Mohandas Gandhi once said "I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ." From this quote alone I found out that the concept of religion can really drive people mad. Christianity is one of the few examples that lead to senseless wars and death to millions. I'm not trying to justify that the concept of Christianity and the word of Christ should be dismissed completely, the source of these senseless genocide of the "non-believers" are caused by the "radical believers." From the teachings of Jesus Christ he believed in making peace with your enemies by using the idea of a non-violent approach. The radical believers are the ones that take the idea of any religion and use it for their own gain.
Christianity has had this ugly past of people trying to convert one another to the idea of Jesus Christ. If one tried to resist you will be executed right on the spot, well if Jesus Christ was the one who started this idea of Christianity and he believed in the act of peace, why are we killing each other for it? Why are there more violence and more death because of this? Just because some may not agree with the aspects of Christianity doesn't give anyone the right to judge or abhor each other. In my personal experience I once had a friend who hated me because I wasn't so enthused about the idea of Christianity. He mocked me and told me I was going to end up in this dreadful place of eternal suffering called Hell. Now when I first heard that (me being in middle school) I was shocked and scared and I wanted to do everything in my power to stay away from that kind of place. As I later matured I saw what was really happening behind the curtains.
When I first went to church what I found out was really disappointing, basically the pastor tried to scare the people about going to hell and the only way to get yourself out of the situation was to put your dedication to Jesus Christ and the only way to do so was to buy his DVD about his lecture. IT WAS JUST ANOTHER PROFIT! Some say that something's just don't go together, and I thought money and religion was one of them. It is quite sad that some church uses fear to make profit out of it, now I thought we were all past that with Martin Luther's 95 theses, the saying of 'history tends to repeat itself' turns out to be true after all. I'm not saying that every church in the world is like this, but I believe the radical believers are the ones that are giving the idea of any religion a bad name. To this day hatred and violence is still occurring because of our different perspectives, instead of acknowledging each of our different idealism and bringing us together it separates us even more.
Joon Totally agree with you....but i do belieave in Jeasus but not as a "God" but as a philosopher who belieaved in peace and a inner heaven that you can achieve by being peaceful. I liked this blog very much....not once Dewie not once:/
ReplyDeleteThis is the truth, radicals create more harm than peace to the world we live in. It's is disappointing that humans always see differently, we can't be forced to be exact, and for being different and standing up in what we believe in, especially atheist or any other theist, we get harassed. So many examples can prove your claim to be right but I don't need to write them since they know what they have done. Loved it :)
ReplyDeleteP.S. John, who is "Jeasus"? haha.
You've got it! People are hypocrites. They follow Christ and other religious but act nothing like them. They preach their ideas as though their word is law, but don't follow them. It truly is a sad thing to see how these ideals of peace taught by religions end up causing senseless death and violence.
ReplyDeleteI love the quote that you used in this, I heard it a long time ago and it still sticks in my mind. People, more often than no, become manifest with ideas of people, places and things. These are modern day christians,they are absolute hypocrites, they preach certain values but don't practice them. It's like do as I say but not as I do.
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