anti- religion, but not anti- faith Options

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i am strongly against religion - it has currupted beliefs.

throughout the years, it is known religious leaders have altered the bible and other religious texts to suit their own need and to insure power over the people; who is to know what is true and what is absolutely fiction

but i am not anti-faith, for my faith in god is strong.

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FALSE.

Islam, Judaism and Christianity are in the same family, but Buddhism and Hinduism originated independently.

These are some of the notes from the class I'm taking right now.

Hinduism:
- earliest evidence dates back as far as 3000 BCE
- no founder, single teacher, nor prophets
- not a single unified religion
- universal soul or God called Brahman
- Expressions of their God: Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva
- existence is a cycle of birth, death and rebirth, governed by Karma
- sacred writings: the Vedas and the Upanishads
- holy city: Varanasi

Buddhism:
- 2,500 years old
- founded by Siddartha Gautama (born 580 BCE) in India
- path to Enlightenment is practice of morality, meditation and wisdom
- atheistic, tolerant toward different beliefs
- change always possible
- all life is interconnected, compassion is natural and important
- no holy cities
- no holy texts

There's a lot more, of course, but those are just the highlights. They have absolutely no connection with any of the references in the Bible.

WTF is it with you guys and your damn bible slamming. Who said ANYTHING about the Bible making these claims. Or having connections with the Bible?

You guys have a lot of studying to do when it comes to religion as a whole

All religions, INCLUDING Buddhism and Hinduism are related in such ways; spiritual righteousness, enlightenment, divinity, morality etc...

I even did a quick little google search for you:

http://www.geocities.com/cwynne19/doors/dtch02.html

If that's not good enough get the book, "The Science Of Religion"

If you don't want to learn a scientific/historical view of Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism, then that's fine.

And yet, Hinduism's (or at least primary Hindu scripture's) teachings aren't so far off from that of the Bible or the Qu'ran. Hindu teachings are in fact older (much older) than Christianity's, so it may actually be that Christianity would be a sprout from Hinduism. Thing is, probably didn't actually "sprout" from Hinduism, but was just a teaching from a different region of the world, rather.

As for Buddhism, it's kind of like Hinduism. Except, Buddhists would worship the sun's energy while Hindus would worship the sun itself. (That's an analogy now, let's not take that literally.)

Agreed!

You know how you mentioned the energy of the sun? I meditate to the sun. It's called Sun Gazing. It fills your mind/body/spirit with energy through your eyes. I only do it on sunset

edit: By the way, as of now I'm learning the teachings of
Bahá'u'lláh. Which agrees with all apostles/prophets/divine figures such as: Krishna, Moses, Buddha, Jesus, and Muhammad.

What? Can you explain this part? How are Buddhism and Hinduism involved in this?

Ah I see what you meant, you guys thought I was speaking that all religions derive from Abraham :x

As far as Abraham, it's just Islam, Christianity, and Judaism.

Then you have Buddhism and Hinduism as religions as well but not of Abraham.

Sorry for not fully explaining myself.

This post has been edited by Arjuna Capulong: Jul 1 2007, 07:20 PM