Which Religon is the Most Mature?
Religion & Science
Which Religion is the most Peaceful?
Which Religon is the Most Mature?
Which Religion is the most Peaceful?
- Islam
- 17 votes
- The Jewish Religon
- 0 votes
- Christianity
- 21 votes
- Buddhisim
- 54 votes
- Hindu
- 1 votes
- Other.
- 20 votes
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Well when I say which religon is the most mature i mean which one do you feel is the Kindest, most responsible, peaceful and accepting, also if you feel that Athiesim religon you can chose that. I want too know why you chose that group.
Shinsengumi89
Ps. I may be Athiest but i'll just say Buddhisim.
merged: 04-02-2006 ~ 01:53am
Typo Athiesim is not a Religion. Also Consider Past actions not just the current state of the Religon.
Your definition of maturity is irrelevant. Religion is about being correct, not about being peaceful.
sooooooooo, if u say religion is about being correct that doesn't mean that if u chose a side u should be right or wrong?
i dont support ur stand for the thing of being correct... religion exists for teach and to guide, and also to become a peaceful person capable of love each creature on earth...
but sadly i'm atheist like Shinsegumi... and i know what christianity has done to the humanity, and i know what islam has done with humanity... but i know what buddhism has done for humanity... and to correct u, Shinsengumi, buddhism is not a religion is a doctrine, a philosophy, nothin else.
Siddharta was a prophet, but for being a prophet u dont have precisely to be in a religion.
Jesus was a prophet, and he didnt ask to be an icon. sooooo.
ciao
I don't know much about what religions have caused but from my understanding, Buddhism is the only religion that has not caused a war... Correct me if I'm wrong on this.
Absolutely. Anyone who follows a false religion is wrong. That is how these things work.
I do not even want to begin to describe my views on religion about being correct and all that crap, cause it is obvious no religion is correct, never, because there are sets of rules and they themselves, who claim to be staunch, who claim to follow them rules are the first ones to break them.
Vatican priests molesting little choir boys, devoted Christians sounding out racism views.
Muslim extremists who claim to work for Allah by bombing buildings full of innocent lives of "infidels".
No end to it.
On my view at least, maturity does count, and peaceful wise, Buddhism has shown me just how good a religion where there is not even a God to worship can be enumerated as a good example for others to follow.
I have yet to see a modern example of Buddhism being in anycase involved in all the world's stupidity, as well as the basics of it of not worshipping a superior unproven existence being.
(FYI, Buddhism is following the ways and morals of Buddha, NOT to IDOLIZE him, and those who do are a misconception of Buddhism.)
I choose other. Has a follower of the Flying Spaghetti Monster attack someone due to their noodlie beliefs?
Uh huh. Let me guess. Yours happens to be the "correct" one right?
"Those who get instructions directly from the Almighty are twice blessed. They get their orders from the Highest Authority, and the orders are always to do what they would have done anyway."
Boris just because you feel, think, and belive your religon is right dosent make it the most mature even if it was right.
No religion is mature. Its the people who create those "ideas" adn give those impressions. For example ,i dont consider the catholic church corrupt, but many priests surely are corrupted. So its not about the religion but the followers.
When did I say that? Never. All I said was that in religious matters, one religion is right and the rest are wrong, because that is in the inherent nature of religion. One is right, the rest are all wrong. "maturity", especially by your preposterous definition, doesn't even enter into it.
That's a false assertion. Only one religion can be right, but it is possible that all are false. The point of this thread is not to discuss the accuracy of religious beliefs, but rather the "maturity" of it so don't bring up the accuracy of a religion.
I do agree that the "maturity" of religion is irrelevant to it's truth, but oh well. I think we can all agree that Flying Spaghetti Monsterism is the most mature and most valid religion.
The biggest problem I see in people is that they judge a religion by taking a small portion of it's people and then expanding it to the rest, and infact make the religion what the people do rather than what the religion is.
Having studied Islam for a very long time, I find it very mature, but I would only be able to judge whether it's the most mature only by studying the other religions. You can't say that "Christianity" is bad because Vatican priests molest little choir boys, because that is not what the Christian religion is, it's just people following their sick desires, not the religion! The same is for Islam, an extremist bombs buildings full of innocent lives, is not Islam, it's just people making up their own rules that allows them to follow their desire of serving god through violent methods!
During times of war, where most citizens suffer a lot, the most heard excuse is "It's a war, innocent people die", even though they were 'killed'. Islam forbids the hurting of children and women, infact, any innocent soul, even if it's war and they just happen to be in the way! That means by Islamic standards, bombs cannot be thrown unless you're 100% positive that it would not hurt a single innocent soul!
Most religions are mature (although this in itself is quite a generalization), but the people following most religions are not. Religion is no longer what it is in this world. Religion is just a mirage that people use to justify their actions. A sad reality, but true...
