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Why is it so important for you to claim your belief is the only true belief?

metis

aged ecumenical anthropologist
But why is it so dang important to "prove" to others your belief is the "exact truth" and anyone who claim different belief is a liar, fake, falls or even i heard someone call others evil for believeing differently than them self......
I don't.
 

Aupmanyav

Be your own guru
so......you have no spiritual life....after death
Yeah, according to my belief, there is no physical or spiritual life after death. We live only once. What constitutes our body is chemically recycled by nature. You can take that as coming into a new life.
 

alypius

Active Member
Not sure i understand your question from a religious point of view in this OP.
But to answer, if we know b looking at the different planets that Mars is the fourth planet from the sun, it is not a selfish way to give an answer no. (this belong more within science, and that is not my field of understanding)

If someone is convinced that a religious teaching is revealed by God, then might it not be selfish if that person claims it is true?
 

Spirit of Light

Be who ever you want
If someone is convinced that a religious teaching is revealed by God, then might it not be selfish if that person claims it is true?
It could, but does not have to be selfish, it depend on how they say it. Example saying "in my understanding the teaching is true to me" that does mean others are free to believe it or disbelieve it.

But if a person say "This teaching is true because i comes from God, So no other teaching can be true and they are evil" that might lean toward a selfish statement, (in my understanding)
 

Marcion

gopa of humanity's controversial Taraka Brahma
Sitting here early morning pondering about posts in RF i been reading lately, where people claim that their religious belief is the only correct, and everyone else is fake or falls or even evil :confused:

I am not going to sitt here telling you that my own sufi faith is better or more correct that any of what you belive, because the belief i hold in Sufism is a personal path and belief that arise from within. And even i did in the past (before becoming a sufi) as many others, claimed i had the truth, i proven to my self time and time again i did not hold the truth.....

But why is it so dang important to "prove" to others your belief is the "exact truth" and anyone who claim different belief is a liar, fake, falls or even i heard someone call others evil for believeing differently than them self......

What has happend to spiritual/religious people? Isnt religion supposed to take away our ego and selfishness?
I think it is nearly impossible to change someone with a fundamentalist religious way of thinking into someone with a more univeral spiritual way of thinking. But I have seen someone change from fundamentalist religious into fundamentalist atheist on another forum.

I'm not sure why it is so difficult for these people to make the switch.
 

Bree

Active Member
Sitting here early morning pondering about posts in RF i been reading lately, where people claim that their religious belief is the only correct, and everyone else is fake or falls or even evil :confused:

I am not going to sitt here telling you that my own sufi faith is better or more correct that any of what you belive, because the belief i hold in Sufism is a personal path and belief that arise from within. And even i did in the past (before becoming a sufi) as many others, claimed i had the truth, i proven to my self time and time again i did not hold the truth.....

But why is it so dang important to "prove" to others your belief is the "exact truth" and anyone who claim different belief is a liar, fake, falls or even i heard someone call others evil for believeing differently than them self......

What has happend to spiritual/religious people? Isnt religion supposed to take away our ego and selfishness?

My pondering is still going on :oops:

What if there is only 1 path to God?
 
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