Folks from Other Religions

What does your religion teach about other religions?

What does it teach about what will happen to folks from those other religions in the afterlife?

What does it teach about folks from other religions living among you if yours is the dominant religion?

Sri Ramakrishna, who is considered by many to have been an incarnation of God, said this:

Those who realize God are liberated, regardless of their religious path. They then have the option to remain in samsara (the cycle of rebirth) to help others, or they remain as Brahman.

Rival said:

What does your religion teach about other religions?

What does it teach about what will happen to folks from those other religions in the afterlife?

What does is teach about folks from other religions living among you if yours is the dominant religion?

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My religion doesn't really address those issues...

However, I believe there is a system of reincarnation in effect

But I don't believe how one is reincarnated is effected by what exactly one believes

Rival said:

What does your religion teach about other religions?

What does it teach about what will happen to folks from those other religions in the afterlife?

What does it teach about folks from other religions living among you if yours is the dominant religion?

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I think what I learned is religion is an interpretation. An abstract.

Rival said:

What does your religion teach about other religions?

What does it teach about what will happen to folks from those other religions in the afterlife?

What does it teach about folks from other religions living among you if yours is the dominant religion?

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To live and let live.
Everyone reincarnates.
To live and let live, and to provide safe haven if they're persecuted elsewhere.

There is no monopoly on "truth." Attachment, including to "Buddhism" is a problem, rather than any genuine search for truth. It is for the individual to realise the truth of our living. The Buddha offered a Garmin. Other satnavs are available.

"In this many spherical world, whichever sphere the beings touch or find, that they stick to and use (as truth), saying “this only is true, the rest is false”. Thus there is no agreement among religious people on theories, morality, will and goal.”

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What does your religion teach about other religions?

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1) There is 1 Religion, the Religion of Love

All major Religions have Love at their core

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That problem does not exist

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What does it teach about folks from other religions living among you if yours is the dominant religion?

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Be alike to everyone
Love All Serve All
Hurt Never Help Ever

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it doesn't, that is a judgment entirely left to God alone.

pearl said:

it doesn't, that is a judgment entirely left to God alone.

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The Catholic Church
Catholic Church and Judaism

Rival said:

What does your religion teach about other religions?
What does it teach about what will happen to folks from those other religions in the afterlife?
What does it teach about folks from other religions living among you if yours is the dominant religion?

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It does not (teach about other religions).
If they are nice people, helped others and did not pain others, they will go to heaven.
Do not try to interfere in what they believe. That is the reason since the Jews arrived in India some 2,500 years, any religion that came to India (Christianity and Islam within 50 years of Jesus' or Mohammad's time), lived in peace and prosperity along with Hindus, without any restrictions.

Mad glad William Blake said it better than I could...


The Religions of all Nations are derived from each Nations different reception of the Poetic Genius which is every where call’d the Spirit of Prophecy


As all men are alike (tho’ infintiely various) So all Religions & as all similar have one source The true Man is the source he being the Poetic Genius

All religions are paths to Divinity as there are many rivers that lead to the sea.

RestlessSoul said:

The Religions of all Nations are derived from each Nations different reception of the Poetic Genius which is every where call’d the Spirit of Prophecy
As all men are alike (tho’ infintiely various) So all Religions & as all similar have one source The true Man is the source he being the Poetic Genius

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Yeah, people of his time considered him mad. He had his views. What was this "True man" thing that he talked about?

Rival said:

What does your religion teach about other religions?

What does it teach about what will happen to folks from those other religions in the afterlife?

What does it teach about folks from other religions living among you if yours is the dominant religion?

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My faith teaches me to welcome everyone that upholds peace and civility. Regardless of someone's personal faith, if they keep the peace I will treat them with the same respect as I treat members of my own community. The problem is, though, that there are religions that I fully believe do not teach peacekeeping, and so many (but certainly not all) members of that faith violate it by trying to infringe on the rights and will of others and spread harm and misinformation, or at least outwardly support and promote leaders and legislature that do, with their faith's teachings as backing. These individuals I just cannot respect, and do not welcome into my space.

