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I just wish they would understand that my beliefs are mine and personal, based on my life experience and what I perceive as God and I have no desire to force them to believe mine and would like the same respect from them.
Religion would not pose the threat it does to society and ultimately the future of mankind if believers felt as you do.
Sadly a significant number of believers don't, and we see many (not all) of the ills of society as the result, i.e. the organized hate campaign against homosexuality to discriminate against another significant number of member OF our society. Reason will overcome such willful ignorance as it did in the last baseless discrimination born in the culture of religion, racism. But untold victims will suffer until that happens, and all you have to do is look at the victims of racism to see how ugly that can be. All over a god you all say is just. Really
I think it would be awesome if fundamentalist Christians had an "aha" moment, where they realized the beliefs they see as "truths" are really just stories someone told them that they then believed, with no critical thought involved.
What if the experience seems to be shared by a group of people? But it's not just a group of people, its literally thousands of people who've had this "experience".
I'm not trying to discredit your post... I'm just saying that there is something that you can't discredit religious people for. I think experience is about the only thing they can't be discredited for.
Actually I find that to be one of the strongest pieces of evidence that no religion has found the truth yet.
It is really no surprise that thousands of people would experience something that their particular religious beliefs have taught them to expect.
If you suddenly had thousands of Christians with no knowledge of Hindu seeing visions of Vishnu or thousands of Hindus with no exposure to Christianity claiming to have met Jesus, that would mean something.
When thousands of Christians claim to have had some type of experience that involves god or Jesus, all it proves is the power of religious indoctrination.
Actually I find that to be one of the strongest pieces of evidence that no religion has found the truth yet.
It is really no surprise that thousands of people would experience something that their particular religious beliefs have taught them to expect.
If you suddenly had thousands of Christians with no knowledge of Hindu seeing visions of Vishnu or thousands of Hindus with no exposure to Christianity claiming to have met Jesus, that would mean something.
When thousands of Christians claim to have had some type of experience that involves god or Jesus, all it proves is the power of religious indoctrination.
I don't agree at all, but I see where you're coming from.
What if the experience seems to be shared by a group of people? But it's not just a group of people, its literally thousands of people who've had this "experience".
What is the one thing you wish people from the other side (those holding opposing beliefs from yours) understood? What is the one thing that you feel they really need to know? It is the one thing that if they understood, a lot of other things would fall into place or open up for them. Please explain why you think that one thing would be so pivotal.
I would like them to know that my beliefs are nothing to take personal.
Truth.
A lot of people actually don't want to hear the truth. They don't want their believes to be questioned, because they are afraid their believes aren't true, or aren't true enough to support themselves and combat the questions in a realistic, truth seeking way.
The One Thing I Wish People from the Other Side Understood
My life is not empty, worthless and lost without your god.
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