Critizising other Religions

[dattaswami]

Critizising other Religions

The Lord is universal but the human beings in the universe differ in their attitudes. The same single Lord adopts a different procedure in a different region and such different procedure appears as a different religion. A few criticize the Lord of other religion. You are criticizing your own Lord of your own religion. The external behavior of the Lord differs due to different internal and external behaviors of the human beings in this universe.

The external form, dress, language, food habits and culture of human beings differ from one region to the other. Accordingly the external form, dress, food habits, language and culture of the Lord also differ to suit that particular region. The internal Lord and the internal essence of the same Lord is one and the same in His different human incarnations which have come in different regions or religions.

At Thy Lotus Feet His Holiness Sri Dattaswami

Anil Antony

[Mililalil XXIV]

All need to be treated loyally and faithfully in relationships. All need to use great caution not to misuse women or be insensitive to the feelings of little ones. All need to discard lies and no one is without exception in needing to adapt their whole life to walk in the Truth, rather than expect GOD to compromise as many ways as stubborn sinners expect HIM to bow to their idols.

In some areas there is mainly irreligion. Most men I have gone to school with or worked with have been perverts of the worst kind, and most of them care nothing for any lord but each for himself as dominating a victim of his lust. Most of the above mentioned have treacherously betrayed me in ways often punishable by law, and their ways do not dovetail with the Wishes of GOD. While striving to be a friend to all, I have suffered the blows of many unprovoked enemies (mainly the majority of males I have met - most of them atheists by profession), though all of them have said I was a good man on more than one occasion. This proves that all things are not equal. At one company I worked at, the boss took out all his bitterness against GOD on me, knowing of some Miracles GOD had honored my Prayers with, and wanting to escape his own conscience by discrediting me in every possible trivial matter. If he falsely accused me of something he did, I didn't argue - yet he called me before him, in the sight of all, and demanded that I declare what I thought. He wouldn't leave alone my private thoughts, but dragged them out, then commanded me to change my mind. Because I could not make a lie of myself, he penalized me by paying new trainees more than me after 4 months than I was making after 4 years; he slandered me to every new worker a week before he let me speak to them for the first time, and ley them do nothing for more money than me as I did more than anyone else, being down-trodden the whole shift, every moment, despite already giving myself not so much as a second's breather from daylong rushing; he and the other owner tried to prevent me from working elsewhere - after 7 years (5 of which I was kept in a feezer all day for 5 years, without proper means of keeping healthy), I convinced the owners of a new workplace to not let the other bosses threaten them if they hired me. In this time I saw how many people praised me for never once losing my temper at the most hateful treatment, and, yet, how many, after acknowledging my morals as a good standard, loved to make themselves forget and return to the dark things they were addicted to.

My point? If this is how the average person is in one area, who says that the majority of sects do not knowingly prefer a devotion to hard-heartedness against open-mindedly seeking what is the one, universal Truth? Many conflicting ideas are not able to be one universal Truth. Only pure Truth can unite. Love is necessary - but only True Love (not just any one's idea of "love") is of any merit.

[Pendragon]

You make a good point, Mil, and I would not call it a critism of religion, or even the lack thereof, but the disrespect of a group of people in a given situtation. Love is, indeed, key. Not my idea of what it should be like, as you stated, but God's love. Matt. 5:43-48 puts it in perspective. It is easy to love the one who returns the favor, but can you reach out to the one who doesn't? That is love perfected. :angel:

[cuppajoe_9]

Mil:

Let me see if I understand this. According to you, most male atheists are:

1. "...perverts of the worst kind..."
2. selfish
3. "...dominating victim[s] of [their] lust..."
4. treacherous
5. hateful
6. bitter
7. slanderous
8. hard-hearted
9. closed-mided


I love you too, buddy.



Yours Truly:

The perverted selfish domineering treacherous hateful bitter slanderous cold-hearted closed-minded cuppajoe_9.

