Sunday, April 24, 2011
Friday?
Religion. To me this is a word that has a lot of power. No matter who you are, often this word stimulates a whole feild of emotions. Good, bad, ugly, beautiful, passionate... no matter who you are, often it stimulates something. And often its the thing that most people find the most comfort in. Its the one aspect of society that can bring peace to people. The one that completes ones view of life, and more important after life. To a lot of people "religion" gives them purpose. In society religion gives morals and structure for living. It can give the wanderers guidelines and the rebels a place to come back to. But in the name of religion so much hate has been done. In the name of "love" so much harm and hurt have been imposed. But to blame religion for this would be uncalled for. I cannot agree with hannah more when she said its not religion that has the flaws, its the humans that distort the religion. When looking at the religions of the world, so many of them lead straight to love. No where in love should you be able to find the harm that has been done in the name of God. But human flaw you find just that. Humans inflict the hurt, harm and hate... humans.
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emily, i agree with you 100 percent! oh and i love ya :D
ReplyDeleteEm you are awesome. lol
ReplyDeleteGoing back to the epigram "we have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love." I feel like this statement is so false, just because of the fact that religion(when based on the bible) teaches to "love thy neighbour as thy self" and never teaches to hate.
Matthew 5:43-44
Yes Abby... you are right that religion teaches that message. But the application of it isn';t always the greatest. Think of all the people that use religion as an excuse to judge others and to attack others rather than forgive and serve others.
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