Witch one?

Could be interesting study better the Manitou believes too. Native americans had a great way about the religion and the world.

I would read the Bible but I am not a Chiristan;and I would read the Buddhism,but I am not a Buddhist.We have no rights to push anyone to believe a certain religion,there religion belief is right,they have their freedom and rights to decide which one religion they believe.

I'm sure you live a good life. Never thinked that someone need a religion to have a good life ;)

(Laughing about your comment on the Krypton faith) On the serious side. You mention that the goal of the true religion would be to keep people under control. I think the opposite is true. John 8:32 (New International Version) 32Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free." The true religion is liberating and not enslaving. The rules of true religion allow us to enjoy true freedom. Just like the traffic laws keep us from harming ourselves and others. Take care!

Yeah, this should be the main purpose of the religion. Also if I guess that the true goal of the religion is keep people under control. So, let me think.... Chatolics... no, due the jewish prosecution runned for centuries, I don't guess they influence the members to be better people... Islam.... I don't guess the jihad make members better people... Jewish... I don't know so much, but, also if I recognize them the right to be angry with the whole world (since the ancient egypt they were prosecuted everywhere), I don't guess we can say they treat so good their neighbors. What about the Kripton faith, Kal-El?

Obviously God have an ant face! I meant the true God, not that false idols of the other religions ;) :P :P :P (do you guess I need to clearly explain the above sentence was a joke, before someone else will rate me with a -??)

Eheheheh, don't worry, someone already rated me with - today. I started the day with 59 points, falling down to 57 till now ;)

Maybe to a true worshipper, the real God is the anteater. And of course you should be rated with a minus.And so should I. But I guess that now my mylot´s living room is so filled with friends that they´d lift up my rating in a jiffy.

If my friend says that her religion is better than mine, it means she don't respect me and my beliviors, so probably it means I chosen the wrong friend ;)

I was being sarcastic. Just about everyone thinks theirs is the right one and all others are at least a bit misguided. Heck Bleep religion. I'll just worship my cats. They are perfect creatures deserving of being loved cherished and worshiped as gods and goddesses. Cats rock my world. You would never have guessed from my screen name. Huh? LOL

Thanks for don't force me ;) I don't know wich one is your God, also if I suppose that for a CatLady from Israel is not the Cat(holic) one ;). Anyway, if you could better know me, you would never suppose I could enter in the heaven ;)

These are great words. Could be nice if everyone in the world would remember to keep well firm in his mind these words. What about if I invite someone to embrace my religion, and after studied my religion he will decide to embrace mine one leaving his former religion? Should be ok? At least he's just deciding to believe in God, just in another way, right?

Starting from the point to accept the existence of a God, and starting from the point that all the religions are a try to represent that God (also if in different ways) and give to the believers some life rules, do you guess that we (humans) should try to "make a sum" of the actual religions, trying to figure out the "rigth God", and a subset of uneversally accepted liferules? Could we try to find the "politically correct" religion in this way?

Well. About have no fear of God I'm not totally agree. If God is the one that killed thousands egyptians to save His "Chosen People", than I guess I have fear. If God is the one that sent the Great Flood to punish his childs, I have fear. If God is the ones that don't care of dozen thousands people that die starving every year in the world, I have fear. If is the one that done nothing to stops the wars in the human history, I have fear. If this is God, then is really better believe in the Flying Spaghetti monster. If this is God, I can have fear but, more, I don't need him. "I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't." Jules (Renard), 1:25

Oh, so it was ITS people. I was heard that we are all his child, not only some ones. And well, I've a little difficult to understand to whom the punishment is sent when some disaster like the recent earthquakes happens, or when the tsunamis arrives. Another thing I've not totally understood. If he was punishing the Egyptians like a parent, because of what they done to ITS people, where he was when the nazi was killing 6 million people of the same ITS people?

I C, thanks for your explanations.