XOXOXOXO

[Mililalil XXIV]

Mil:

Let me see if I understand this. According to you, most male atheists are:

1. "...perverts of the worst kind..."
2. selfish
3. "...dominating victim[s] of [their] lust..."
4. treacherous
5. hateful
6. bitter
7. slanderous
8. hard-hearted
9. closed-mided


I love you too, buddy.



Yours Truly:

The perverted selfish domineering treacherous hateful bitter slanderous cold-hearted closed-minded cuppajoe_9.

XOXOXOXO
Most guys I have known are. It's a fact. Most of them lust after young girls sexually, while being unfaithful to their wives in every possible way. When every single guy in every one of your high school classes except for a few wanted to have a contest to violate certain girls you knew, or when every other guy (except one or two) you knew at every job you ever had has touched females in the workplace (to varying degrees) in an improper way, or has allowed it to happen, and none of them are people you'd trust around any of your loved ones, and you notice that they mostly excuse themselves from being just with the same atheistic excuse, and that most of them claim to be atheists, then are you going to flatter such people?

I have known people that called themselves "Christian" that act the same way, and I have always pointed out how shameful they were, and that they should only call their lust their god. I have a few friends that have been atheists, but they were not closed-minded about maybe reconsidering the matter. I have no problem with a respectable person like Unnamable, who cannot pretend he knows what he is not sure he does know at all. Some people, being mere agnostics, have beautiful hearts that don't even realize how well they do all they can to reflect the Essence of CHRIST they subconsciously have an affinity to. But to decide one is not going to give any credit to a GOD that may very well be is wholly ignoble and selfish. Most men are selfish, and most of what they do merely reflects this. I don't live in a Christian country, so I used the only social experience I have been weighed down beneath all of my years thus far. My point had less to do with anti-atheism as a subject, than with pointing out that if a society can exist which is mainly against anything remotely resembling worship of a god, then why presume all religions are equal, and that there is not somewhere between absolute Religion and absolute atheism, a counterfeit of the True Religion? If all religions are equal, then all things must be equal, since to say that all sects have equal links to the same LORD is to presume something in all religionists, that, in turn, must be drawn out of all men alike.

[Bandini]

Most guys I have known are. It's a fact. Most of them lust after young girls sexually, while being unfaithful to their wives in every possible way. When every single guy in every one of your high school classes except for a few wanted to have a contest to violate certain girls you knew, or when every other guy (except one or two) you knew at every job you ever had has touched females in the workplace (to varying degrees) in an improper way, or has allowed it to happen, and none of them are people you'd trust around any of your loved ones, and you notice that they mostly excuse themselves from being just with the same atheistic excuse, and that most of them claim to be atheists, then are you going to flatter such people?



I don't think this has anything to do with religious beliefs (or lack of) - where do you live? It sounds like a horrible, backward, macho place.

[Arethusa]

where do you live?

Sounds like they all fell asleep on the reactor at Sellafield...Nothing left but meat with eyes. :goof:

[cuppajoe_9]

Uh Mil? I wanted you to apologize, not claim to have a stranglehold on cosmic truth.

[Ipse]

Uh Mil? I wanted you to apologize, not claim to have a stranglehold on cosmic truth.
So you're saying your views are the cosmic truth therefore he has to apologize? :goof:
Anyway, by saying all religions have the same Lord, you're forgetting some religions have many gods. Would you say that because they have multiple gods their religion is false?

[cuppajoe_9]

No, I'm saying he indirectly called me a pervert and therefore he should apologize. I have never claimed to have any sort of grasp on cosmic truth. I realize that I am, in all likelihood, completely wrong about a great many things.

I don't think I did say that all religions have the same god (although Christianity, Islam and Judaism certainly do), but being an atheist I think (note the word choice) that a person who believes in any number of gods is mistaken.

[Xamonas Chegwe]

Mil:

Let me see if I understand this. According to you, most male atheists are:

1. "...perverts of the worst kind..."
2. selfish
3. "...dominating victim[s] of [their] lust..."
4. treacherous
5. hateful
6. bitter
7. slanderous
8. hard-hearted
9. closed-mided

He knows me so well! :lol: