What one thing should non-believers know about your religion?

[Me Myself]

Cherry picking is actually very advisable. You are able to not eat the poisonous stuff or the stuff that is past due it´s ripping time. Likewise, some beliefs have just become ripe, and we can now eat them too!

It´s good to take the best from every garden :drool:

 

[dyanaprajna2011]

There's a few that really bugs me, and Magog has pointed out one of them already. I guess another one would be that, just because Buddhists believe that life is dukkha (suffering, unsatisfactory), that doesn't make us pessimistic nihilists. Another one would be, just because Buddhism is a religion, doesn't mean we worship a god or gods. We're, practically, atheists, although non-theistic would be a better term. The Buddha was not a god, a prophet of a god, or semi-divine.

I would like to make clear that I don't think that nihilists are pessimists, to most nihilists, the idea is liberating. I do realize that there is a difference between pessimism and nihilism, and the two can sometimes be mutually exclusive.

 

[Vinayaka]

It's vast, a polar opposite to Abrahamism, and grossly misunderstood. Sorry, that''s 3. Maybe I should start a thread.

 

[Gjallarhorn]

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[pagan_david]

I do not paint myself blue and fight to the death over everything.

 

[Noaidi]

I do not paint myself blue and fight to the death over everything.

That was the Picts (and a very poor Mel Gibson)

 

[Noaidi]

Atheism is not a religion.

 

[Flankerl]

Jesus and/or Mohammed are not part of our religion.

 

[Storm]

I do not paint myself blue and fight to the death over everything.

Booooooooring!

 

[idav]

Pantheism is not sexed up atheism!! Unless you want it to be.

 

[Infinitum]

Not all followers of the Left-Hand Path are angsty teenagers who dress in black and burn Bibles. Some you wouldn't even notice on the street, let alone hear them start a conversation about their religion.

 

[The Sum of Awe]

I am not pessimistic, nor am I Emo, I literally am just looking at reality in its dull, realistic, and objective form, with no emotions or adjectives to describe reality.

 

[loverOfTruth]

All of us deal with others' misconceptions in all sorts of ways. If you had to correct one misconception about your religion/faith/belief system/philosophy, what's the one thing about your beliefs that you would want other people to know?

Oh boy ... where do I start ?

Can I just provide this ?
The Simple Message of GOD: A Catholic's Request: Dispelling the lies about Islam

Peace.

 

[Twig pentagram]

Luciferians and Satanist are not the same.

 

[seeking4truth]

That Islam teaches violence and intolerance.

 

[The Sum of Awe]

That Islam teaches violence and intolerance.

intolerance of intolerance

 

[hindupridemn]

that Hinduism is polytheistic and sanctions abuses of the caste system

that all Jains are masochistic ascetics

that Baha'is try to convert people against their will

that Mormons try to convert people against their will

 

[Syrokal]

That Hindus worship statues

 

[AdityaMookerjee]

All of us deal with others' misconceptions in all sorts of ways. If you had to correct one misconception about your religion/faith/belief system/philosophy, what's the one thing about your beliefs that you would want other people to know?

What is religion and belief? I don't want the non believer to believe that my belief is not a belief. Then, he will have no differences. It seems, it is not unnatural for any belief, for anyone, and if there is, then the person who disbelieves, in anything, cannot perhaps consider that he or she can believe. The idea of disbelief in religion is that the disbeliever does not believe in anything, that is why he has issues with religion. He doesn't care about telling people he disbelieves anything else, because religion is either easy or difficult for him to tell others he disbelieves, generally. A person who believes in science, doesn't care about disbelieving religion. But the disbeliever does believe that he disbelieves, which is the most important belief. We, as humans are happy with what we are, and we don't want to change. We don't change, and we want to feel, that we are not changing. How? We see ourselves as not, by deliberation. If a person who disbelieves remains so, he is in a precarious situation, in the scenario.

 

[Klerkie]

Daoism is not the American/European interpretation of itself. It is not entirely passive. It's not the same thing as Buddhism, nor Confucianism. It does not promote anarchy. Research before you perceive, and learn that Wikipedia is not a very reliable source although it can be helpful.