Friday, March 6, 2009

CONFLICT BASED ON BELIEFS

If one believes one is religious, and we all believe in only ONE GOD … how and why do we have so many different religions? Has GOD told us to do this? Or can it be those of us who have so many different motives who “believe” there aren’t so many different religions to convince ourselves that our beliefs are the only correct ones?

Can it be GOD? The obvious answer must be loud NO. We must be telling ourselves that what we believe must be correct? This is a dilemma that muddies our thinking. There must be some way to repair the damage this is doing to all our different personal religious beliefs. If this is so, when GOD...IF WE LISTENING TO HIM…must be telling all of us the same thing.

I wish I knew how to help us solve this problem. It does not add to what should be a positive experience for each of us. Not necessarily all of us believe the same thing, but each of us has a choice by which we can live productively, have positive relations with each other, and be able to listen to our differences, and discuss them rather than simply disagreeing. Or is that asking too much of ourselves?

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