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Excellent composition! I believe we would be better off if everyone lived like Jesus did. sam
posted by
sam444
on March 27, 2008 at 1:36 PM
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Well presented essay on a very clear principle of Christianity that is most
often overlooked-- Christ addressed exactly this in the Gospels when the smart-ass rich dude asked him, "who exactly is my neighbor", and Christ went on to talk about the holy men that not only trotted right buy a man beaten, robbed and wounded in a ditch, but CROSSED THE STREET away from the man. Exclusion is NOT the message of the gospel, yet look at how many have ignored this over the centuries. Excellent post, gomedome.
posted by
FineYoungSinger
on March 27, 2008 at 1:00 PM
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vogue - in a very real sense, some religious messages promote intolerance
posted by
gomedome
on March 27, 2008 at 9:53 AM
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What I hate most is a lack of tolerance. Unfortunately, it seems to spread.
posted by
vogue
on March 27, 2008 at 9:08 AM
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hagi - I can agree that there is an awkwardness element but don't see the
analogy you use.
Items that are visible to the eye, as the ones you describe, do not rely on a belief in them to verify their existence. The awkwardness, I feel comes from two sources; social conditioning in that organized religions have depicted the non believer in a negative light since their inception and from natural human behavior. The latter being an inherent part of our makeup as humans to develop prejudices towards things we may not fully understand.
The strange part of this prejudice is that due to the social conditioning aspect, it is almost entirely one way. Believers have inherent prejudices against non believers, the reverse is almost non existent.
posted by
gomedome
on March 27, 2008 at 7:15 AM
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I think that people who really truly believe in God feel awkward thinking of others who don't believe in their God. It's kinda scary, you know. I'd feel really weird, if I met somebody who believed that my head (or my table, or my clothes ;)) doesn't exist and my "belief" in existence of these things should be tolerated as long as I didn't impose it on others.
To put it in a nutshell, I think religious people are so zealous in spreading the word in order to have more people who believe in their dream. 'Couse it makes them less crazy.
posted by
hagi
on March 27, 2008 at 12:35 AM
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