Welcome to our religious article (51), our
religious theory.
May God guide and help me to write the right
things?
Our religious theory
Our religious theory
Dear readers, as we have said in our last
article of part two that religions need to continue, because most of the times
they are useful for mankind. Therefore now, let us start from the beginning,
because this is the beginning of part three of our religious writings, you see
we have been studying and writing about religions and we have already said many
things in our previous 50 hubs, but even though we have said so much, we seem
to have said very little that would really help to solve those problems that the
entire world is facing today, as we are going to explain later in this hub
under the sub title, the religious theory trigger; here of course we are only
trying to have our say about what could be done to solve those religious
problems that seem to come from the religions themselves.
So now, let us talk about our religious
theory, you see, this religious theory is being written in the belief that we
could and would be helping all humanity in a religious way in the future, so
that religious attacks as we have seen happening in the world could be avoided,
or at least detached from religions; here we need to say that for a long time I
was thinking about this religious matter, because I had noted a few things and
I was not happy with some religious ways; now I was not thinking that these
attacks could take place, but I was noting some inconsistence in religions and
wondering why the world puts up with all this stuff, and why nobody does
anything about it. Some of this stuff we have discussed in our previous hubs,
but so far we have not been able to suggest anything that would be useful, so
in this part three we are going to write our religious theory that we hope it
would be useful at least to separate religions from those things that happen by
using a religious cover.
Therefore, now let us go back to talk about
the people and how they use religions, as this was and is the real issue and
not religions themselves, because these people that personally did attack were
brain washed by their leader in many ways and they also used religions to
brainwash them; because of this link between the attackers and religions, today
the world looks at this event as if it has come from religion only, but that is
not true because no religion really states to go out and kill your fellow man,
at the most they will accept self defence.
For this reason written above and other
reasons that we are going to explain as we go on, we have reasons to believe
that for religions to serve humanity well in the future, as they have done in
the past, they need to be reviewed and perhaps some of their interpretation
modified, starting with the western religions, because some of their beliefs or
statements seem to be hard to believe nowadays, if we apply the knowledge that
we have today.
Now, what we have said above is just one of
the main events that sets our minds thinking, how and why we have become so low
and try to kill other people instead of debating the issues with them, today
people seem to want more and more for themselves and they would do anything to
achieve that, the world really needs some sort of super guidance that can come
only if we believe that we are all children of the same God and we all should
be able to live in peace at least in a religious way.
So what can be done, one would like to ask?
First of all we have to say again that we need to look more closely at what is
happening in the world today, and there we will see that somehow religions fail
to guide humanity the way that they are supposed to guide us in a peaceful and
just way. But there is more than just what we see at first sight, because there
are many other reasons; therefore we say that there are reasons to believe that
religions might need to be somehow modified, to meet the need of the people
today and also for the future; we believe that there are at least three main
reasons why religions may need to be modified, one of these is what we have
written above, and here-under we are explaining some of the other reasons.
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The other reasons
Apart what we have said above, the other
reasons that make us believe that all religions need to be modified, it is
because religions would be able to survive the atheist attacks, who are using
those old religious statement that don’t seem to make sense any more today and
they ridicule religious people and other things, they tell us that God does not
exist and religions have all been invented by mankind for many reasons. But we
know that they could be wrong in assuming that God does not exist, because we
believe that God must exist, as we have written in our hub, God
exists because life exists, you see for us God is life
because he has given us life, and also because we the believers see many sign
of God existence but the atheists don’t see them, because they are not looking
for any signs of God existence.
For many reasons the atheists continue to
believe that God does not exist and they will argue with us believers the non
existence of God. You see if this atheist attack continues in the future and
nothing is done to stop it, it may one day weaken religions in such a way that
religions could become perhaps insignificant in the far away future; therefore
we have reasons to believe that this would somehow make life harder for some
people that need to believe in God and religions, because these people need
religions to guide them and they feel better if good religions are there to do
that.
The second reason is that religions should be
modified in such a way that would allow Catholic priests to get married if they
want to get married, and then anyone of them that practice paedophilia and any
other disgusting acts in the clergy should be banned from the clergy altogether
and prosecuted according to the laws of the land.
The third most important reason why religions
need to be modified, it is to prevent the extremist groups using religions in
such violent ways, like they have done in the attack of nine eleven 2001, and
then they are able to find an excuse and tell the world that they have done it
in the name of God, which is a complete lie, because God would never order to
kill his own children. You see we are all God’s children, no matter to what
religion or race one may belong or where is born and come from.