Yes, I guess I can say you're right. About the 10 commandments, here there is a problem. Different religions have "adapted" the commandments of God to their own way to be a religion. The Holy Bible should be the common base of jewish and Catholics (and protestants, and avventists, and so on). Assuming the history datation of the religions whe should say that the Jewish bible should be the "original" one, at least because till the "Jesus revolution" that bible should be the only one. Now, if you compare the two versions of the 10 commandments, you will easily see that catholics have "cutted of" the number 2 (that protestants still have in the original version), and splitted the number 10 into 2 different commandments. So the number of commandments is still the same (10), but catholics, with this modify, "gain" the right to pray the images. The "cutted of" commandment says something like: 2. You shall not make for yourself any idol, nor bow down to it or worship it. (and this is the reason catholic cutted of: it don't fit with the worship of Maria, all the Saints, and so on). This commandment disappeared in the catholic version of the 10 commandments, and simply the other commandments are shifted up by one position. The original 10th should be something like: 10. You shall not covet anything that belongs to your neighbor. That becomed 9. You shall not covet your neighbor's wife. 10. You shall not covet your neighbor's goods. And with this "trick" voilat! The commandments now are 10 again, but there is not anymore the one that is not "politically correct" according to the catholic religion rules ;)

Oh, I guess I'm almost right about the commandments. You can easily find it comparing the different versions of the Bible (there are dozens of different versions). You will find yourself that the catholic, protestant and jewish have slight different versions of the commandments, and the catholic ones, as I said, cutted out the commandment 2 and splitted into 2 commandments the number 10. Assuming that the "original" book should be the jewish one (just from an historical point of view because of the "release date", I'm not assigning any religious reason in this sentence), should be clear that the modifications were made by catholics, right?

As I said, it is NOT the religion that will save us, it is by our faith and love for God. God will not discriminate any religions, he will judge us according to our hearts. He will not say-- Oh you are a catholic or Oh you are a protestant or so on , you are not allowed in my kingdom... Religions have different beliefs and versions, same as people have different understanding in certain things. Like for example, if we were given a sentence to read-- I may understood or interpreted it differently to the way you understood it and/or others too... But what ever the interpretation is- the main objective is to follow and respect GOD. And that is what matter most to him. Our obidience and faith in Him. I am a catholic but I am aware of that "You shall not make for yourself any idol, nor bow down to it or worship it." And I don't agree with it too.

Yes, you're right. But seems that lot of people don't think so. In the whole human history there were (and there are) wars because of the religion. So there is something wrong. Or not all the Gods are asking tolerance from their believers, or someone teached something wrong to some believers.

People teach hatred to benefit themselves

hey there Cholent :D

Yes, and I guess is in the humans DNA the behavior to believe that their truths must be universal truths. I guess this happens on lot of topics, including the religion. Thanks, and have a nice time.

Of course every religion should be examined carefully including MY religion. I wonder how many people would think EXACTLY as I do. Probably very few all though more and more people are coming close. I think you missed the point about the religions that the Sufi was asked about. I could have just as easily written Islam and Christianity.

I lost one reputation point. I guess people don't like it that I don't think exactly like they do. Anytime you get into politics or religion, your reputation will go down. Our star rating is not supposed to be for agreeing or disagreeing, but for making a well thought out comment, but people don't play by the rules and will hit negative if they disagree with you. ciao

Sorry, I would never like to call a fanatic a stupid person. He's for sure a dangerous person. Fanatism and fundamentalism are two of the biggest problem of the religions, and we all should be take care of this problem. You can see here in this discussion too, thanks to fanatism I've already lose 2 reputation points ;)

Maybe you're right, forcing people into a religion is pretty much impossible. But the history teach us that forced conversions were done in the ancient times and in the modern times (up to the second world war by the Catholic church against jewish). And till nowadays with a slight variant: instead to try to force people into a conversion, they simply kill the people that "guilty" belives in the "wrong God".

Sometimes is amazing how someone can imply an answer giving another answer. "in James 1:5.....". What do you guess it can means for a buddist, or a muslim, or an agnostic this name? The first name I got in my mind was Jesse James, a famous "western epopea" bandit. I suppose that's not the man said that, so probably you are referring to the Holy Bible. You see, we all are inclined to make the same mistake. If we follow a religion, expecially in a country where that religion is the most followed one, then we suppose ALL the people should know and follow that religion. In some countries you can find an Holy Bible in any hotel room (I guess in the US is in this way). Forgetting that at least half of the world don't believe in any of the 3 monotheistic religions. Is always nice share our beliefs, but we should keep in mind that is possible we are talking to people that knows nothing about them, so better explain something we could consider obvious. ;)

Yes, this could be true. Maybe the problem is that some people don't only calls God with different name, but seems want to kill the ones that call God with a different name than the one they use.