[SaintessHeart]

Originally Posted by erneiz_hyde

Still, though it's a shame how religion has stained the earth with the blood of our brothers. Wasn't religion supposed to bring peace of heart? Yet look at the world now.

The world is a crapsack to begin with. It is the smaller things in life that make it beautiful. In war, you find men throwing themselves on grenades to save the lives of their teammates, mounting .50 cal rambo-style agains hundreds of enemy fighters, and volunteering to go on snatch patrols nobody wants. In peace, people start wars against hunger in another part of the planet that is totally none of their business, work like slaves for an estranged old stranger and volunteer to help out in schools doing what the school staff should in official events.

It is a funny world we live in. Sometimes the bigger things in life look like shit, but on a micro scale it makes differences to lives.

The Moslems are terrorizing the planet,

They aren't. Extremist retards are. I live in a society where Muslims, Hindus, Chinese and Christians are forced to live together. Draconian as it sounds, but nonetheless effective in fostering understanding.

People are lazy to understand others by nature. They won't bother, unless they are forced or there is a benefit.

the Christians priests are getting increasingly gay,

It's actually allowed by that guy up there. Read /2 Samuel 13/ to /2 Samuel 9/.

and the Jews are fucking racists. Nowadays religion looks like a mere tool to justify every act of infidelity that ethics were unable to justify.

Jews AREN'T racists. They are just paranoid. Read the entire history of Jews from the Crusades vs the Saracens period, the Roman Empire period (there is a small part of the Byzantine Empire about the Fiscus Judaicus) through the rise of the Ottoman Empire, then into World War 2, 1948 Middle East, Six Day War, Yom Kippur War, until today.

You'd be surprised at how the rest of the world treated them for their eccentric culture. This is the reason why the international Jews consider each other to be blood relations.

You'd be surprised that your judgement is completely skewed.

So, who's the racist in the end?

*sigh* Though I wont deny that not few people's were really saved because of religious peace of heart, I wonder what went wrong with the rest of the world...

Saved or not, it is good to at least READ THE FUCKING BOOK(Koran/Bible/Torah/Bhagavad Gita/Diamond Sutra/etc) FROM END TO END before we develop a mentality. There is ONE thing that is certain if there is a omnipotent-omnipresent-omniscient supreme being up there : nobody has the damn right to judge others for their actions other than that person up there. We can only do our best to preach good (while practicing it of course!), and whatever evil shit someone else does can only be judged by that person. So as the 2/3 Commandment states :

You shall not make wrongful use of the name of the Lord your God, for the Lord will not acquit anyone who misuses his name.

Commanding a person to obey your whims because you feel that he's doing contrary to something "God" preaches is making wrongful use of his name - you are judging in his/her stead and dispensing justice as you see fit, not him/her.

Conclusively, we shouldn't bother about whether we are going up or down afterlife. Life is short and everyone lives only once, so why don't we live our lives to the fullest by showing some compassion to others, and just follow the Golden Rule?

Originally Posted by Haak

Well anyway, I think the significance of Prophet Muhammed (PBUH) being illiterate was when he was meditating in the cave of Mount Hira and Angel Jibreel (Gabriel) commanded him to read the first revelations despite him being illiterate.

I am more inclined to believe that the Angels read the revelations to him word for word.