(March 1, 2013 at 6:49 am)EGross Wrote: For all religions, the idea is that yours is the right one, and therefore the others are wrong. If yours believes in a heaven, then non-belivers don't go there, just your crowd.Ok. Now the myth of "the only reason why you are Muslim is because your parents are one" is conditional upon a person's rejection of Islam. The statement is flat out incorrect according to the Qur'an.
And of course the big quandry - if religion "X" is completely incompatible with religion "Y", then which one does God think is the right one, since both claim that He selected "X" OR "Y", not AND.
So there is, of course, the desire to get everyone to join "X" because it would be a shame if peple were in "Y" and didn't get to go to heaven (or wherever). So there obviously, in the religion business, only one correct religion, because incompatible ones cannot both be right (using "2" as an example. Obviously there are more).
Doesn't it strike the believer as being odd that all of the other religions believes that his is the NOT right one, and that obviously God just wants one and all the rest are screwed? Because if you didn't choose your parents, you didn't choose the religion thrust upon you, and you believe out of trust and social encouragments, and when you die will you end up saying "Hey, if you wanted me to be a Muslim, you should have made me one, Goddamit!"
So either God is a twisted bastard enjoying the pain and destruction of religious divisions without giving a hint, or man made all of this stuff up and He doesn't care, or my choice...
...man made all of this stuff up and there never was a God, no matter what name you assign to a super-Ego.
It is true, if God wanted somebody to be Muslim then he could have converted them immediately. So how does God decide who gets to see the light and who doesn't? Simple. whoever is sincerely looking for the truth, then God will reward that sincerity with guidance. But if people are bent upon staying in the condition that they are in, then God will make sure they stay in the path they are on.