First i'd like to say i have nothing against Islam, or Christianity, but when i ask the question about the maturity of the religion that of course includes it's people!
well someone told me that everyone believes in the same god but they practice their beliefs in god diffrently...like how the oceans have diffirent names but they share the same water...its like the same as religions...well i don't know what exactly that person said but i tried my best to remember what that person said....it's something like that
I'm a Christian, but I don't follow a "religion". I believe in faith in God, and that it is a personal relationship, not a group organization or a job or anything. But in terms of "religion" it really comes down to the maturity of those who truly follow it, not those who claim to or put the title of one on themselves. Yes, one faith is right and the rest are wrong. That's not being immature, it's being true. So, I have to say that true Christians are the most mature.
fade not true a religion could be right but ALL could be wrong and what is ar TRUE Christian certianly not as openminded as A true Buddhist. People have claimed to be true christians throughout the ages and killed in the Name of Jesus Christ and they said they were the true christians.
Like I said, it doesn't come down to "those who CLAIM to" be true. Who said anything about open-mindedness? Why should a person be open-minded about something that's wrong or false? The forum asked for my opinion, I gave it, and that was the end of it. I don't want to get into a debate about it because this is the wrong place to do it.
If you carve down to the tenets with no interpretation by those with ulterior motives then all of the religions in the poll are very mature. However those religions have not aged well. Remember that most of the tenets/rules/beliefs for these religions were set in a time vastly different from our own and it was set by inspired humans in most cases not by God personally. That makes those tenets/rules/beliefs subject to error as no human is perfect regardless of what they may think. Figuring out how to seperate truth from intepretation is is the really hard part.
The official stance of Buddhisim is that DNA and Genes do exist not that god created you fully and they except many scientific discoveries
Essentially all religion is incorrect because it is penned by men and not by a deity. Proving the Bible wrong doesn't disprove God's existence - See, if I wrote a book about YOU that wasn't accurate then someone proved that it was bulls**t, it wouldn't disprove YOUR existence, it would just prove that the author was wrong. That applies to all religious texts.
Anyway, In the sense that it doesn't try to force its ideas on you and actually encourages you to question it, I would say that Buddhism is the most mature.
merged: 04-02-2006 ~ 12:38pm
WTF are you talking about? There isn't even one unified form of Buddhism, never mind an "official stance"! The historical Buddha, an actual prince in India, claimed many things to be true but he didn't mention DNA or genes. Since DNA and genes don't concern the soul, and Buddhism (as is most other religion) is about the soul, I don't really see why they would mention that. The only religions that have issues with science are the creationist ones like Judaism, Islam and Christianity. Buddhism is known as the most pragmatic of religions because it's about day-to-day philosophy, not about how the Great Kazmak created the cosmos out of duck shite and jello or something like that.
boy i hadn't heard a joke in a while, this has me rolling on the floor laughing. And following the rigt religion is the only tings that matters? ok whatever helps you sleep at night. Sadly this is th view of about half of americans. Hypocrites? you bet.
You see shinsengumi89, atheism IS on the rise but we'd have a hell lot of more people on our side if it weren't for ignorant bigots like these. As for your original question, though I am an atheist, I'd have to say that buddhism seems to be the more mature religion of the bunch. It teaches the dettachment of earthly things in order to achieve enlightment and improve your spirituality. Unlike christianity, intolerance is not part of this religion. I'm an athesist but I give credit where credit is due.
Intolerance and bigotry are not of mature people.
your idea is flawed, Buddhism has long been a prestiged religion that carries a more idealistic view towards life, by incorporating daily morals and ideals to live one's peaceful life, as well as understand the nature of how the religion works.
The prince may not have mentioned anything about the genes and DNA and things like that, but definitely, because of the morals that the prince has mentioned namely "let all choose to live their way, may you be vegan, or non-vegan, believe in me, or not" he did say this in one of his passages.
He lets his disciples choose how to follow their lives, and allow for better living through understanding and acceptance.
Although it is not a real official stance, it is more on a sub-concious level, accepting what science has to offer as well as maturity and understanding. Hence, true believers will not care a damn for the figurines being teared down and so on, it is more keeping the idea of what Buddhism has to offer, that maturity and understanding is something that NOT ONE MAN today has managed to achieved just as the prince has done.
Plus, I am throughly against your post in sounding out ridiculous connotations of other religions. I think that is disrespectful and if anything it was a stupid post.
If you cannot post properly, don't.
"Intolerance and bigotry are not of mature people." - rsltgo
Christianity is not about intolerance or bigotry. It's about loving others. It's about accepting the person, not accepting there sins. We love people and help them turn from sin to become truly free. All this stuff about churches not accepting gays and such isn't true. A church should be home to everyone of any race or such. I don't believe in "being gay" but I do have friends that are gay/bi. I love them to death, but I don't love the fact that they are gay. I treat them with respect and love, but I also let them know that I believe what they are doing is wrong. Simple as that.