[quote]Tex Ag wrote:
[quote]Professor X wrote:
[quote]Tex Ag wrote:
My concern is how little love, compassion, empathy, or willingness to understand there are differences between people by those who claim to be following his path.[/quote]
Interesting. Humans are flawed creatures…so you judge a religion by the faults of creatures who will no doubt have faults.
I personally don’t like many churches for many of the same reasons.
The difference?
I can separate the religion and the teachings from the faults of man.
You seem to blame the religion because those people exist.
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Fair point, but if you look back at my post I was not making a blanket statement about all, but some. If that is not clear, I apologize to those you were offended.
All religions are the construction of man, even when the messages for the creator may be direct quotes. So if humans are flawed as you say, and I agree, then I hope you can see that those same flaws find themselves, at times, in the practice and understanding of religious texts. [/quote]
That goes for politics as well. That is why you are responsible for learning and doing some research. I am not a person who just follows others without question. I am not a person who ignores science. I am not a person who ignores the possibility of a creator.
I am one who tries to avoid getting into arguments often as if the goal is to change someone’s mind on religion. I don’t degrade atheists…but see degradation from them so often it gets boring to watch.
As far as what you just wrote, yes, there are no doubt faults that creep into the practices of some religions. As soon as you perfect yourself…then work on everyone else.
Until then, just accept that it is up to you to get what you need from the source you need it.
I personally would find living in a world with the assumption that chaos just accidentally threw it together to be pretty un-fulfilling. I am glad I didn’t make that choice.
