Best comment I have gotten so far about loving and understanding people of other religions :)
Heya beautiful people! This post is actually a comment come post 😀 One of my beautiful follower Kate Berman who is running an excellent blog named as WANDERLUST AND WONDERMENT.
She recently left a beautiful comment on one of my posts: I am a Religionless Believer. Who am I?
She literally spoke my heart out so I wanted to share her comment because she did a beautiful effort to put up everything in words so I wanted to do some effort for her as well. Thank you so much fairy girl. You explained everything magically which maybe I would have failed to explain. Here is the comment:
I believe what keeps people from understanding each other is fear. Fear of the unknown, the different. Fear that the “other” will take over and leave us in the dark. Fear that our way of life will disappear. And fear that, after all this time believing and worshipping as we do, someone else comes along and says we are wrong.
But no one is wrong. Religion is a belief system, based on faith in a god or many gods. There is no right or wrong here. Science gives us facts, but religion answers our spiritual needs. I grew up Christian but lately have had a crisis of faith. I sit in church and something deep inside me says that I don’t believe in these things and that I am a hypocrite. But then I read an excellent book by John Shelby Spong called “Unbelievable: Why Neither Ancient Creeds Nor the Reformation Can Produce a Living Faith Today.” Spong is an Episcopalian priest. Yet he does not believe in the physical resurrection of Christ. Neither do I. He does not believe in heaven or hell. Neither do I. He doesn’t believe that Jesus was literally the son of God and a virgin. I long ago discarded these ideas. Yet he does believe in Jesus, as do I. It isn’t necessary for God and Jesus to be exactly as the church’s interpretation of the Bible says they are. There are many ways of believing. I believe that God is within us and in nature. God is our constant search for perfection. God is not a being, he is love, action, serving one another; he is our ability and talents and to honor him, we should live our lives to the fullest and be all we can be. A Guatemalan singer wrote a song called “Jesus is a Verb, not a Noun.” So profound! But whatever my beliefs, I respect those of other people. I love visiting churches, synagogues, mosques (although I have yet to visit one), and would love to see all the places in the photos you have posted here. I hope to see the ones in Israel on my trip there next January. What beauty humans have created to honor our God/Allah/etc.! Yet being all we can be as persons and loving others is the most beautiful and greatest honor we can give our God.
AQUIB
Just glanced it a read, but more Eagar to put forward my perspective. We put forward different ideologies and believes, some say God is love, some say God is everything, ie in animate and inanimate being. God this and God is that.
Every outcome is a probable chance of being true or being naive understanding and neither of it makes it as absolute statement.
Why? Because there is some loopholes as for example if God is everywhere, then everything is god untrue, then there will some another clause and then another one. All but a different conjectures of thoughts.
What we are missing here is A logical explanation of it that satisfies the insatiate mind of humans.