Is your Faith Strong enough to listen to other views on Religion?
I came across a U-Tube video with Stephen Fry being asked question on RTE about what will happen when he dies and does God exist.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=-suvkwNYSQo
He raised some issues that made one think. The usually questions, Why does God allow bad things to happen? Also if God did exist and was so perfect he could have done a better job of it.
Next I came across a U-Tube video countering is, Stephen Fry’s argument, which is also a Humanist argument. But from a Muslim viewpoint, that I found interesting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=L38YLUskXR8
To balance these arguments I came across a debate from a mainly Christian viewpoint. The original discussion was about Humanism Weddings. They have been allowed in Scotland, but have been vetoed in England. Should humanists have equal rights to religions?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIoj9Xd3ZfA&feature=player_detailpage
I digress a little but there was article on divorce and marriage in Islam, which may or not have some bearing. As I understand it in Britain there three ways to get married.
Religious Ceremonies and State Marriages [Register Office] Or one can just live together under a common law perspective. From what I have learned most Muslim marriages, whilst if carried in a Mosque and are accepted by the Muslim Community, but are rarely registered in Civil Law. Would it not be of some benefit to the Muslim Community [especially woman] if all marriage unions were registered under Civil Law.
http://www.therevival.co.uk/forum/general/12815
Lastly I came across a U-Tube video called “Is God the problem?” Were there was a very good discussion on the pros and cons about God and Religion or lack of, I found it an hour worth spending.
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I can listen to beliefs of others who are not on the truth.
If they don't have the truth, then what remains is complete bollocks.
There you have it summed up in about twenty or so words the problem.
Question: "What is truth?"
Answer: Almost two thousand years ago, Truth was put on trial and judged by people who were devoted to lies. In fact, Truth faced six trials in less than one full day, three of which were religious, and three that were legal. In the end, few people involved in those events could answer the question, “What is truth?”
The second answer to what is truth;
George Orwell summed this up in his book 1984. “In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing an aeroplane they had to make four.”
- George Orwell, 1984
The third answer to what is truth;
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”
-Joseph Goebbels,
There we have it, Truth, or faith is what you believe. You may shout it from the roof tops. You may intimidate people to accept what you believe as the truth. People may go along with your views for a little while due to being afraid.
But at the end of the day it does not make it the truth.