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No, they may appear the same, but their actions are not....For example.
Wednesday, 29 April 2009 16:28 UK
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Elwill...I think Liberalvoice is sikh or at least part sikh and most sikhs have this phobia about Islam due to to their ancestors past encounters with the Moghuls.
thanks braderjoe , i actully had good conversation with her before , it dosn't matter with me how much she hate islam or fear from muslims (it's enough for me that she show respect and polite with her discussion ) , i usually give the people excuses for taking these views about muslims because they didn't lived with muslims or dialed with them in thier practical life and they didn't explore the teaching of islam from muslims themselfs , the only source they have about islam is the media and newspapers which focus in islam to represent it as to be evil
we have nothing to fear , i'm sure that everyone hate islam is allready misinformed about islam , only those people who are sincere will show respect and open mind to at least listen from us and try to understand the things from our point of view
i'm talking about successfull communication and benefits of discussions
i noted that everyone criticise islam are always depend on some specific basis : politics basis or odd cases with fool or barbaric deciesion happenes by some muslims in the world or critices islam from what they think islam teach
they never tried to understand our view first , then criticies or discuss it with us then try to show us why we wrong
evey time i see criticising for islam , i find my self need to correct thier views first , i find myself need to show them that they be misinformed or misunderstood or be confused
it never exceed this stage to discuss the correct view of islam which muslims themselfs believe in . that's killing me
everyone hate islam and muslims and quran while thier knowledge about islam is very tiny and this tiny knowledge are focused in false and dark view about islam
sorry for my long speech , i felt that i needed to say that
I think that the OP was trying to get at is that religion is all the same in the sense that they all teach peace.
I also feel that he might be saying that all religions are the way. Meaning you wont go to hell or be reincarnated to a bug if you dont believe in that specific religion.
What do you mean by every religion is not the same?
Meaning every religion is not the same, Christians believe in Jesus being God, Muslims believe in Allah, etc. There is a difference in the center of what a person believes. Christians don't believe in Allah, and so forth.
Well said elwill... May Allah bless you for your patience
Here's a link about the miracles of Azan...don't know if you've seen this before...Its all about how not a moment goes by but the call to prayer sounds somewhere in the world..Subhanallah!
you dont have to be the smartest person in the world to see it each religion is the same ,but for whatever reason somethings were change by whom or what. they all points to reaching heaven or in some case a higher plain of life with god. but if you think for yourself and not be brainwashed into gang thinking you can see where each religion got it wrong . god dont need use to kill to get his word out so why war over it the word will always be .so believe me when i say if there a god there a devil or what ever you call it war against each other keeps us here and not seeing the truth, believing in god not men sill quest for power and control this happen in the world in the past and is happening over again but can we get it right fight for god not the diffence in men .if you dont believe in that .then god was wrong about giving everybody different langauges and i dont think god was wrong .
be prepared for along one...im going to give you not only my theory but how this revelation came to me...and forgive the format...i tend to write as if i were speaking to you in person
well even at a young age ive been very....i want to say insightful.. i remember at the age of 7 discussing religious matters intelligently with my sundayschool teachers and pastors..as i got older i developed an ability to actually stump these people..and as i grew even more i developed an ability to not only stump them but to actually give personal opinions which they somtimes would agree to..ive never been afraid to question though i did considered myself a christian..which i don't limit myself to anymore...but as the title implies i do believe in all religion....but one sunday in the highschool sundayschool class of my church we were discussing the different denominations in christianity...the teacher explained that their were so many different denominations because people interpreted the word of god differently but they all believe in christ as their savior and therefor will go to heaven..and i thought as a kid you don't get to pick which church you go to..and you don't really get the full interpretation of your specific church..then i came up with the question...if their are so many different denominations how can we be sure that our denomination, which was evangelical, is the closest to being right...he explained that many people go to many different churches before they find the one that suits them best...then he said all the denominations as christians believe in the most important part...and are right...meaning every non christian is wrong....this was sounded surprisingly ignorant to me..because i more or less believed the same thing..but hearing it in those words made me unsettled...i asked isn't it ignorant to assume our beliefs are right and everyone else's are wrong..i mean they must have good reason to believe in what they do ..just as we do...whose to say that our reasons are better then theirs...he said to believe in something you must be sure it is right..and to admit the possibility that a different belief could be right makes your own belief weak...he then talked about the religion of bah'ai mocking its belief that every religion is right..saying it was impossible...since religions directly contradict eachother...this is when i lost trust in church ... i remember saying i believe in christ...just not church..so i still saw myself as a christian i just figured that the churches got it wrong...then i went through my "dark ages" not caring about beliefs what so ever...i figured i still believed in christ so i will go to heaven anyways and the beliefs that surrounded that didn't matter..once in a while id have a revelation on something but nothing to significant..but then after a few years i dated this girl....and i was at her house one night chillin with her mom...i thought she was so cool because she'd smoke pot with us...i learned how she too believed in christ...but she was more of a half n half christian and buddhist...she was a very spiritual lady and when she would talk ...it would sometimes seem like my thoughts were flowing through her mouth ..it was not like she could finish my sentences..she could say the thoughts in my head probono before i could ..she opened up my mind..and after many discussions with her i developed my own set of beliefs(i will post it in another thread)..i made connection after connection..i went so deep most of you can never dream of achieving...i realized there was a truth out there that needed to be grasped..one idea i found was that i can't discredit anyones beliefs for their beliefs were founded by their personal experiences ...and i could not say my personal experiences were in anyway more enlightening...and maybe in some cases their experiences could possibly more enlightening then mine...so slowly i immersed myself in study...first i studied buddhism and all asian philosophies in general ..i was really intrigued by the fact that most of my beliefs were expressed through these and ive never looked into them before....then i studied islam...and i realized...not only was the christian god the same as the jewish god..but so was islam's and just like christianity was an addition to judaism islam was an addition to christianity...there is one quote in the Qur'an that i really liked...it said christians jews and muslims and any god fearing person can go to heaven..this was surprising because this was right around 911 when i read it.. .i then looked into the similarities of these 3 monotheistic religions...and the list is staggering....then i looked into prophets such as nostrodamus and edgar cayce among others ...and the customs and ideals of the myans and hopi indians and other isolated cultures .....and realized as well as many others have that these cultures and prophets of different times and isolated places of the earth ...have said at times the exact same thing...almost if they have read the same "book of life"...and what was really scary...is that my own revelations intertwined with what they said...then i had an epiphany not only are everyones beliefs not discredible but everyones beliefs are actually from the same source....just at different levels of consciousness..and every religion is the same..the differences arouse by different cultures interpreting the same information differently...i think of it as being like a rainbow...somewhere along the path the white light(the one truth) passed through a prism..and was separated...the colors are different...but they all are apart of the white light
now i know that i may have not made any valuable connections in your mind..i think those are for you to make..and i would have to write about a million page essay on my findings and why the are relevant and how they connect with eachother for you to fully understand.which i doubt hardly anyone has read this even in its entirety..but i want you to know there is truth..and knowledge out there that you must explore..research..study..go as deep as you can and never stop
Try this! Just break your longer posts down into paragraphs, like so:
"well even at a young age ive been very....i want to say insightful.. i remember at the age of 7 discussing religious matters intelligently with my sundayschool teachers and pastors..as i got older i developed an ability to actually stump these people..and as i grew even more i developed an ability to not only stump them but to actually give personal opinions which they somtimes would agree to..
ive never been afraid to question though i did considered myself a christian..which i don't limit myself to anymore...but as the title implies i do believe in all religion....
but one sunday in the highschool sundayschool class of my church we were discussing the different denominations in christianity...the teacher explained that their were so many different denominations because people interpreted the word of god differently but they all believe in christ as their savior and therefor will go to heaven..
and i thought as a kid you don't get to pick which church you go to..and you don't really get the full interpretation of your specific church..then i came up with the question...if their are so many different denominations how can we be sure that our denomination, which was evangelical, is the closest to being right...
he explained that many people go to many different churches before they find the one that suits them best...then he said all the denominations as christians believe in the most important part...and are right...meaning every non christian is wrong....this was sounded surprisingly ignorant to me..because i more or less believed the same thing..but hearing it in those words made me unsettled..."
Otherwise, lead on. It's certainly a bit much for my aging and inagile mind to take on, but then I couldn't even begin to read it; my eyes kept getting lost in the pile of words!
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