I
imamartian
i strongly believe that religion has too high a prominence in the world order today..
(i'm really after the record for the thread locked the soonest
)
My problem is... how to characterise us... well at the highest known level , we are all human beings, homo sapiens..
And if we try to qualify this, we are very different, not only in colour, but in general physiology.... eyes, size, facial aspects...etc etc....
oh and then there is religion... not exactly relevant here (in my book).. as anyone, black, white, big, small, can be a christian or a muslim, or catholic, or jehovas..
but to me, that doesn't define us... so why do we talk about muslims and terror, or why do we have "faith schools"... or more importantly, why are so many wars about religion?
i'm an atheist, so i think i'm free from the shackles that restricts so much of the well being of this planet.. people panic in the face of the unknown... and what bigger unknown than... who created us? and this ends up as..."let's all have a different god".....
We all need to accept that what ever culture we come from, we are all undoubtedly from the same petri dish of some higher power....
it doesn't matter if it has three eyes, or was born on the back of a goat.... it is ultimately looking down and thinking..."whoops!"
Religion needs to be a description of a person in the same way that you would describe a person as being "a Man U fan", or, "into country music", or "drives a volvo".... the definition being that a person can change their religion.... or denounce it altogether....
(i'm really after the record for the thread locked the soonest
)My problem is... how to characterise us... well at the highest known level , we are all human beings, homo sapiens..
And if we try to qualify this, we are very different, not only in colour, but in general physiology.... eyes, size, facial aspects...etc etc....
oh and then there is religion... not exactly relevant here (in my book).. as anyone, black, white, big, small, can be a christian or a muslim, or catholic, or jehovas..
but to me, that doesn't define us... so why do we talk about muslims and terror, or why do we have "faith schools"... or more importantly, why are so many wars about religion?
i'm an atheist, so i think i'm free from the shackles that restricts so much of the well being of this planet.. people panic in the face of the unknown... and what bigger unknown than... who created us? and this ends up as..."let's all have a different god".....
We all need to accept that what ever culture we come from, we are all undoubtedly from the same petri dish of some higher power....
it doesn't matter if it has three eyes, or was born on the back of a goat.... it is ultimately looking down and thinking..."whoops!"
Religion needs to be a description of a person in the same way that you would describe a person as being "a Man U fan", or, "into country music", or "drives a volvo".... the definition being that a person can change their religion.... or denounce it altogether....
