This post is about religion so be prepared that my views may not match yours. That's what is great about the U.S. We are allowed to practice whatever religion we want without fear of persecution.
I writing about the latest incident of the Nigerian Islamic extremist trying to blow up a plane here in Metro Detroit. I was raised Catholic and I have seen so many extreme views even in the Christian religion. My basic premise is that: I don't believe any God whether it is Muslim, Jewish, Hindu, Christian, or Buddhist would want to kill others because they don't believe in their religion.
In my opinion it just goes against the grand scheme of things. Hatred and killing isn't what any God wants. I just believe that all God's want us to be better people. To help others, to make the world a little better place. Throughout the centuries their has been religious persecution. The Crusades, The Holocaust are just two. Saddam Hussein tried to kill off as many Shiites as possible. It goes on in many countries and cultures across the country. I just can't believe God would want us to do that.
I have seen in the Catholic religion too. My brother in law's mother disowned her daughter because she married a Jewish guy. They never really talked for 30 years. Sad. Another mother caused such a fuss in her Catholic family because the son wasn't being married in the Catholic Church. The mother son relationship is strained. All because of religious beliefs that the son or daughter was committing a sin against the religion. I understand the reasoning but is it worth losing the love of your kids and being narrow minded about "our" religion.
It's great to believe our religion is the "right" one. That all others aren't following the right and true God. That ours is the best. Sadly I believe many organized religions did that to force conversion and to keep believers. The killing and hatred of other religions have become a by product of not being part of the "RIGHT" religion. I just can't believe any God would want people to die, to hate, to maim others.
KILLING PEOPLE IN THE NAME OF RELIGION IS WRONG!!!! It doesn't matter if you are killing an abortion doctor, or a Muslim killing an American, or a Nazi killing a black man or Jew. There is no God that would want that. At least no God that I want to be a follower of.
This guy from Nigeria would have killed women, children, Muslims and Americans all in the name of Allah. I don't think Allah would want that. I think here in the U.S. we have it right. You get to practice your religion the way you want. But I believe THAT NO RELIGION OR FOLLOWERS HAVE THE RIGHT TO FORCE US TO FOLLOW THEIR RELIGION HERE IN THE United States. If you want to do that move back to the country you came from.
So I ask each of you
- believe in your religion
- spread your faith to others that are receptive
- don't try to jam your beliefs down other people's throats
- Help others
- try to do one good deed a day
- don't hate others because they don't believe like you or act like you
- give money and time to help make the world a little better place
- don't destroy your family because your kids don't believe exactly like you do
- try to become a little better person each day
- try to change the world thru legal means not illegal means
- don't kill the non believers
Just my thoughts for the day. Because..... instead of celebrating Christmas we would have been mourning the death of those people on the flight to Detroit. May we have peace between the religions.
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