Religious issues of today
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Religious issues of today
Dear readers, we
have already written many articles about our religious theory; so, this article
could be the end or the beginning of our religious theory, as these talks about
religions would never end; we have said our religious theory because there are
several religious theories and many religions as well in the world today, check
these links below taken, From Wikipedia, the free encyclopaedia to see what we
mean.
Sociological and anthropological metatheories of religion generally attempt to answer at least two interrelated questions:
Now let us go back
to our theory, in this article, we would like to explain why we are going
through all these troubles by writing these religious writings and our religious
theory; we would also like to explain on what views these religious issues have
been written; we would like to point out that mankind needs God/gods and
therefore religions, because we have had this need since the beginning of the
world as we know it and this includes also these days.
We all very well
know that religions have been built in such a way that they are able to guide
the people in a way that would help regulate the way of life of the believers,
but there are other benefits as well, since religions gets people together and
they are able to support each other in a friendly way within their religious
community, therefore religions are there for the benefit of mankind, but sometimes
it doesn’t work the way it should working.
As we can see today
some of the existing religions are not doing what they are supposed to do,
because they have not been set up to deal with today’s religious problems and
therefore a new view of religious beliefs needs to be set up, so that religions
can still do what they have to do for the future benefit of mankind.
This might seem to
be a new approach to some of us, but it is not, there have been many attempts
to change some religious ways in the past, but until today they have not
completely succeeded because the existing religions have opposed it strongly,
some of these attempt can be found in the works of philosophers a couple of
these that comes to our mind are; friar Giordano Bruno and Baruch Spinoza, see Philosophy of Spinoza. And many others
philosophers that thought of God as pantheism, which in a way God is everything
and is everywhere, instead of believing that God created everything, which if
we use our common sense, they are very likely right in thinking that God is
everything.
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Why we write these religious articles
The reasons why we
are writing these religious articles, we believe that there are several reasons
why we are writing these religious articles, you see when we look at the news
these days there are always some religious happenings that seem to be out of
line with what religions are all about; because of these happenings that seems
to happen rather often, people start thinking that religions are not as useful
as religious leaders want us to believe they are, so we have started thinking
that perhaps, Baruch Spinoza, Giordano Bruno and other philosophers might be
right and God might not be exactly as described in the Bible, so it would be
useful to review our religious beliefs including those beliefs that come from
the Bible.
Now if you have
read some of our religious hubs, starting with Prayers for Reconciliation and many others,
you might have noticed that this is what we are trying to do, we are suggesting
to modify religions in such a way that they could agree with each other more
easily, therefore our views that God might not be the creator, but rather God
is pantheism and therefore God is everything put together.
Anyhow this is only
one of our ways of seeing how religions could be changed and still help in the
future and our way is not the only way that these religious modifications can
be carried out; you see all what we know is that something needs to be done,
because things are changing and therefore these changes bring in other chances
including religious beliefs.
You see, for these
reasons people start moving in other directions; we who believe in God and
religions would like to stop them doing that, because we would like to keep
religion going on indefinitely, but it is not easy to do, because this is not
just the fault of the people that move away from religions, but it is most
likely the fault of the religions themselves that have not changed like
everything else is changing. Of course we have to admit that religions have
always done lots of good things in the past, but every now and then they miss
the point and do terrible things that some people don’t like and don’t agree
with them. We have also to admit that there have been some really nasty events
when religious leaders have led people through religions to do these deeds. You
can compare these bad deeds or events with what is happening today, when people
kill other people in the name of their God, anyhow this is what is happening
today, but, let us see also what some of these deeds were starting from the
past.
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Bad religious deeds
Bad religious deeds
Let us see those
useless and unjust things people have done or are still doing using religions,
if we start from the beginning of the world and look at various ways of
religious beliefs, we will find that in the beginning people used even human
sacrifice to appease the gods or whatever they were afraid of. Then thanks to
Yahweh God of the Israelite this practice was not used in the religions that
followed, since Yahweh substituted human sacrifice with animal sacrifice and
because of this change humanity has learned that human sacrifice is the worst
kind of religious practice.
There have been a
few more events that people have done in the name of God and religions that
need to be mentioned, just to compare how these things come about and when they
happen they seem okay; but, then with the passing of time we can see that what
we have been doing in the name of God and religions a lot of times have been
wrong.
Now let us mention
a few historic events that have happened in the past; take the crusade for
instance, at the time that they were going on the Christian religions were
thinking that they were doing a great thing in the name of God going to
Palestine and free the Holy Land from the Saracens; which in reality is what is
called Islam today. Of course there was a starting point in order to wage this
Christian holy war, and this was started from the invasion of Jerusalem and the
killing of thousands of peregrines from the Turks; all this was followed by
nine crusades and many people died for this cause; by today we could even ask
whether these crusades were necessary or was just another mistake that
religious people made in the name of God and religions.
One of the worst
aspects of religions executing people has been the witch hunt that lasted for
centuries and it is estimated that 40,000 to 100,000 people were executed, just
because these people seemed to do things that religious people thought were
contrary to religious beliefs, so they labelled them as witches that worshipped
the devil instead of God. The religious leaders of those days all they needed
to do was to prove that these persons were not following religions the way they
did to label them as witches, and then they would execute them; most times they
were burned alive, which one can imagine how cruel it was.
