RamaRaksha
*banned*
Does it take someone to be discriminated before they get enlightened?
When ISIS was condemning and killing christians, every newspaper here called them pure evil - why is what ISIS is doing wrong? Because we should not condemn people based on religion? But wait, isn't that what the two dominant religions teach? That God's realm is for "his" people only, everyone else gets hell? Atheists, Hindus, Buddhists blatantly condemned for their religion and dumped into hell!
Isn't ISIS an islamic organisation? Isn't common sense to realize that they are getting their ideas from what the majority religion is preaching? But the western media never went there - they were happy and content to isolate ISIS
A lot of muslims are being discriminated here in the US - they, rightly, condemn such discrimination based on their religion. We get - "one should not judge people by religion, underneath we are all the same, human beings with loved ones, families, hopes and aspirations like everyone else etc etc" - pardon me but aren't Atheists human beings? Don't Hindus have families, loved ones? Don't people of other religions also have aspirations and hopes like everyone else? But yet all these people should be dumped into hell based on their religion? Judged because of their religion?
But just because someone is discriminated that doesn't mean he or she will not turn around and abuse others. We see that with muslims - go to countries where they dominate and you see rampant discrimination based on religion. Atheists, Gays living in fear for their lives. People of minority religions living as 2nd class citizens - at any moment branded as blasphemers and burned to death!
I see a new movie coming out about Jesse Owens and the ads all speak the same language of the discriminated-enlightened - skin color doesn't matter, we are all the same underneath etc etc. An African-American colleague of mine, who i thought was my friend, the very same person who if discriminated because of his skin color would be very offended, and who i am sure has faced racism in this country, had no problem telling me that i was going to go to hell. He had no problem with blatant religious discrimination - happy to enforce it as long as he was on the other side
Sadly, the moral i have learned is that though a person may get enlightened when discriminated, it doesn't mean that he or she will apply it in other situations - back to being the majority, back to a situation where there is no discrimination and the abuse and hate come rushing back
When ISIS was condemning and killing christians, every newspaper here called them pure evil - why is what ISIS is doing wrong? Because we should not condemn people based on religion? But wait, isn't that what the two dominant religions teach? That God's realm is for "his" people only, everyone else gets hell? Atheists, Hindus, Buddhists blatantly condemned for their religion and dumped into hell!
Isn't ISIS an islamic organisation? Isn't common sense to realize that they are getting their ideas from what the majority religion is preaching? But the western media never went there - they were happy and content to isolate ISIS
A lot of muslims are being discriminated here in the US - they, rightly, condemn such discrimination based on their religion. We get - "one should not judge people by religion, underneath we are all the same, human beings with loved ones, families, hopes and aspirations like everyone else etc etc" - pardon me but aren't Atheists human beings? Don't Hindus have families, loved ones? Don't people of other religions also have aspirations and hopes like everyone else? But yet all these people should be dumped into hell based on their religion? Judged because of their religion?
But just because someone is discriminated that doesn't mean he or she will not turn around and abuse others. We see that with muslims - go to countries where they dominate and you see rampant discrimination based on religion. Atheists, Gays living in fear for their lives. People of minority religions living as 2nd class citizens - at any moment branded as blasphemers and burned to death!
I see a new movie coming out about Jesse Owens and the ads all speak the same language of the discriminated-enlightened - skin color doesn't matter, we are all the same underneath etc etc. An African-American colleague of mine, who i thought was my friend, the very same person who if discriminated because of his skin color would be very offended, and who i am sure has faced racism in this country, had no problem telling me that i was going to go to hell. He had no problem with blatant religious discrimination - happy to enforce it as long as he was on the other side
Sadly, the moral i have learned is that though a person may get enlightened when discriminated, it doesn't mean that he or she will apply it in other situations - back to being the majority, back to a situation where there is no discrimination and the abuse and hate come rushing back
