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Originally posted by saralk
Religion can be a great thing, i myself am a hindu happy diwali. And i find it extremely hard to believe most of the stories of creating in Hinduism, however if you take the philosophy behind most religions you will find they are beautiful things.
For example, in Islam there is something called Zakat, Muslims give some of their disposable income to thier local Islamic community (in some Islamic countries it is tax), typically 2.5%. And if someone in the community loses their job or falls upon hard times, the community will help him/her out, get them back on their feet, pay their bills while they help themselves.
Now isnt that a really nice thing.
If people stopped thinking in their own self obsessed world just for one minute, the world would be a lot happier place.
Religion is indeed a great things at some points in our lifetime, happy diwali by the way... I myself am A roman catholic, and I go to church every week, but i've been thinking about it, and it really is hard to grasp the concept, we can't be ensured about the creation and so on, so why do we drag ourselves to watch a man preach about something that he's preached about every year, we've heard it all before! Now i'm not offending my religion or anything, because that would just be stupid, all I need to see is one bit of proof, that God is real, and that proof is definitely
NOT the bible. How do we know that it all isn't just one big set of stories, in 2000 years, people might think that Harry Potter is a prophet, for all we know, Jesus could be an ancient Harry Potter, we can't be sure. Most of the stories in the bible have meanings and some are quite beautiful yes.
I think that what the muslims do in Islam is a type of great generosity to their neighbours.
In the end, religion all links up, but contradiction is before us constantly in every different religions 'bible'.
