Love Vs Religion

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   Andrew0208posted 15 years ago

   Love Vs Religion:
   
   Can they marry? Many at times seeing the play of religion around the world today; the destruction of lives and properties! It's painful and so unworthy seeing religion ravaged humanity and the false acclaimed nature of love associated, you may wonder - Where is this showcased, outward love that has no firm root from the heart or what? Where is love in religion? Lets allow love to rule in our hearts...

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      (Q)posted 15 years agoin reply to this

      The myths and superstitions of religion don't profess love, they propagate fear and teach hatred and violence towards others.

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      Davidsonofjesieposted 15 years agoin reply to this

      Almost every thing JESUS told us was about love!!!

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         TheGlassSpiderposted 15 years agoin reply to this

         I would suggest that Jesus (and what he said) and religion are two very VERY different things.

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            Davidsonofjesieposted 15 years agoin reply to this

            thats right I was talking about Love

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               earnestshubposted 15 years agoin reply to this

               Where in hell would you get a belief in jesus if not from religion?

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                  Davidsonofjesieposted 15 years agoin reply to this

                  I am christian got nothing to do with religion

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                     earnestshubposted 15 years agoin reply to this

                     A christian has nothing to do with religion?
                     Where did you get your beliefs from, a workshop manual?

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                        Davidsonofjesieposted 15 years agoin reply to this

                        I beleive in the LORD JESUS ! does that make me religous?no it means I beleive in CHRIST

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                           earnestshubposted 15 years agoin reply to this

                           And that is not religious? You have a very strange idea of what religion is!

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                              Davidsonofjesieposted 15 years agoin reply to this

                              NO YOU DO

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                                 earnestshubposted 15 years agoin reply to this

                                 I somehow doubt that. Did you get indoctrinated without even reading the source of this madness?

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                                    Davidsonofjesieposted 15 years agoin reply to this

                                    madness is in the mind and not the heart

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                                       earnestshubposted 15 years agoin reply to this

                                       No, madness is believing this sort of crud.
                                       
                                             As you approach a town to attack it, first offer its people terms for peace.  If they accept your terms and open the gates to you, then all the people inside will serve you in forced labor.  But if they refuse to make peace and prepare to fight, you must attack the town.  When the LORD your God hands it over to you, kill every man in the town.  But you may keep for yourselves all the women, children, livestock, and other plunder.  You may enjoy the spoils of your enemies that the LORD your God has given you.
                                       (Deuteronomy 20:10-14)
                                       Jesus is supposed to BE this god and it's son, in reality leaving christians with believing the whole book or none of it!

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            Mikel G Robertsposted 15 years agoin reply to this

            I must agree.

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            defenestratethisposted 15 years agoin reply to this

            I agree with GlassSpider..

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         Hokeyposted 15 years agoin reply to this

         Jesus wasn't religious. People hijacked Jesus after he died.
         
         I really don't know why you post. 

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         Mikel G Robertsposted 15 years agoin reply to this

         Jesus would be ashamed of every religion that exists today. IMHO 
         
         {Not of all the members of those religions, but of the organizations themselves and what they have done in 'Jesus' name.}

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      Pandoras Boxposted 15 years agoin reply to this

      Didn't you post like the same exact OP a week or so ago?

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      Twenty One Daysposted 15 years agoin reply to this

      love supersedes everything, has no need.
      to need is to remain sinful/conscious.
      to satisfy the need: ritual, law, death.

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      Cagsilposted 15 years agoin reply to this

      Love Vs. Religion
      
      There cannot ever be a marriage between the two.
      
      Love is all about TRUTH!
      
      Religion is all about LIES!
      
      Plain and simple.

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   dingdongposted 15 years ago

   I think they can't marry!

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      Andrew0208posted 15 years agoin reply to this

      Religion is rooted in the selfishness of men, if you look into the play of religion and it's players, you'll understand the exact motives associated. Sometimes, this is what makes atheism to always go against the formations.
      
      God is Love, why will the supposed religious people who tend to follow God or whatever divinity play their own selfish games in the name of religion? That exactly tells the real state of religionists who tend to know and love Him(divinity) without expressing this same "love" to their fellows who are humans alike.

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   Sab Ohposted 15 years ago

   Don't you anti-religion folks ever get tired of droning on over just one topic? It's the same one note played over and over and over. I understand you have convinced yourselves that it makes you 'intellectual' and superior to all those billions, but I would think you'd get bored at some point.

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      Andrew0208posted 15 years agoin reply to this

      It's not an issue of anti-religion stuff. In the first place, I would like to know the essence of religion if not rooted in Love. It's high time we lay aside the weight of religion among us(any set)

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         JYOTI KOTHARIposted 15 years agoin reply to this

         Essence of religion is love, tranquility and equanimity. In general, the human kind, like other animals is selfish. True religion or spirituality teaches to be selfless and helping but we use even religions to propagate our own selfish agenda.
         
         Religion (any) does not teach us to propagate hatred but so called religious people do. Those who propagate hatred are not truly religious. They disguise their selfish agenda under the cover of religions.
         
         Just an opinion.

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         Mikel G Robertsposted 15 years agoin reply to this

           the secondary team must have been called up...lol
         
         
         we started at this point when I first joined HP, read the 4 months worth of threads and then we'll talk. ( I hate re-runs)

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      Pandoras Boxposted 15 years agoin reply to this

      Speaking of the same one note played over and over and over. If you are so set against the discussion of religion and beliefs, why do you hang out so much in the religion and beliefs section? Oh yeh, so you can play your one note over and over and over....

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         Sab Ohposted 15 years agoin reply to this

         " why do you hang out so much in the religion and beliefs section? "
         
         
         I don't. You thought that would be a 'clever' comment but you didn't bother to see if it was accurate. Good job.

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   skyfireposted 15 years ago

   Anything that takes over mind and becomes extreme turns into religion. That applies to love as well. I don't want to sound nihilistic but love can be a religion if we dissect it.

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   earnestshubposted 15 years ago

   Ah! Time to show where all the love and tolerance comes from!
   
   Kill Your Neighbors
   
       (Moses) stood at the entrance to the camp and shouted, "All of you who are on the LORD's side, come over here and join me." And all the Levites came.  He told them, "This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: Strap on your swords! Go back and forth from one end of the camp to the other, killing even your brothers, friends, and neighbors."  The Levites obeyed Moses, and about three thousand people died that day.  Then Moses told the Levites, "Today you have been ordained for the service of the LORD, for you obeyed him even though it meant killing your own sons and brothers. Because of this, he will now give you a great blessing."  (Exodus 32:26-29 NLT)
   
   The bible is the source of this "tolerance and love!"
   

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      Davidsonofjesieposted 15 years agoin reply to this

      that was because after breaking them from egypts hand and showing them all sorts of signs there hearts was still in egypt,making idols to worship,after all that GOD did for them

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         earnestshubposted 15 years agoin reply to this

         Oh well that explains it then! and of cause you would see nothing strange in an omnipotent god who has to kill those who don't believe in it!
         Even most religionists are not quite that neurotic!

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   Jeramiposted 15 years ago

   I remember when I was a kid..  went out side first thing in the morning and could feel the heat from the sun hitting me on the head. Even if I had been blind and never read a book about what it was, I woulda known it was there. Wouldn't have known what to call it though, without someone telling me what to call it.... don't matter what it looks like since I wouldn't be able to see it.

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