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Do you treat followers of other religious beliefs with the respect due to all fellow humans?
ANGEL
2012/08/07 05:14:08
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I recently read that the most effective way to reduce
inter-religious disputes is for the major religions of
the world to give greater priority to the teaching of universal human
rights. If they were to emphasize human rights more than they currently do, they could make a major impact towards world peace.
The article suggests that too often, groups teach that one's own faith group possesses all of the truth and other "religions worship demons and are led by Satan." The end result is fear of and contempt towards other faith groups and
religions. They promote "treating followers of other religions with the respect due all fellow humans" as well as treating non-believers with the same respect. This would apply to ALL groups including but not limited to Christianity, Pagans, Hindus, Islam, Scientology, Judaism, Jehovah's Witness, etc., as well as Atheists, Agnostics, etc.
Do you treat followers of other religious beliefs with the respect due all fellow humans? (And I am not talking about any fanatical group that promotes violence or abuse of women or children)
inter-religious disputes is for the major religions of
the world to give greater priority to the teaching of universal human
rights. If they were to emphasize human rights more than they currently do, they could make a major impact towards world peace.
The article suggests that too often, groups teach that one's own faith group possesses all of the truth and other "religions worship demons and are led by Satan." The end result is fear of and contempt towards other faith groups and
religions. They promote "treating followers of other religions with the respect due all fellow humans" as well as treating non-believers with the same respect. This would apply to ALL groups including but not limited to Christianity, Pagans, Hindus, Islam, Scientology, Judaism, Jehovah's Witness, etc., as well as Atheists, Agnostics, etc.
Do you treat followers of other religious beliefs with the respect due all fellow humans? (And I am not talking about any fanatical group that promotes violence or abuse of women or children)
Top Opinion
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twister 2012/08/09 14:05:02
A person and I may have our own disagreements, but any debates, deliberations, and discussions should be done with mutual-respect, the desire to learn, and a thirst for truth.
Any conviction has to come from יהוה Himself. No amount of insults will convince.
Besides, the point shouldn't be simply to convince the other of one's own fallible interpretation of truth, but to glean things to learn form the other party's statements and to use those learned pieces of truth to get a little closer to the whole.
If someone act like a jerk, then I don't want to hang out with them, but I won't bother them
No other religion is accepted by HIS ALLAH except Islam .... Qran 2: 256
If someone told me they believed in leprechauns, I would absolutely not, and should not have to, respect that belief...because it is nonsense.
The person? No problem. Let's go have a beer. But if you bring up the leprechauns again I'm going to lay into you for the sake of reason and discovery. Sorry!
The Catholic Church also clearly teaches that while Catholicism contains the FULLNESS of religious truth, other religions have at least SOME elements of religious truth. This dispels this tired old myth that the Church holds an "we're completely right and everyone else is completely wrong" attitude.
It is a lack of religion -- certainly not the presence of it -- that has caused the vast majority of the world's death, oppression, and suffering in the world.
Just in the last 100 or so years, atheist despots like Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, Mao, Kim Jong-il, Castro, and others are collectively responsible for the deaths of at least 100 million people. And the mass oppression of millions more.
This idea that "religion causes violence and war" is a sickeningly false myth. State-Sponsored Atheism is the most deadly societal institution in human history, and much of its bloodshed has occurred in our very own lifetimes. Unlike the centuries-ago Crusades and Inquisitions that the religion-bashers always bring up. As if they really care about the people who died in them. They most certainly don't.
No offense, but I'm sure the world's major religions will get by just fine ... without your "respect."