As for the afterlife, I do not believe our beliefs in life have any bearing on where we end up, and I do not believe in any punishments or rewards. Most of us end up going to the same place (with a few exceptions based on deeds in life, e.g. Valhalla).

SalixIncendium said:

Those who realize God are liberated, regardless of their religious path. They then have the option to remain in samsara (the cycle of rebirth) to help others, or they remain as Brahman.

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What are the differences between these last two options? Other than continuing to reincarnate (via rebirth) in samsara.

Does having an Enlightenment or Gods experience/realization, and choosing to use that experience to guide others from their suffering a form of muddying ones souls?

What makes the Brahman different? Are they not allowed to help others out of their cycles of rebirth?

Aupmanyav said:

Yeah, people of his time considered him mad. He had his views. What was this "True man" thing that he talked about?

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Yeah, he had visions from an early age - he was a schoolboy when he came home and told his mother he had seen 9 angels sitting in a tree. Like Joan of Arc, his visions might easily be considered hallucinations by some. But can we call a man mad, who functions in the world, who created great works of art, and who loved and was loved by his friends and family? I’d say not. Eccentric definitely, inspired beyond doubt. Insane, well, who can say.

I couldn’t give you chapter and verse of his beliefs I’m afraid; he was a Christian mystic, but Christian in the loosest sense. I think the True Man refers to man in his exalted state, before The Fall. The Poetic Genius is the word of God as God addresses humans - think The Holy Spirit appearing to the apostles, or Krishna revealing himself to Arjuna in the BG.

Not sure how much he would have known about Eastern religious thought - he was entirely self educated. But there are references to Hinduism in some of his poetry and painting.

Rival said:

What does your religion teach about other religions?

What does it teach about what will happen to folks from those other religions in the afterlife?

What does it teach about folks from other religions living among you if yours is the dominant religion?

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Christianity holds that it is the fullness of truth, but it doesn't deny that other religions can contain truth in them, as the religious sensibility itself is a God-given attribute and a yearning for something higher than oneself. The only way to the Father is through the Son, however, the person's individual circumstances are considered. So a person isn't automatically damned if they die as a non-Christian. You also have the reality that many people are not being taught or presented Christianity in a correct way or even in a very negative way that turns them against it. Those people can't be held culpable for something that they were misled about.

Personally, I lean towards universal reconciliation. Revelation clearly states that at the Eschaton, death and hell themselves will be thrown into the lake of fire (destroyed). Since souls can't be destroyed (they are immortal and apparently made of the same "stuff" that God is, as God is a spiritual entity like souls and angels are), obviously the people "in" hell or experiencing such a state won't be destroyed along with it. God wills the salvation of all beings, including the entire universe. You can even hope that Satan will be saved, too, because he is ultimately just a very wayward and lost soul trying to drag others with him (misery loves company).

RestlessSoul said:

Insane, well, who can say.
I think the True Man refers to man in his exalted state, before The Fall.
The Poetic Genius is the word of God as God addresses humans.
Not sure how much he would have known about Eastern religious thought - he was entirely self educated. But there are references to Hinduism in some of his poetry and painting.

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Yeah, who can say?
Ah, Adam and Eve thing. when they had not yet eaten the apple. Damn the apple.
Well, no word of God for me, I am a strong atheist. Not even BG or Krishna.
Hindu scriptures had not yet been translated in his time, so I do not think he knew much about Hinduism.

Hinduism doesn’t specifically speak on other religions but it accepts them as generally valid for their adherents. Islam is valid for a Muslim, Christianity for a Christian, indigenous religions for indigenous people, Hinduism for a Hindu. It’s universal only in that regard, not that they are the same or interchangeable.

Aupmanyav said:

Yeah, who can say?
Ah, Adam and Eve thing. when they had not yet eaten the apple. Damn the apple.
Well, no word of God for me, I am a strong atheist. Not even BG or Krishna.
Hindu scriptures had not yet been translated in his time, so I do not think he knew much about Hinduism.

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He was a very mystical Christian, anyway.