Love. That's what's most religions teach. You can't love someone you don't see if you can't love your neighbor. If you love your neighbor you'll treat them as equals — valuable people. How is that the equality which religion proffers believers has never existed? We've always had "birds of the same feather flocking together" and hating those who are different. Rich people hate poor people and exploit them. White and blacks hate each other. Straight people hate gay people. Is all this the failing of religion or the failing of people who claim to be religious? If one doesn't fulfill ALL the conditions required for them to be identified with a specific group, would you still call these people Muslims, Christians, Buddhists, etc?
Most people especially if they're fanatically religious only accept teachings they want to hear. They want their own beliefs further verified, they want to feel better about their choices in life. People shouldn't practice religion they should practice having faith most of all in God and their neighbors.
I agree with you, a lot of religious say that you should love and accept other people no matter what, but for example, when it comes to the LGBT+ community they seemed to forget about what they've said before. And I'm not really sure if I feel sad about this anymore, there are a lot of intolerance out there, but I think that this part of religion is kind of hypocrit.
Religious people don't want LGBT people in this society because the Bible prohibits this behaviour of theirs, but the Bible also teaches them to love everyone. Paradoxical, right? Of course. Some religious people really take everything for granted, even though we consider ourselves "sentient" beings who can distinguish good from bad. Yeah, sure... we let a 1000 page book tell us how to conduct our lives! Good stuff!
We should differ between people who are religious fanatics and those who really believe in the words of god. You have white people who are very good people and white people who are totally racists. The same takes effect for all other races but also religions. We have to look on every person individually if this person is bad or not or whether he/she believes really in the words of god or he/she is only part of a religion and interpreting it on himself/herself.
True, the Bible says love your neighbor as you love yourself but it does not say we agree with our neighbor's beliefs. There are many people that Jesus helped that did not follow His teachings. He did not hate or rebuke the prostitutes or the thieves, but he loved them and even helped them to get them saved. Just because you love someone does not mean you have to align with their beliefs. Its unfortunate, most religious people are hypocrites.
It's not paradoxical. The bible also tells people not judge anyone because no one is perfect. Like I said elsewhere those who call themselves "Christian" actually aren't Christians. They don't know what Christianity is about or if they do, they don't live as Christians should which makes them hypocrites.
Well this is just a silly question. If you read the Bible, and knew God for yourself, you'd understand. God makes the standards, not us. It is loving to tell someone that God doesn't approve of sin, like homosexuality for example. That doesn't mean that a Christian HATES homosexuals, they just are living by God's standards. The bible says if someone hates anyone else, they are living in darkness and don't know God. So if someone HATES, they're not of God, they don't know the true God of the bible. What's unloving, is to allow people to live their lives unwarned. God knows what's best for us because he created us.
Definitely there is this factor that is deep seeded of difference between groups culturally and physical appearance. It seems that physical appearance and being able to relate to someone on that aspect has always been a major factor.
about LGBT , I will write something here, Indian supreme court is against Gay-Rights and I respect my country's constitution,culture and law system. there is 1 historical word in Sanskrit ' Kinnar' which means Eunuch or transgenders. In India, most straight citizens, we respect kinnars , In many Hindu weddings, groups of Kinnars reach there and groom-Bride takes blessings of them, for healthy and prosperous life after marriage. My own experience, In 1 wedding, I saw kinnars are giving blessings to groom- bride and what i saw, their blessings comes from deep heart. respect to kinnars was never big issue in India, today, I am glad, Govt. opened all ways of education for these people and today, these people are participating in Indian GDP as workers, politicians etc. their struggle is not over, but as a human, they must get which every human deserve. about religions, I am against Bi-sexual people. because, I think, that's immoral and I think, this is sex-addiction.any kind of addiction can be a reason of disease in society. marriage is 1 commitment and groom-bride both are committed for responsibility to stand beside each other and face challenges together with morality. at last, only 1 thing matters, what are morals of every individual human ? maybe it's man or woman or kinnar. Equality vs. Religion, about this factor, I can say only . Equality is possible only by morals, not by fight or court cases. and, when 1 society or country will have more moralistic citizens. there is no need of religion. different cultures created different religions. but morals are fundamentals of culture, Without morals, culture and religion never can touch new heights of humanity. many cultures destroyed in thousands years, reason was immoral things.
