--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jst...@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <LEnglish5@> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > [...] > > > I still think the most important thing to bear in mind > > > is that if, as a religious person, you don't believe in > > > what another religion teaches, practices of that other > > > religion that don't involve conscious professions of > > > faith in its teachings cannot conflict with your own > > > beliefs, > > > > Except when they do, of course. > > Why, what a helpful comment, Lawson. > > (You don't think it would have been *more* helpful > had you given an example, do you?)
If your religion says explicitly: ractices of that other > > > religion that don't involve conscious professions of > > > faith in its teachings such practices conflict just because they came from another religion, then they conflict, period. Examples included listening to another religion's music, even by accident, or photocopying a religious icon for art class, when the origianl religion (not your own) says such activity, regardless of YOUR belief in the other religion, is still a religious practice. L.