These three reasons are the three most
important reasons why we believe that religions need to be modified, and they
should be modified in such a way that these things should not happen anymore,
or at least have a good chance of preventing them; of course there are many
more reasons, but they are less important or they seem to be less important
compared to these three issues?
In our present case while we are writing this
part three, this religious theory is also being written to complete this part
three of our religious writings of Prayers for reconciliation; here we need to
explain that Prayers for reconciliation, part one and part two have been
written to get the public ready to accept this part three theory of
Reconciliation of the universe; here is one of the hub links if you would like
to read some of it (Prayers
for Reconciliation ) and
this part three as I said is going to be called Reconciliation of the universe,
because here is where we are going to write our theory that might help to
change religious thinking and religious things in such a way that
reconciliation of all religions could become possible in the future by using
this new way; we know that this is only a religious theory and there is no
certainty that it is going to work, but we need to start form somewhere.
As you already know these religious writings
are our study of religions and how religions serve humanity, and also how
religions could serve humanity in the future; therefore, in this religious
theory we would be trying hard to suggest a new way that could be able to
overcome most of today religious problems and this could be a achieved by
modifying existing religions, and also the way that we see the spiritual forces
of the universe, since the spiritual forces are definitely part of all
religions.
This religious theory that we are writing is
only our suggestion of how these religious problems could be overcome in the
future, because there could be many other ways to explore; but somehow we are
pushed to do something now, as you will be able to see here under in, the
religious theory trigger.
May God help and guide us to achieve what we
would like to achieve?
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The religious theory trigger
The religious
trigger
The trigger that
really set me thinking that we the people of this world needed to do something
about these religious issues, or at least have our say, was the terrible event
of nine eleven 2001, when New York City and other places in the US became under
attack presumably from religious fanatics, at least that was the way that the
press reported it and the way we saw it in the beginning, because whoever
organized it used religion in such a way that brainwashed those that did that
terrible act. Therefore, we believe that behind this attack there is a lot more
that just plain religious fanatics attacks, so let us imagine what it could
have been?
First of all we
have really to try and distinguish what really the attack was; as there are
many reasons to believe that it was a deliberate attack to the US mainland, not
only in a religious way but in many other ways as well, and it was meant also
to tell the western world to mind their own business and do not mingle with
their religious and political ways of running their own affairs. But they chose
America for their first target just because they hate America more than the
rest of the western world, and they were jealous of America being so powerful
and sometimes telling them what to do even in their own country.
Perhaps we may have
to admit that America sometimes mingles too much in other people business,
because they believe that they could or would show these people how to live a
better life, because they believe that they are the best at everything,
(perhaps they are) but they don’t see that they live in the western world, so
their value of how to live a good life is different from the value that some
other people give to know how to live a good life.
Therefore a large part of these other people
do not see it the same way as the Americans see it and therefore they want to
stop America interference, this is how some of us see these happenings today.
Now while we are editing this hub there are other terrible things happening in
Iraq and we believe that they are the consequences of the war waged to remove
Saddam Husain regime, here again the rebels that do most damage are supposed to
be Islamic religious extremist. Anyhow here we would like to point out also
that whatever we do there are other consequences, therefore the Americans and
the western world need to slow down and wait for those that don’t believe in
the western civilization, we have to wait as long as it take until those people
are ready to copy our ways, if and when they are ready to copy us and if they
don’t copy us they don’t, it is their choice.
So, as you can see
we could go on arguing about the reasons why these terrible things happen and
who is at fault, but that is not what we want to do here, because here we have
started to write our religious writing, because we want to write our religious
theory of the future, so we have to leave behind these arguments between
America and other people and go back to write our religious theory, in the hope
that we are able to find a way how to stop these terrible happenings at least
in a religious way; so let us start to talk about our religious theory.
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Theory based on old beliefs
This new religious theory needs to be based
on old beliefs
This new religious theory that we have in
mind to write and suggest to the world, we are writing it because we believe
that soon or later it is going to be necessary to write and suggest to the
world something like this. We believe also that it needs to be based on the
entire world existing religious and spiritual beliefs that we have today, first
of all because it is necessary to continue religions the way they are today, so
that people will not become upset, since religions for most of us is a way of
life that has been passed down from generation to generation, therefore
believing in what we have always believed helps us to live a better life in our
own ways.
