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Welcome to our blog, Man needs God
And this post, more religious discussions
Religious discussions two
This religious article is being written to
continue our discussions on all sorts of religious issues, as it is necessary to
widen our base, therefore we are going to bring other people to discuss some of
those issues because we believe that a group discussion may be helpful to
understand what people may think about religions.
As you know dear readers, in our last
article we have outlined a few things about the need to discuss the religions
problems that exist today, therefore, I have invited a few religious friends to
have a friendly chat or discussions about these religious issues.
So, let these discussions begin by
informing our friends what we would like to talk about today.
My personal introduction
My dear friends at this meeting today I
have something to tell you, you see, it looks like that I need your help, so
let me briefly explain. As you all know already I am writing these religious
articles and because the matter is so complex I would like to ask your opinion,
because opinions count and what you are going to say could help me. You see I
see problems ahead with today religious beliefs, so, I wish I could come up
with a solution to today’s religious problems. Some of you might say why you
have to worry about these public problems? I know you are right to say that,
but somehow I am being driven by my inner self to do this, so, it is not easy
to just forget about it. Anyhow, what I would like here is to discuss with you
these problems and see if we could come up with a solution, or perhaps a
suggestion about which way to go, so the knowledge or beliefs of each and every
one of you could be very useful to say the least, this is the main reason why I
have invited you to come together at my place, apart that we enjoy to stay
together and talk about anything at all.
Anyhow, now that we are here I invite you
to discuss our religious beliefs and I ask you not to hold back on anything
that comes to your mind, because you and I are here to find and perhaps suggest
new ways of dealing with this very old religious
problem, as you can see in our last article if you follow our religious
writings we have said that we are trying to come up with a way on how to
discuss religious issues without upsetting very religious people, therefore we
need to do it in such a way that would not upset religious people.
Now, I would like to ask you to have your
say, if you would like to take part in this undertaking and talk about all
existing religions and what they mean to you? Therefore I would be asking you
in turn to have your say if you are taking part in these religious discussions.
I know some of you don’t know what to say today, but perhaps later on you want
to say what could be on your mind.
Anyhow today to begin with I have already
asked my dear friend Mark to have something ready to say to you all, so that
these religious discussions may really begin. So, Mark please let we hear what
you have to say?
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Mark religious speech
Mark opening speech
Dear friends, I don’t really know how to
start with, but first of all I need to say that I feel honoured to be the first
to be invited to speak to you about religions.
So, today we are going to speak about all
sorts of religions and what we think about them, here I have to say that with
so many religions around it is hard to start in any way; and also, here I have
to say that although I know a bit about religions from some reading I have done
a while ago, I have reason to believe that I don’t know enough to positively
assure you that what I am going to say next is right or not, it is just the way
I see religions, and you have to accept it as it is, because as it is, it is
just a way of how I see religions today, perhaps tomorrow I may have to change
my views and beliefs, who knows?
In order to start my religious speech I
have chosen only a few of the main religions that I am going to talk about; but
first of all I have to say that religions for us humans are necessary, as we
feel this in-borne need to belong to some sort of religions, because we have
always felt the need to believe in God and something supernatural that would or
could help us when we feel unable to cope with something that is or seems to be
stronger than ourselves.
Having said that, now let us see how some
of the main
religions have
set themselves up, in order to achieve that and be able to explain to their
people their religious beliefs. Anyhow in my speech here I am going to be brief
and therefore I am only talking about the main beliefs and from where they seem
to have started. As we all know, or perhaps I should say that we all should
know that the most important two religions of the world today are: The
religions that come from the Bible and Hinduism, which have split and evolved
to other religions, of course there are other religions but we could say that
they are a minority, and there are of course the old pagan religions that are
not used anymore, since Christianity was able to replace them fully.
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Now, let us start with Hinduism
The Laws of Manu is a Hindu religious book where the great sage Manu is being asked from other sages, and here is described most of the religious facts.
I am starting with the Hindus religions just
because it is believed that they are the first to be written in a text, or bits
and pieces of writings that later on would become a written text.
One of these books that I have read is, The
Laws of Manu: The Laws of Manu explained in a nutshell that an ever existing
force or energies has always existed, in the great darkness that existed before
the world was born; this Self existing force or energy called (Svayambhu or
something like that.) These existing energies were so complex that they
were/are unknowable and unfathomable, anyhow this field or force of energy in
the beginning seeded an egg and this egg became Brahman the progenitor of the
whole world, Brahman split in two and created the world as we know it. Of
course there is a lot more to this great Indus religion, specially how the
people and the different cast were born, and we will come back to discuss it
another day, but this is somehow how the Hinduism was started.
As I said in the beginning we will be
talking only about the very main parts of religions in a nutshell, because
every religion has a never ending story to tell, and also Hinduism is a very
complex religion; for instance, if we want to find out and write the names of
those Indus religions and their gods, it would fill many pages.
Anyhow, another of these religions that
came from these Indus religions is Buddhism; at the beginning it was part of
this Indus religions, but Budda set it up in a more advanced way, Budda is born
in a royal family in 624 BC so he is a prince, he was named Siddhartha, he was
born with his own destiny, as he was going to be the one that knows everything,
the enlightened one and the founder of the Buddhism.
Today one of the best known religious
leaders of Buddhism is the Tibetan Dalai Lama. There is a lot more to say about
this religion, but this has got to do for the moment.
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The old
western religions
Paganism was the old western religions
The pagan gods as some of us would know
when we learned history
Before Christianity, while in Asia Hinduism
was one of the most important religions; in Europe were the pagan gods. Some
people say that in the beginning of paganism, it seems that one of the oldest
and most powerful gods was Saturn; this god Saturn had three sons, that one day
replaced Saturn as the king of the gods: the first son of Saturn was Jupiter
who became king of the gods who lived on Mount
Olympus Greece, the second one was Neptune who was king of the seas, and the
third was Pluto king of the underworld or the dead. There were lots of other
gods, goddesses like Apollo the sun god, Mars the war god Eros and Venus the
gods of love and many gods and demigods and others that filled the void of any
supernatural beliefs. But I believe that it would be better for me to come back
another time to talk about them? Or perhaps just we have to let them be the way
they are, since these Gods have been replaced with a new and very powerful God
in the western world. However let us have a quick look at them.
Some later Olympus gods, if you look for more details how it all started use the link that we have attached in The Primordials
However we have found a hub that is very
interesting and we would like to partly say a very few things about it, and
then give you the link to see for yourself: (and we quote)
The Primordials
Before there was anything, there was Chaos. Unlike the Chaos that
Egyptians knew as the beginning of all things which represented disorder, the
Greek concept meant a state of nothingness.
From Chaos there came Gaea, also known as Earth, Tartarus, the deepest
pit within the ground, Erebus who was darkness, and Nyx, or night. These four
beings were called the primordial deities.
This link above is the link for this hub
called, “The Golden Age: The First Greek Deities”
We hope it works for you.
We believe that this post is becoming too
long, so we will continue these religious discussions in our next post called,
The western world religions, where we will be talking about the Christian
religions, starting with Abraham; See you there.
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Man
needs God
More religious discussions
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time with, The Christian religions
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