Sunday, January 8, 2012

Are Your Religious Beliefs Right or Wrong?

What is a religious belief? Does your conviction in your religion make you right? If people do not do what you do, or believe what you believe, are they all going to hell?

Looking at the three major religions, they all basically say, if you don't believe what is written in their books, then you are going to hell. I have often pondered that very statement, and while I have my beliefs, I am not the All Mighty Lord. So how do I know what He will choose to do? While we can state what the actions of our Higher Power will be, because of what is written in our books, it still comes down to none of us it that Higher Power.

In Christianity, Islam, and Judaism there are sects under the general heading of each religion. This says to me that everyone, even within their own religion, does not agree on things as simple as the basics. How effective does one think they can be in creating an atmosphere of the rights and the wrongs, when there is discord within their own religious factions.

We put labels on people, because they can deal with things we can't. Or they choose to try to live a life that they think is beneficial to their families, communities and their Higher Power.

These days. we take good for bad, and bad for good. ....When will we learn!

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