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A Big Debate for the New Century — Page 4

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Originally posted by: greencapt
Cannibalism is a religious view? I thought it was just a tasty food alternative!


Just be sure to pull a Swift and make gloves and hats out of the skin of the prepubescent "appetizers."
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to jedi sage:

i agree with you alot of people would disagree with me. it is true that some of the stories int eh bible might have some historical foundation however thats all they would have. ill give you an example, there was a program on just a little while ago about noahs ark they used science and known history to look at the story objectively. what they concluded was that there was no global flood but a huge regional flood, and that noah was a really man but the ideas of him gathering up all the animals and such was greatly exagerated. given the previous i would say that the story lost its historical use and became a great tale that tells people about the nature of human beings.

as the for cursades, sry i will do some reading into that, i learned and always thought that the cursades where started inorder to retake the holyland and bring jeruselum under chirstian power.

for my last words you misinpterpted me. what i was getting at was the fact that two majour religions e.g. christianity and islam, fight so much over there beliefs, but when you look at both of the beliefs systems the differences are only skin deep. they have exactly the same values like give to the poor take care of you family be good to you fellow human beings, yet the fight so much and for what, to prove that theres is right.
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Originally posted by: Shimraa
to jedi sage:

for my last words you misinpterpted me. what i was getting at was the fact that two majour religions e.g. christianity and islam, fight so much over there beliefs, but when you look at both of the beliefs systems the differences are only skin deep. they have exactly the same values like give to the poor take care of you family be good to you fellow human beings, yet the fight so much and for what, to prove that theres is right.


I think that in today's day and age, there's way too much emphasis on melding people's beliefs into one universal belief system. Yes, the major religions do have much in common (Islam recognizes the divinity of certain figures from the Judeo-Christian faith, for example), yet there is much more different. The unfortunate part of trying to concentrate only on the similarities is that most people who point out the vast differences are labeled as being intolerant. Is fighting ever a good thing? No. Is being coerced into believing something you don't believe right? No. Is tolerance a good thing? Yes, however as long as "tolerance" is not really a demand of acceptance couched as tolerance. The differences are FAR from being skin deep.

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what i mean when i say skin deep is take away all the stories and histories of each major religion and look at the fundimentals that each is preaching. like being good to your fellow man. and they are all extremely similar if not the same. you can take a step back from there and include the storys told about noah and othe events they appear all over the place. in islam christ was a prophet so was moses. thats what i am getting at.

and i dont know if this is what you meant but i think that melding the beliefs of the world into one is fantasic.
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Originally posted by: Shimraa
what i mean when i say skin deep is take away all the stories and histories of each major religion and look at the fundimentals that each is preaching. like being good to your fellow man. and they are all extremely similar if not the same. you can take a step back from there and include the storys told about noah and othe events they appear all over the place. in islam christ was a prophet so was moses. thats what i am getting at.

and i dont know if this is what you meant but i think that melding the beliefs of the world into one is fantasic.


No...I should have been more clear. Sorry. You did not do this. It is going on in many places. The UN Parliament of World Religions, for instance, was a frightening thing.

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