Therefore, this is one of the main reasons
that we need to be careful if and when we try to modify religions, as it needs
to be done very gradually and in such a way that most if not all the people
accept it willingly, and those religious changes should only take place when
the public is ready to accept them? We know that some of you are going to say
that if most people don’t like to change religious beliefs, why make the effort
to change them, or make an effort to suggest changes of religious beliefs, even
if what is suggested is only a theory that is still being drawn, in the hope of
solving some of the existing religious problems.
You see, we believe that there are negative
forces that might bring religions down, and perhaps even destroy them, as we
have tried to explained at the beginning if this article. Now that we have
stated the first main problem that we would encounter in modifying religions,
let’s see how we would be able to go about to achieve those modifications
without upsetting religious people.
First of all, we should really put all the
world religious information available together so to speak, of course this will
result in a huge amount of religious information that we need to sort out and
we will have to sort them out in a way that most of us would accept? Well that
is not going to be easy to say the least and it will also take a very long
time.
Here are some links to the religious books
shown beside this article for you to check them out some of the main religions.
Once we have collected all religious
information together, we should at least learn our own religion very well, so
that we would be able to discuss it easily with anyone wanting to discuss our
religion; we have also to learn the most important part of all other major
religions, and then we should devise a way how to sort all this information
down. Now, to sort any religious information one needs to have at least a
guideline of the main articles that one should take into consideration, but
this is the hardest part, because how can we decide what to take into
consideration and what not to take? This is something that needs to be sorted
out first even before we start to do anything. So let us see how we could do
this together.
Sorting out religions
Sorting out what to sort from religions
Perhaps to sort out those religious information’s
that could be helpful one should look at what most religion do and believe
today, and since we would like to bring most religions together, then it is
obvious that we have to choose those things that all religions have in common;
at this stage we have reasons to believe that most or perhaps all religions
believe in some sort of spirituality; so spirituality is the first thing that
we can use and we have to use it, if we want to bring religions together, if we
are able to do that then it will show that there is a link that binds all
religions together, this link will show us that indeed we might all belong to
the eternal spiritual life forces that make life possible on earth as well as
in the universe.
Having said that there are of course the differences
that exist in the religious world, there are also all those theories of how
this or that religion has started; and also all the gods and goddesses, saints
and other religious entity and events that happen in any of these world
religions. Anyhow, now we know or at least we believe that we have to work with
spirituality above all, if we want to bring all existing religions close
together, therefore, let us see briefly what sort of spirituality the main
religions contain:
Since the Christian religion and all other
religions that derive from the Bible form the largest group, let us mention a
few things about its spiritual content; at the top of all the spiritual entity
there is God (Yahweh, Jehovah, and/or Allah) followed by archangels, angels,
saints and worthy souls; now in order to keep in a certain order to make sense,
one could say that these are followed by the devils and the nasty souls, of
course all these spiritual entities dwell in another dimension and they cannot
travel freely to our dimension, it is said that God has forbidden them to come
down to earth after the flood, therefore they do not show up as much as they
would like to; now what we were talking about here were the spiritual forces of
the universe like angels and demons, but there is more to say here; because
after the angels and demons there are also the souls to talk about.
Since God is the life giver of every living
thing, it is believed that somehow God the master and life giver of the entire
universe has made it possible for the souls of people to travel in and out of
our dimension and the spiritual dimension, only when they are born and when
they die. This is in a nutshell how spirituality in the Christian religion is
supposed to be, because this is how our forbears have passed down this
information to us, because they have believed it to be so.
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Spirituality in some other religions
Spirituality in some other major religions
Spiritualty has always existed in the
religious world, so here we are going to talk about some of religious spiritual
beliefs, let us start from the Egyptians.
The Egyptians have the book of the dead and
other written evidence is found even today in the pyramid walls. Generally
speaking the Egyptian believed the people had a soul and that the Pharaoh was a
descendent of the gods and at his death he could again join the gods in the
afterlife, people also had souls but they were less important than the Pharaoh.
In this evidence that we find today, there are funeral texts designed to ensure
that deceased souls reach a pleasant afterlife through the elaborate rites at
their death, and there are many other things, there was also this belief that
souls needed food after their death.
