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Welcome to our blog, Religious Reconciliation Doc
and our post, Meeting with our religious friends
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Meeting with our religious friends
As we have promised at the end of our last
post, we were going to meet with some of our religious friends and then we
would continue to talk about what we talked about at the meeting. So, the other
day the meeting that I have organized took place. So, I have met our friends
and talked about the religious subjects that we have been talking about above,
I have to say that on certain religious aspect they seem to go past my own ways
of dealing with the situation, at least some of their speeches seemed to point
that way, so, let us hear what Mark had to say first.
Mark speech in a nutshell,
If we want to find hidden meanings in the
Bible and see why the Bible has been written the way it has been written, and
also we understand the Bible the way we have been taught to understand it,
then, we have really to start from the very beginning and use our logic reasoning
minds to see if what we have been taught stands up to logic human reasoning;
therefore, if and when it does stand up to our logic human reasoning as we
believed it would, we have to try to understand what were the reasons, and then
we can decide how to proceed.
So, let me tell you how I see these
religious things: In my opinion I feel that in those times when the bible was
written the way the Bible was written, it would have made sense to the believer
of those times; you see people have always needed religions and to believe in a
God that could be able to protect them from what they themselves would not be
able to protect themselves, so, most civilizations had their own beliefs and
gods that would help them somehow, and this can be seen from the various
religions that exist today, if we are able to read between the lines.
Anyhow, in those times it happened that the
Israelite needed a God to help them, so they looked at what their forbear
already believed in and came up with this idea; they needed a God that was
going to be superior to the other existing gods of those times, after all the
Israelite needed this God to free them from the Egyptian, so Moses their leader
provided just that God when he went on Mount Sinai and met Yahweh (God) as a
burning bush, from there we know the rest of the Jews story, the story that for
thousands of years has gone on and has become the largest religion in the
world; this religion was started with Moses on Mount Sinai, and now, even
though the old Israelite religion has changed a bit in various way depending to
which religion one belongs, it has taken over most of the religious world.
Here I would like to point out that this
religion has done a lot, and has guided lots of people in a meaningful way and
it has lasted until today in various forms, I have said it has lasted until
today because we don’t know what is going to happen in the future. Because as
you all know today there are some people that do not need religions anymore,
since time have changed and that feeling of danger from the unknown is not
constantly present as it was in the past. So, some people like the atheists
feel safe and feel that they can survive by themselves, so, they would like to
see religions disappear, and who knows it might even happen in the far away
future, we can never know.
Now let me say how I see religions today:
Today we have to view religions in two different ways; the negative part of
religion exists because some of the Muslim religions are becoming terrorists,
these would be religious terrorist groups are a real threat to everybody
including religions themselves, so we have to hope that somehow they will end
soon, before something really bad happens on a large scale.
However, I have to say that my personal
views are that most people still need religions just the way they are today,
you see; we have always needed religions even if the atheists believe that we
do not need them now? But, really how could we just let religions disappear? I
believe that it could not and would never happen.
We need to look at today religious set up
as a way of life that has been proven for centuries to work well with people;
therefore people could not and would not accept any religious changes easily.
If we can work out what can be done to change some religious beliefs without
upsetting the whole system, then maybe we would be able to move to the next
religious system, which very likely is inevitable: I am saying it is inevitable
because everything changes with time and also religions will change; one has to
look in the past to see that two thousand years ago people had different
religions. I suppose I can say many other things about religions, but I suppose
I have to let our other friends have a say if they so wish, so, that is all
from me for the time being.
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Our views and more speeches
When Mark stopped talking; I, Gino and
another two of our friends that were interested in these religious talks said
that we understood what he had said. But at the same time I and perhaps Gino
thought that really there was a need to say more, in order to have some idea
where we were going to go, if we wanted to find a new religious way. There and
then we knew that Mark did not go far enough to say that we needed a sort of religious
review. So I asked Gino to say something himself, very well knowing that
sometimes Gino is very crafty in his ideas.
Now before I write down what Gino had to
say, I want to inform our readers that in this religious writings, we will try
to keep speakers to a minimum, so, I, Mark and Gino will usually speak for all
our friends that are interested in these religious talks, I believe that it
could be easier for everybody to understand what is going on.
Gino speech
I know that our friend Mark has said many
wise things that make sense, but what he said stops short of giving us a
solution about reviewing the Bible and any other religious books, indeed it is
hard for any of us to find a solution for these religious problems, therefore I
believe that a straight way cannot be found, so, we may have to find another
way around that might not upset religious people and at the same time suggests
something about what is happening, or what may be going to happen in the future
to religions, because of these present situations about the atheists and also
the extremist groups, as Mark has pointed out. So, the only thing that I can
suggest is that we can indeed review the Bible interpretation, but we have to
be very careful, and therefore make sure that everything is written in such a
way that is all seen as a suggestion of the possible present situation. It
needs to be written mostly in a conditional way with plenty of ifs and maybes,
so that the readers can make their own minds up as they go along; we also need
to remind the readers that what is being written are only suggestions, so only
time will tell what is going to happen to religions in the future.
Well that is how I see this situation and
what we might be able to do about it today; this is the main thing I wanted to
say to you, now you can make up your own mind.
Gino stopped talking and we said, your idea
sounds good perhaps we should indeed try to review the Bible and any other
religious books soon when we meet again. After that we started to have some
other friendly talks that are not important to mention here.
I believe that we have said enough in this
article, so, see you in our next article about, Bible reviews are necessary,
after all we also want to study all sorts of religions.
May God help us to understand this
religious situation?
May God bless us all?
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Religious Reconciliation Doc
Meeting with our religious friends
IS TO BE CONTINUED;
Next time with; Bible review are necessary.
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