One of the better
known people that suffered under those inquisitions was the burning at the
stake of Giordano Bruno 1548-1600; a Dominican friar, philosopher,
mathematician, astrologer and astronomer; his views of the universe were
different from what the Bible and therefore the religious leader of the day
believed; and also his views of pantheist beliefs, which are different from the
Catholic beliefs got him in trouble and he was burned at the stake. The Roman Inquisition
A better known
person today than Giordano Bruno was Galileo Galilei, 1564-1642 who was also a
physicist, mathematician, astronomer and philosopher; he was condemned from the
inquisition but escaped the dead penalty, but he had to spend the rest of his
life under house arrest where he wrote most of his works that we know today.
When we look at
history we would be able to find many more examples that would undermine the
religious credibility of today, but this is not going to say that we should not
follow religions, because religions have a very useful role in guiding mankind,
even though as we have seen above they make several mistakes. Now this is all
what we are going to mention about the past, but let us see if we are any
better off today.
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Today’s religious dilemmas
Today there are
still religious problem going on every day of our lives, because the world has
not yet found a better way to deal with them, we believe that as long as
religious beliefs stay the way they are, it will be very hard to find any sort
of consensus, as there are too many issues that need to be looked at and
perhaps modified. So let us mention a few of the religious issues that seem
really to upset the religious community of the world today.
We see that there
are at least three or four religious issues that come to our mind everyday of
our lives, because of these religious issues we believe that religions need to
be modified in such a way that become more acceptable to the community at
large, so let us look at these issues:
One of the first
issues that come to our minds is that the religious system is failing to do
what has been designed for, in the case of the Catholic Church the clergy is
corrupt in many ways and one of the worst things in this religion is the
existing paedophilia in the clergy. Our view on this issue is that whoever
practices paedophilia should be severely punished, first by the church by
excluding them from their clergy and then by denouncing them to the authorities
that would send them to prison if they need to be so punished. Now let us say
what else can be done to prevent that; here our views are that if the clergy is
allowed to get married this problem of paedophilia would become a lot less,
because those physical needs would be satisfied in a normal relationship. Here
under are a couple of links that you can use to check this out.
We could say a lot
more about these religious issues that the Catholic Church, and not only the
Roman Catholic Church but also other religions fail to address, but we have to
leave it for another time, since there are other things to mention, first of
all it seems to me that religious leaders try to avoid these issues if they
can; so, instead of fixing them they do something else to sway the attention of
the people from these bad issues, see what this new pope is doing:
Now, I hope you see
what I mean, when we say that they try to change to attention of the people;
you see, while I have been writing this article, the Pope head of the Roman
Catholic Church has been visiting Brazil; so, first of all let us see what is
happening today in Brazil, since this Pope visit seems to be ending well, even
if there have been some ups and down during the visit; after that we will go
back to talk about the atheist and the religious extremist, and then we will
try to see what could be done for the future benefit of all mankind.
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Today great religious event
Dear readers it
might seem to you that most times in our religious writings, we are talking
about the church in a negative way, but we are not, since our aim is only to
point out what seems to be wrong in some parts of religions, so that something
could be done to fix it. Now today we have some good religious news that we
would like to share with you all and this is the visit of Pope Francis in
Brazil.
We may say that
this visit has been very popular if we just look at the crowds that have
followed the Pope and there is no doubt about it. Pope Francis seems able to
attract lots of people, especially the poor people that really need religions
to give them hope in life, because as we all know, God is hope for those that
need hope most.
Here-under is a
small part of the news report on this event, if you would like to read the
report how the visit ended, click on the link below.
RIO DE JANEIRO, Rio
de Janeiro — Pope Francis left Brazil after leading a giant beach mass for
three million pilgrims, ending his historic trip to reignite Catholic passion
with pleas for a humbler Church.
The first Latin
American-born pontiff flew back to Rome hours after addressing a sea of
faithful who waved flags, danced and chanted "long live the pope!" on
the crescent-shaped shoreline of Rio de Janeiro's Copacabana beach.
Now that we have
talked about the present news, let us go back and talk about the atheists and the
extremists.
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The atheist and the extremist
The atheists and
the extremists are two groups of people that stand at the most opposite point
of the religious spectrum, but at the same time they attract a lot of attention
to themselves, because both these groups are damaging religions: we know that
the atheists would like to destroy religions and any beliefs about God openly,
because they do not believe there is God; at the opposite side the religious
extremists are using religions with the beliefs that they are even helping
religions, while they are really fighting for their own advantages against the
other groups, so they have set everything up as if it is the will of God that
they do these atrocious deeds and kill people in the name of God and religions,
so when we look at these two groups we feel the need that something needs to be
done, in the hope that these damages to religions could be stopped.
So what can be done
is the question here? Well we have to say that there is no easy answer here,
but we need to try; as you have seen from what we have already written, we are
trying to suggest a new supper religion that is able to connect all existing
religions together, and at the same time it could help the existing religions
to be modified in such a way that it would become harder for religious people
to use religions for their own advantages.
Our views are that
if religions could be modified, as we have suggested in our theory of,
reconciliation of the universe, and then made to work in such a way that the
extremists would not be able to use religions to do their violent deeds, also the
atheists would not be able to say that God does not exist, because God would be
all the life forces energies of the universe that make life possible on earth
and therefore God exists in the form of energies; now because of all these
modifications that could and would take place, it would become easier for the
existing religions to modify also without upsetting the believer too much. Now
if that could be done, then religions would still exist mostly as they are
today and they will work in the future benefit of all humanity.
This might be all
for the time being that we need to say today and we will be adding other
religious articles if and when we see the need, at the same time we will be
editing the existing religious articles that are already in hub page, in the
hope that we will be able to make a clear picture of what is being said.
May God bless us
all?
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