that but you will only get some benefit from the ending of religion if people come to it themselves.
You cant legislate intelligence!
The real problem with your suggestion is that Islam really only barely qualifies as a religion and the religious component isnt much different to any other. Essentially it is a promise by someone who doesnt exist to disproportionately reward those who dont deserve it with that which will never be delivered. The problem with Islam is the political component and that it is essentially a roadmap to global conquest.
I think we can start with ridding the world of Islam any way we can and trust that other religions will just evaporate over time.
Thing is i just dont see too many Jews Hindus or Christians flying planes into buildings!
LOL
So true!!
The problem isn't religion, or the belief of some among us [myself included] in the existence of a deity [creator].
The 'problem', is man himself.
The problem is our nature.
The truth is that
all 'normal' human beings are vain, selfish, lustful, greedy, violent creatures,
who, when we are without restraint, demonstrate very clearly, a propensity for making poor [unwise] choices, but then [often] subsequently, we seek to avoid responsibility, for our poor choices.
And, imo,
that choice [of trying to avoid responsibility] is yet
another poor choice.
IMO, people who make such life choices, are foolish children.
We human beings are innately clever creatures, and we are meant to be wise enough,
to learn from our past mistakes, imo.
And if that description of ourselves is true, it leads to another Q.
That, if the problem [of man] is within man, and, if there is a God, why would a creator, create such a flawed entity, as man ?
Personally, i believe that that, has got something to do, with God choosing to give us, individually, the freedom to make either good choices, or poor choices.
And with an option for making choices, we can also make mistakes!
And imo, making mistakes [and suffering the consequences of those mistakes!], is one of the surest ways of learning 'truth'. [i.e. painful life experiences can afford us the opportunity, to learn 'right', from 'wrong']
My belief, is that we, all of us, are essentially spiritual creatures,
confined within clay 'temples'.
IMO, in our journey here, we have a measure of freedom [to make choices], but that we are confined within a prison.
I have had the 'opportunity' to see a lot of wicked things, here in this world, wicked things done by
foolish men.
And when i leave here,
i want to live in the light.
And i hope that my creator, will not count me, as being among one of the foolish children.
Because the foolish 'children' will be thrown into the darkness [which will be another form of confinement!].
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Daniel 12:10
Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand.
Isaiah 48:10
Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver;
I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.
Revelation 21:7
He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.
8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.