Religion
Blue Leaves
29-05-2006, 18:07
Do we get to choose our religions and follow them?
I mean, are we not hindered by other people in order to follow our lives?
I'll finish this soon.
Respond.
Keruvalia
29-05-2006, 18:09
Do we get to choose our religions and follow them?
Yes, of course.
Even if you live somewhere that following a certain religion will get you shot, you choose.
The Alma Mater
29-05-2006, 18:14
I mean, are we not hindered by other people in order to follow our lives?
Of course you are. Even ignoring things like hate for "the bigots" if you do not have the religion most of your neighbours have, there are also more subtle hindrances. Assume for example your holy day is tuesday; while you live in a country where sundays are the official day off.
Blue Leaves
29-05-2006, 18:26
ok, let me revise, because I was slapdash whilst writing that one.:headbang:
I meant, do we have tolerance as a nation?
Do we separate religion from state, and that is no.
If we did do so, gay marrige would be legal.
We don't have tolerance because even today we have racists and bigots,
and some are dejected for what they believe!!
We might say we are free, but under the veneer of serenity, we really have none. We can have free speech, but there are laws within that main law.
There is an equal rights movement for both sexes, but even today in sports dominated by men are there still degradings of opposite sex.
WE aren't a perfect country, so shouldn't we be focusing on us as the United states, or as individuals?
Kryozerkia
29-05-2006, 18:34
People who are isolated, or rather not faced with conflicting but convicingly different perspectives often just follow the religion imposed on them because there are no alternatives and dissent is a cultural taboo. This doesn't include people who have been exposed to other belief systems and still elect to keep theirs; this refers to those who are forced to follow a religion because of cultural and peer pressure from within their own community, or even nation.