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What are the three defining messages/elements of your religion?

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by AroundTheWorld, May 23, 2010.

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  1. AroundTheWorld

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    Whichever religion you believe in - if you had to condense it to its core - that what matters most and what is at the top of why you are following your religion - what is it?
     
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    I can condense it to a single word:

    Oneness.
     
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    Can you please explain in brief words, thanks.
     
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    Abbey Lincoln + a good manhattan + rockets basketball = a religious experience.
     
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    Truth, Tolerance and Progress.
     
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    人之初 (rén zhī chū) People at birth,
    性本善 (xìng běn shàn) Are naturally good (kind-hearted).
    性相近 (xìng xiāng jìn) Their natures are similar,
    習相遠 (xí xiāng yuǎn) (But) their habits make them different (from each other).

    first 4 verses in kids' version of the Confucian classics. everybody knows it by heart.
     
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    To crush my enemies
    See them driven before me
    Hear the lamentation of their women
     
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    I'd like to see a feature-length film about Vlad the Impaler.
     
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    God is just, merciful, kind, omniscient, forgiving
    God created us
    To reap reward both on Earth and in the afterlife we must follow God's will
     
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    this is in essence what Islam is about...

    just no one seems to know that anymore.
     
  11. Batman Jones

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    Yet another in a series of threads created by ATW to bash Muslims. Seriously man, start a blog or something. You're becoming basso.
     
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    That's what almost every major religion is described as.

    Islam is the combination of Judeo mythology, Persian bureaucracy, Arab finance, and Byzantium tradition. In all, it's contribution is better seen as the first Nationalist movement without the basis in race. For its time, it was probably the most influential movement until around the 1300s when the renaissance began taking root. With economic imperialism and the associated industrialization, Islam was no longer an effective system of rule. Today, Islam does not have the capacity for growth that other systems like liberalism have.

    Islamic doctrine inhibits intellectuals and its archaic rules toward lending prevent post-industrial economic growth.
     
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    Well, that didn't take long.
     
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    When you've spent a few years studying Near East religions, you see the conversation as a much different one.
     
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    I'm interested in hearing the OP's three defining elements of his religion since he brought up the discussion.

    I have been attending a Methodist Church lately but do not identify myself as a Christian. I just get a good vibe from the Methodist Church. So again, when the Minister is up there talking about Jesus, I try my best to capture something positive about the sermon. here are some statements and credos from the UMC.


    "Do Justice. Love Kindly, and walk Humbly with God."

    "In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity"

    "Though we may not think alike, may we not all love alike?" - John Wesley

    I mean really, aren't all religions essentially the same?
     
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    Everything is impermanent.
    Live in the moment.
    Karma is a b****.
     
  17. Batman Jones

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    I'll take this one on his behalf as OP is uncharacteristically absent from the board for more than five minutes at once.

    1. Judge
    2. Condemn
    3. Annoy
     
  18. bobrek

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    More than three words, but this says it all:

    Be courteous, kind and forgiving,
    Be gentle and peaceful each day,
    Be warm and human and grateful,
    And have a good thing to say.

    Be thoughtful and trustful and childlike,
    Be witty and happy and wise,
    Be honest and love all your neighbors,
    Be obsequious, purple, and clairvoyant.

    Be pompous, obese, and eat cactus,
    Be dull, and boring, and omnipresent,
    Criticize things you don't know about,
    Be oblong and have your knees removed.

    Be tasteless, rude, and offensive,
    Live in a swamp and be three dimensional,
    Put a live chicken in your underwear,
    Get all excited and go to a yawning festival.

    O.K. everybody!

    Be courteous, kind and forgiving,
    Be gentle and peaceful each day,
    Be warm and human and grateful,
    And have a good thing to say.

    Be thoughtful and trustful and childlike,
    (O.K. everybody on this!)
    Be witty and happy and wise,
    Be honest and love all your neighbors,
    Be obsequious, purple, and clairvoyant.
    (Let 'em hear you outside!)

    Be pompous, obese, and eat cactus,
    (Everybody sing!)
    Be dull, and boring, and omnipresent,
    Criticize things you don't know about,
    Be oblong and have your knees removed.

    (Ladies only)
    Be tasteless, rude, and offensive,
    (Now the men)
    Live in a swamp and be three dimensional,
    (Everybody)
    Put a live chicken in your underwear,
    Go into a closet and suck eggs.
     
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    I think you follow whatever faith that is. You are certainly annoying.
     
  20. CometsWin

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    Suffering
    Cause of suffering
    End of suffering
    The path leading to the end of suffering
     

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