It was humanbeing who created religion out of Jealosy to each other but not God
By humbleme
@humbleme (1004)
India
September 1, 2007 3:26am CST
Hello friends, Before I start this discussion I would like
to clear my positions very clear that I am a Hindu but I have deep respect for each and every religion and the purpose to start this discussion is neither to get large number of responses not to creat a controversy hurting anybodies feelings but to update true knowledge and better understanding as I have myself readthese books in english version throughly few years back.
In the year 2002 my copassanger in a flight was a 87yrs old
gentleman, he used to be an ex professor in a Muslim University and had a pulished research papers of 50yrs career regarding
The Quran,The Bible and The Gita. I had already read Quran
so i was asking some questions for clarifications and he said, " Do you believe a prophet like Mohammad could have
preached or written about Jihad and killing innocent people?Do you believe Prophet like Jesus or a wise man like
Moses would discriminate one human with other human saying
we the jew are wise for we have the law of the Lord, and Jesus himself prayed Lord to forgive those who crucified him? Lord Krishna adviced to Arjuna about creation and
life inside the battle field and that was Gita, but you can well understand that neither Lord krishna nor Arjuna wrote
it."
I asked him then who is the real author? and he said" I really dont know and sure, inspite of my 50yrs reseach carrer I have the real 120yrs old The Quran book with me
and since the last 25years I am getting new chapters in new
editions in the name of Muhammad and Allah .The truth is all religion has been distorted by few people to realise their own sake or interest as religion is now breadand butter for many so they will never accept the real truth
that God or Lord creaded humanbeing but God never created
religion,it was human being who created religion out of jealosy to each other.'
What is your opinion was the gentleman right or wrong?
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5 responses
@lecanis (16647)
• Murfreesboro, Tennessee
1 Sep 07
I think I could agree with you if you said that human beings change religion out of jealousy of each other, but I'm not sure you could say they created it for that reason. For example, archeologists have found that people were already doing religious and burial ceremonies in times when we think of these people as being "cavemen". So it seems that religion is something that has always been part of humanity.
Also historically cultures didn't have as much contact with each other as they do now, so many religions would have grown up in absence of any real contact with other religions. So why would they have been created out of jealousy?
Rather, religions were created in order to explain natural phenomena, originally. Almost every early religion has a lot of the same types of deities that filled the same roles, related either to everyday tasks humans did, or to natural phenomena.
That isn't to say that I don't believe in any divine inspiration whatsoever, as I obviously do, otherwise I wouldn't be a religous person myself. But if you're going to say people created religion, you can't say it was because of jealousy, because religions existed long before most people even knew there were people other than their own tribe or culture in the world.
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@lecanis (16647)
• Murfreesboro, Tennessee
1 Sep 07
Come to think of it, wouldn't you have a problem saying you belong to a religion if you believe that human beings created it with no divine inspiration whatsoever? If you think the religion exists only because of jealousy of other people, why do you believe in it?
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@lecanis (16647)
• Murfreesboro, Tennessee
1 Sep 07
I think anyone who believes in their religion would have to say that it was at some point divinely inspired, otherwise they wouldn't believe in it. If you don't believe that Hinduism has any really truth to it, why would you be Hindu?
I don't believe that any one religion has all the truth there is within it, because otherwise there wouldn't be people who believed in other religions. So no, there is no religion that is greater than all of humanity, because there is no religion that all of humanity is in. Each religion has value for the people who follow it.
I do, however, believe that the deities I follow actually exist, and actually had a hand in not only creating the world, but revealing themselves and their stories to human beings. I don't believe that some druid somewhere sat down one day and created the Celtic religion, I believe that the Gods actually choose to reveal themselves to people if they want those people to follow them. If I didn't believe that, then I wouldn't be in the religion I am, because I wouldn't believe that my primary Goddess spoke to me directly when I was a small child.
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@TravisE (440)
• United States
20 Nov 07
From your story I think a more accurate way to express it is that human beings subsequent to those who spoke the original scriptures, changed what was spoke for the advantage of them and theirs. The original seed, inspired by connection with the divine, was pure. In later generations the teachings become corrupted to the advantage of those who are not open to the divine at the same level. So, no, religion was not created out of jealousy, but has been used and changed by it.
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@Lydia1901 (16351)
• United States
27 Jun 08
That was a very interesting information that you have here and thank you for sharing this. It was very informative.
@sudiptacallingu (10879)
• India
4 Sep 07
The man was bang correct. All these religions are just for the sake of one community trying to dominate on the other. They put the fear of God and try to spread their religion just to take control…physical, economic and territorial. Economic and territorial control were, I believe, the prime aim and for that the religious carrot had to be dangled both in front of fighting soldiers and the vanquished for unquestioned acceptance.
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@mustafabadri (178)
• India
19 Oct 07
you have started a great discussion in quest of truth --- i got the point you are talking about,you covered lots of point in this discussion i agree with some and disagree with some with my own explaination.
one thing you must be sure about is that god has not created religions but a single religion -- he send many prophits not to creat so many religions but to follow a single path and that is to except one god -- you are a hindu and i really like this religion becouse many concepts of ours are the same as yours -- this is not the topic i want to deal with -- i believe that all the prophits were on a single path they only wanted people to live in the peace and to creat the hummanity --- they did not come with the different religions but the people for there purpose named different,according to you if there was no religion how can one preach the god.... sorry ill continue the discussion if you reply to me thanks.....i need to go
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