Morals and Beliefs

[Aglynugga]

Ahhh! Giant Golden Space Dragon wants you to be a virgin, eat plenty of spaggetti monsters!
And God knows that your parent's morality must be yours, their faith, yours, all their thoughts, must be yours. You have no intellect, that is what a father is for, to know more that you ever can, to tell you how and why to live your life. And if you disagree or argue, we shall drag you to the town's square, and there, we shall stone you to death.

 

[Shoqiyqa]

The thing about Christianity was simply an example, point being, if one follows a morality and belief system different than it and it turns out to be true, you will not be saved simply because you thought you didn't have to believe in it.

Pursuing your side-note, does that mean that this Christian god would condemn someone to eternity in hellfire for being the best Buddhist she possibly could because she honestly believed it was the right thing to do?

Well that would depend on circumstances and interpretation. This is definitely an area of debate among theologians, depending on the circumstances surrounding the situation. I will say that Christianity not about being good, it's about accepting a free gift; much simpler, actually. I'll also say that any religion requires that it be correct: the god of Christianity and the god of Islam really cannot co-exist: one is right and the other is wrong (assuming either are right to begin with). But in order not to derail the thread, that's all I'll say.

If that "free gift" is "free will" then I'm afraid I've been told the only right thing to do with it is give it straight back, which personally I'd take as an insult.

Any god that wants to punish people for having died before anyone brought a copy of some book across the pond really brings out the Gandhi [http://www.angelfire.com/me/MichelesBuffyPage/images/gandhi.wav] in me.

 

[Shoqiyqa]

I personally think that people who are ready to come to such lengths to uphold some frivelous belief, are the greatest scum of the earth. You do NOT disown family over things like this, it's both cruel to the target and manipulating.

While I agree for the most part ...

Spoiler: ... they've got a way to go to reach the extremes. Warning: perspective can cause dizziness, vertigo, nausea and a strange desire to travel thousands of miles and kill every male over 15 years old in an entire country.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1299799/Mutilated-Taliban-The-girl-18-nose-ears-hacked-trying-flee-cruel-laws.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1299799/Mutilated-Taliban-The-girl-18-nose-ears-hacked-trying-flee-cruel-laws.html

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/bs-md-child-slain-cult-20100804,0,3440094.story

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/jessica-was-screaming-as-holly-lay-in-the-bath-huntley-says-736986.html

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/the-death-of-my-friend-karen-2046693.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/nottinghamshire/3034927.stm

http://www.bnvillage.co.uk/news-politics-village/99397-one-most-horrific-crimes-imaginable.html

 

[THE M3RCENARY]

I hate it when other Christians take it way too far. If that is how they think, they should actually read the Bible for themselves and not take other peoples word because they are too lazy to open up a book to find the answer.