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Originally Posted by blueash
I am sorry. I may have made you angry. I do not have all the answers. I admire those who seek far and wide to find answers to the unknown. You believe all the answers can be found in one old book. I don't accept that limitation on the search for wisdom. I do think I am more than a cricket. I thought your book said the same, something about dominion over them. And I think the earth circled on its axis and revolved around the sun for many billion years (maybe except that one day when Joshua made the sun stop) We are never going to agree on the truthiness of religion. We can agree on the golden rule, on the values of honesty and sacrifice for community and family. Is that enough for you? If I am wrong and am to spend eternity in hellfire for being a good person who denied God his obeisance then I am sure I will find myself in the company of many fine people. I love my children whether they love me back or not. I would hope a God worth worshipping would outdo me in that regard.
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This is kind and fair. Not all of us are engineered to be scientists and our abilities to conceptualize many things are very different. We cannot always make another understand the things we think we know and we are forced to take others the way they are, hoping they will do the same and accept us.. That is why I like some of the old wisdom, the tradition passed down from generation to another.
It probably will not be important for most of us for the rest of our lives whether we think of ourselves as all primates, and somehow related; the fuzzy ones and the unfuzzy ones.
When I went to school, all I remember about Muslim people is that they were called Moors and were responsible for the arch and had to be tortured by the Spanish to find out stuff.
I wish that there would be a way to teach differences in philosophy and religion fairly in public school, but most of us don't want our children to be taught that another way is the "right" way. I know I didn't. I would handle that myself...but as a result, we really DON'T know much about other peoples religious beliefs and other peoples lack of religious beliefs.
We cannot, should not, will not be all alike. But we can work to be accepting of each other.