Mike, Merle, Joe, et al...
IMO the 'Big Three' monotheistic religions (Judaism, Christianity and Islam)
all are based on the premise that they have the ear of the one and only god and
everyone who doesn't accept that is wrong and going to hell. That makes
intolerance and mistreatment of non-believers very, very easy.
I could quote passages out of Leviticus in the Old Testament which are just as
horrendous as those quoted in the Koran.
Also I think these 'Big Three' religions are constantly fighting each other
because they all come from the same source, belief in Yahweh, Jehovah or Allah
which sure seems to me to be the same god. I really don't see a dime's worth
of difference between any of these, and their history is a history of violence,
murder, killing and wars.
Of course the Buddhist monks in Myanmar haven't been making the Buddhist
religion look any less violent either.
I think religions in general foster an 'us versus them' attitude, but that's
much more pronounced in monotheistic religions that have to maintain they
literally have the 'keys to the kingdom', in other words are custodians to the
only way to salvation.
...Bill!
--- In Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com, uerusuboyo@... wrote:
>
> Merle,<br/><br/>I.don't know how I could make my point any clearer, but here
> goes.<br/><br/>If the Koran is no different to any other religious book and
> Islam is just he same as any other religion, then why don't we see Jains
> strapping suicide-bombs to their bodies? Why aren't the Amish stoning
> adulterers? Where are the members of the Baha'i faith who have hacked the
> head off a non-believer? The Anglican ministers recruiting young people to
> become suicide bombers? The Hare Krishnas killing members for leaving? There
> may well be some universal or generic factors in the various religions (such
> as faith), but how anyone can claim that all religions are the same (in terms
> of their message of violence and hate) astounds me! Show me the same hateful
> passages in the Bhagavad Gita, Dhamapada or I
> Ching.<br/><br/>Mike<br/><br/><br/>Sent from Yahoo! Mail for iPad
>
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