Religion: Christianity & relationship with God.

I have muslim friends and they are peaceful. You need to experience the worlds, experience the culture, and experience the people. People need to stop generalizing about people. Yeah, at first, Muslims does scared me, but ever since college, I grown away from the mind set.

Extreme Christian scares me now. Chasing me down the street and telling me that I am going to Hell. WTF, you don't know me.

 

Umm, I only blame the baptists for half of it. The other half is science/logic.

But honestly, Muslim doctrine is amazing! I mean, it's like budhism in the peaceful aspect, and it teaches them to be modest.

 

That doesn't exactly mean they're right or wrong.

Let's say that they are right, in how to get to Heaven and all that fun stuff. In that case, you could possibly go to Hell for not doing the things required to get to Heaven. So, depending if they're right or not, they might not need to know you. I'm not saying they're right or wrong, and I'm not saying you are going to Heaven or Hell for sure. I'm just saying it's a possibility.

 

Eh, Heaven and Hell is overrated anyways. xD. J/k. But it get on my nerves. When I tell them that I am Buddhist, their faces are in a shock and disappoint. Don't attack me and I won't attack you.

 

I have some friends who are Buddhist. Although one of them said that Buddism isn't exactly a religion. It's more of a teaching of conduct. And he said he liked Buddism because you can be a Buddhist and keep whatever religion you have.

 

Here I am one of your friends, I am a peaceful guy. I never get angry at others, I usually just let things go and laugh back on them in future.
More to the point, I am Islamic. Even though I probably act more of an atheist, nevertheless, I am still Islamic here.
Consider the fact there are also more than one kind of Islamic group just like there are more than one kind of Christian group. Also consider the fact that people cannot be completely judged by their religion.

I hang out with people from different parts of the world all with different religions. Now I don't really care much about it but I do respect their ideologies about their own religion and will not argue with them and they will do the same for me. For example, the Jewish guy can't eat pork related products, no one offers him anything like it, occasionally an accident when someone would be sharing half a ham sandwich but he'll happily refuse and the person offering would just realise and apologise.

 

I consider Buddhism as a religion because it is deprive from Hinduism.

 

Actually you should listen to them and trying to ignore things that would not work well with your Religion.

I'm one of your friend and I'm a muslim. And like what Rawr said, consider the fact that people cannot be completely judged by their religion.

 

judging people by religion is a big no-no.
different people have different beliefs.
example, i believe in 3 square meals a day...maybe 4.

 

And why shouldn't I listen to Science/logic?

What happened to you in the first place?

And religion really doesn't have to do how a person acts - or... rather, it depends whether the person takes the religion's teachings to heart or not.

 

religion is a classified judgement of a shared belief on a certain people. Not a discrimination, but a mere classification. logic and science are not in the same either, science is the study of what is here on this planet, were as logic is the common sense we all posses (to a degree. Some posses more than others).

But a person's beliefs are not a religion at all, for emotion can't be classified, or rather it is harder to classify. A belief is something we feel outside of flesh and bone, something that we think as well as feel. Were as our thoughts of beliefs are a mere filter into our true beliefs, beliefs are more than you and me, but what we truly are. No matter our opinion, we can not truly change ourselves and what lies in us.
Like a chemical equation/reaction. We start with the same amount of chemicals when the reaction begins, and even though the chemicals physical appearances change and their compounds are motified do to the reaction, you still have the exact same type/amount of chemicals at the end of the reaction.
Example:

 

I agree.
religion doesn't define us as people, its our being/soul and they way we act as people which defines us.
I'm christian, but I don't practice my religion, its more just... a faith, some semi-spiritual belief.
I don't know why people judge others on religion, you should look past that and see how good a person they are before making judgments.
All in all, I seriously dunno why there's conflict between religions anyway, aren't we all on this earth, so shouldn't we at least get along?

 

Science is simply the application of logic to better understand and classify the world around us. Religion is the application of faith to better understand and classify the world around us. Were people to generally to forget the story of the bible and just accept that most of the tenets it tries to convey are benevolent in intention, then maybe the world would not be in such a state. Unfortunately everyone tends to get so wound up over pointless nuances.

A person's beliefs does not necessarily constitute religion, true. Yet Religion is comprised of people's beliefs. The rest of that paragraph is a little murky so I won't attempt to interpret that. As for the last sentence, I would say our opinions along with our actions make up a large part of "What lies in us". People however contrary to what you say, do change. All the time people have epiphany's, discover different ways of thinking and have experiences which alter their way of thinking. That, if anything, is truly changing who we are, whatever the magnitude of change may be.

 

No, that's what you get when influential individuals realize how much of a gold mine exploiting cults and religions can be. Almost the complete opposite of what I said.