The Indians have the Vedas and many other
books; one of the books that make sense to us westerners is the Laws of Manu,
where at least we are able to understand a few things about the Indian
religious beliefs; these beliefs are very complex and they are very hard to
explain unless we read from the book of, The Laws of Manu, so to make it easier
for our readers, we are going to quote part of the first chapter just the way I
have found it on the Internet, and here I quote:
1. The great sages approached Manu, who was
seated with a collected mind, and, having duly worshipped him, spoke as
follows:
2. 'Deign, divine one, to declare to us
precisely and in due order the sacred laws of each of the (four chief) castes
(varna) and of the intermediate ones.
3. 'For thou, O Lord, alone knowest the
purport, (i.e.) the rites, and the knowledge of the soul, (taught) in this
whole ordinance of the Self-existent (Svayambhu), which is unknowable and
unfathomable.'
4. He, whose power is measureless, being thus
asked by the high-minded great sages, duly honoured them, and answered,
'Listen!'
5. This (universe) existed in the shape of
Darkness, unperceived, destitute of distinctive marks, unattainable by
reasoning, unknowable, wholly immersed, as it were, in deep sleep.
6. Then the divine Self-existent (Svayambhu,
himself) indiscernible, (but) making (all) this, the great elements and the
rest, discernible, appeared with irresistible (creative) power, dispelling the
darkness.
7. He who can be perceived by the internal
organ (alone), who is subtile, indiscernible, and eternal, who contains all
created beings and is inconceivable, shone forth of his own (will).
8. He, desiring to produce beings of many
kinds from his own body, first with a thought created the waters, and placed
his seed in them.
9. That (seed) became a golden egg, in
brilliancy equal to the sun; in that (egg) he himself was born as Brahman, the
progenitor of the whole world.
End of quote from The Laws of Manu.
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Now that we have quoted a small part of the
beginning from this Indian sacred book The Laws of Manu, it becomes evident
that the laws of Manu it a very long conversation between the sages that ask
Manu many religious issues and Manu that will explain to them very detailed
religious issues; here I have to say that there is a lot more to read in this
great book, so I strongly advise to use the link in this hub to read more about
the great Manu.
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Other religions from the Indian religion
Other religions were born from the Indian religion
The Indian religions have many ways and there
are many beliefs, we don’t know very much about them, since even the Indians
themselves cannot explain their many religions and ways of beliefs. What we in
the western world know is that from the Indus religions comes another important
religion the Buddhism.
Buddha story goes like this; when Buddha was
young 2600 years ago he was a prince, he was a young man called Siddhartha but
even though he was a rich prince he dealt with similar struggles that we have
today. It is said that he was born as a crown prince and was also blessed by
having an extremely beautiful wife. But still he was not completely happy,
because he felt that something was missing in his life. So one day he left
everything and went in search of complete happiness and what is the meaning of
life. It seems that he found some of his answers and from his new found
knowledge created unintentionally a new religion, just by teachings what he had
found.
Today Buddhism is an important religion; the
leader of this religion is the Dalai Lama, but unfortunately because China has
occupied Tibet, which is the main place of worship for the Buddhism religion,
the Dalai Lama has been banned from Tibet, but the religious people still
believe that he is the leader of this religion. Anyhow what I have found out
lately about this religion is that they are not like us of the Christian
religions, because we have a God and we pray to God; but you see, the Buddhists
do not really pray, but they meditate about what they are doing, whether it is
good or bad for themselves and their own souls. Anyhow I don’t know much about
this religion to say more, but has we have seen this religion it is there to
try to solve the meaning of life, so let me quote here what I have found lately
on the internet:
Perhaps this is what the Buddhists are after,
and I quote:
Knowing life purpose would invest everything
one did with meaning. Whether reading a book, performing a task, or caring for
one’s health, one would feel deep commitment and satisfaction. Even if one was
suffering from a dreadful disease, enmeshed in a family quarrel, or stung by a
humiliating defeat, the power to live-the determination to overcome any
obstacle in order to fulfil life’s great purpose- would always come flooding
back. In his own the Genealogy of Morals, Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
effectively underscored the importance of the meaning of life when he wrote
that man desires suffering and “even seeks it out, provided that he has been
shown a meaning for it, a reason for suffering”.
End of quote; well it seems to me that there
are very deep and meaningful meanings in this quote.
We will be writing more when we find
something else to say.
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