(July 19, 2013 at 11:32 am)wandering soul Wrote: 1. the personal agenda we each bring to our religion/non-religion has more to do with how we approach our beliefs and how we read/interpret - or not read - the bible.
2. people who use the Bible to send everyone to hell except themselves have their counterparts in every religion, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism (well there you get to keep trying for several lifetimes until you get it right). They are just finding the parts that suit their in-human tendencies. .. Fortunately they are in the minority.
3. there are far more people who use their sacred scriptures as a foundation to build kindness, tolerance, insight, and mutual respect.
4. there are also many christians, muslims, jews, hindus, buddhists who see all religions as different means to help our shared humanity achieve mutual benefits - and they find in their respective scriptures and use their respective scriptures to build these bridges - even with atheists
1. Completely agree.
2. & 3. I wish I were as confident as you about this.
4. I'm all for this. I think we should skip the step of deciding what we should all believe regarding religion and move on to deciding how we would like to treat each other and what important projects we can work together on.
