love your neighbour

[whirlingmerc]

Sometimes. Other times, he threatened his neighbours with Hell or attacked them with improvised weapons.

Turn over a few tables and crack a whip and you get put in a box! It was zealous for God's house, was it not?

 

[9-10ths_Penguin]

Turn over a few tables and crack a whip and you get put in a box! It was zealous for God's house, was it not?

Sure: hate can be motivated by religious zeal.

 

[Saint Frankenstein]

Does this mean that you see humanity as improving over time? So many believers tell me about ongoing the decay and decadence in everything from our lives to our genomes. They see everything as getting worse in anticipation of famines, earthquakes, wars, and rumors of wars, and seem to welcome it.

We gradually improve in various aspects of life, yes. I like to think we're improving more when it comes to ethics, certainly. I don't see it in terms of some myth of progress, though. It's more recognizing something that was always there but was overshadowed and its view was distorted. I think humans are mostly good, but fragile. We can do great things, even in our fragility.

 

[Saint Frankenstein]

Why?

Because creation and the eternal is much bigger then our petty differences. Tribalism blinds us from seeing ourselves in "the other".

 

[Tumah]

Because creation and the eternal is much bigger then our petty differences. Tribalism blinds us from seeing ourselves in "the other".

This seems to be an opinion based on a given that is not universally accepted as true rather than a reason tribalism should be silly in this day and age.

 

[Saint Frankenstein]

This seems to be an opinion based on a given that is not universally accepted as true rather than a reason tribalism should be silly in this day and age.

Well, obviously we are going to disagree about it.

 

[syo]

So, is government a religion?

religion influenced heavily the state and goverment. in god we trust. etc.

 

[syo]

What a bizarre claim. You start off saying that we should all treat one another as brothers and sisters, then end up by blaming everyone who doesn't follow your particular beliefs.

''love your neighbour'' isn't my particular belief. it is ordered by religion.

 

[leibowde84]

religion influenced heavily the state and goverment. in god we trust. etc.

That wasn't what I asked. I asked if government is a religion, according to your definition of the term religion?

 

[syo]

That wasn't what I asked. I asked if government is a religion, according to your definition of the term religion?

goverment imitates religion but it's not religion at all. religions are undeniable truth, while goverments change their values.

 

[leibowde84]

goverment imitates religion but it's not religion at all. religions are undeniable truth, while goverments change their values.

Religion couldn't be undeniable truth, though. There are countless deniers of every single religion. They aren't "undeniable truth" by any stretch of the imagination.

 

[syo]

Religion couldn't be undeniable truth, though. There are countless deniers of every single religion. They aren't "undeniable truth" by any stretch of the imagination.

people shun religion unfortunately.

 

[sayak83]

''love your neighbour'' isn't my particular belief. it is ordered by religion.

Maybe yours. Not in mine. Love can't be ordered. People are encouraged to care about all beings.

 

[syo]

Maybe yours. Not in mine. Love can't be ordered. People are encouraged to care about all beings.

orders are more straightforward.

 

[leibowde84]

people shun religion unfortunately.

So, you agree that religion cannot be undeniable truth?

 

[sayak83]

orders are more straightforward.

It's a symptom of a tyrannical religious system.

 

[syo]

So, you agree that religion cannot be undeniable truth?

because people shun it? I think people have the problem not religion. people try to degrade religion all the time.

 

[syo]

It's a symptom of a tyrannical religious system.

why tyrannical? I find it honest.

 

[sayak83]

why tyrannical? I find it honest.

There is nothing good or moral about ordering people to love others. Love is either free and spontaneous that emerges from within or its not love.

 

[QuestioningMind]

''love your neighbour'' isn't my particular belief. it is ordered by religion.

You're not making any sense. If it isn't your belief, why would you claim: 'we shun religion, that is why we suffer...'?