Religion generally has some good moral lessons. People unfortunately take things to extremes..especially..the notion of "absolute truth"..since all must be 'absolute truth' in religion people live to spin everything....true, mythical, or imagined...into the truth...Religions started from superstitious generations with much lesser understanding of their surroundings...and that naivette is spread to future generations. I'm baffled by Judaism-Origin Religions: Judaism, Christianity, Islam...the sword has been used to loot and kill in God's name. Ask anyone anywhere about their own ancestors' teaching and beliefs and you get a blank! People instead of learning their history and cultural belief systems have been drawn into running around claiming Eurasian Religion originating from old school Palestine...,an utter wasteland that is the reason for so much senseless bloodshed....IDOLATRY of the largest extent of 'Geography'...of places by religions which claim to dismiss IDOLATRY...when their own IDOLATRY is the world record holder....When people will outgrow some of these senseless dogmatism-that I am right and you are all wrong-the world will be a better place.|||I guess your idea was to troll, but I can't agree more with your statements:)|||That was all done for economics,|||Religion: ??? I haven't heard any way that church , Mosque or Synagogue produced a atom bomb. Laboratory is usually in a hands of few Atheists.
There is both unity and diversity among world religions. There are many areas in which religions agree and there are also serious theological, philosophical and practical differences among them. It is quite presumptuous to say that all these differences do not matter and everything eventually leads to the same end.
The Qur’an gives us a very clear guidance on the subject of unity and diversity among religions. Let me emphasize few points from the Qur’anic perspective:
1. According to the Qur’an, human beings are by nature religious. Allah instilled in them His awareness through their “primordial nature” (Al-Fitrah, Ar-Rum 30: 30). This primordial nature in human beings recognizes the Divine, truth and goodness. All human beings have a common religiousness, just as they have a common sense.
2. The story of the origin of human beings is related in the Qur’an at several places (Al-Baqarah 2: 30-39; Al-A`raf 7: 11-25; Al-Hijr 15: 26-44; Al-Israa’ 17: 61-65; Al-Kahf 18: 50; Taha 20: 115-123; Saad 38: 71-85). However, on each occasion some fresh points and new insights are introduced. The basic message of the story is that Allah honored the first parents of humanity and allowed them to stay in Paradise for some time. He told them to enjoy everything, to eat and drink all they wished to but not to approach a certain tree. However, Iblis, the devil who was their enemy, misled both of them causing them to soon depart from Paradise. Upon their expulsion from Paradise they were told to beware of the Devil and not to fall into his traps. They were also assured that Allah would send His guides and messengers among them to show them the path of truth and righteousness. If they followed Allah’s prophets and messengers they would return to Paradise wherein they had been originally placed, or else they would lose it forever and end up in the total perdition of Hell.
3. Thus, as promised, Allah raised messengers from time to time among all peoples. (There was not a community), says the Qur’an, (except that a warner came to them.) (Fatir 35: 24); (For every people there was a guide.)(Al-Ra`d 13: 7) Finally the last Prophet, Muhammad came, concluding this prophetic line and giving the complete and final message of Allah to all mankind (Saba’ 34: 28).
4. The Qur’an emphasizes that the messages of all the Prophets of Allah were identical as far as the fundamental beliefs are concerned (see Al-A`raf 7: 59-93; Al-Anbiyaa’ 21: 25; and As-Shu`araa’ 26: 1-191). However, they differed in some practical details in consideration of the vicissitudes of time and place (Al-Ma’idah 5: 48). The religion of all the Prophets and Messengers of Allah throughout history was one and the same - Islam- that is ‘submission to Allah’. Islam in this sense is not a new religion, it is rather the original religion of all mankind and Prophet Muhammad is not the founder of Islam but its final messenger.
5. Although human beings hail from one and same origin and were originally one community, they do have differences. Not all differences are bad. Some differences are created by Allah. The diversity introduced by Allah in the human situation consists of the variety of genders, colors and languages among human beings and the multiplicity of races and tribes. These diversities are considered natural and are called “Allah’s signs” (Ayat) in the Qur’an (Ar-Rum 30:20-22). They are indicative of Allah’s creative power and are good and healthy since they endow human life with richness and beauty. Allah wants human beings to derive benefit from this diversity and not to allow these diversities to generate unhealthy schisms and divisions among them on the basis of genders, colors, languages or racial and tribal origins.
6. In addition to these natural diversities, there are other differences that were introduced by human beings. These are the diversities of viewpoints among human beings. The Qur’an recognizes the individuality of human beings and of their groups and communities. Not all diversities in views and opinions are considered evil either. On the contrary, sometimes the difference of opinion might be a token of Allah’s mercy. However, the dissension and disputes that lead to divisions and sectarianism are denounced in the Qur’an: (Those who divided their religion and broke up into sects, you have no part in them in the least. Their affair is with Allah. He will, in the end, tell them the truth of all that they did.)(Al-An`am 6:159) Such divisions arose, the Qur’an points out, because of undue selfishness, transgression, aggression and mutual jealousy (Al-Baqarah 2: 213; Aal `Imran 3: 19).|||Religion evolved from mankind's lack of scientific knowledge to explain how the God Yahweh has achieved creating what we can see and not see from His working knowledge of advanced fields of science that are still unknown to mankind today to explain.|||remember the swine running downhill and drowning in the lake. God has an enemy that is hateful and does cruel things and blames the heavenly Father|||ya know i have this argument with one of my best friends every day we see each other. my first point is that god never said to conquer the world and senselessly kill everybody. 2. i as a christian believe that much of what we follow was put there by man, as many other things humans have done to benefit them self's. 3. these things will happen rather there is religion or not. just as in a fascist or communist state where religion has often been discouraged if not illegal people still die for no reason constantly. we are humans and will ALWAYS think we are better than some other culture or religion or ideology in this beautiful world. i personally believe that we are just here because something put us here to see how we would react being put together with people who do not think the same way. it is simple as that. i can't explain it all to be honest. believe what you want to. im going to be honest there is probably just one reason (probably parents or grandparents) that you didn't like that made you turn on god. (i don't think god cares if your atheist or not) but it made you hate everything about religion even the good things in the bible. but to the bottom point i agree with you because of Christianity, more so selfish people who molded Christianity to do their personal bidding, a lot of innocent people died for no reason. but this happened because of the idea of genetics and evolution too. hens the holocaust, that had to do with religion too but it was about EVOLVING to be better than to jews remember?
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