Do religious people have a very loose definition of ‘doing good’?
I mean, those wacky Muslims who crashed those planes into the buildings thought they were doing good, right? The Christians during the Middle Ages who burned people at the stake thought they were doing good, right? Clearly, these actions are not ‘doing good’ at all but are in fact doing bad, very, very bad. So if people can so casually misinterpret ‘doing good’ then is their judgment to be trusted at all?
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EX 20 read the commands..
We're supposed to follow Jesus and not kill anyone and forgive everyone for everything. The Christians in the Middle Ages who burned people at the stake weren't following Jesus. And we're not perfect, we all mess up and do evil sometimes. It's impossible to be 100% good.
Orthodox believe in purgatory, who instructed you they dont? LOL Orthodox settle for the Pope as first among equals, they only question his point of authority. Immaculate theory is a "believe or don't think" undertaking in Orthodoxy, it isnt a settled undertaking via fact a council hasnt been noted as in very virtually 1000 years. filioque isnt relatively a great deal, usually layman cry approximately it yet no longer clergy. nicely now you're making no experience, which Orthodoxy are you touching on? jap Orthodoxy or Oriental Orthodoxy? jap Orthodoxy broke from the Catholic church after the great Schism and extremely virtually rejoined on the Council of Florence, yet everytime a patriarch of Constantinople grew to develop into Catholic he became the two murdered, dumped in reformatory or exiled. Christianity technically became united until eventually the Sassanid Empire began persecuting Christians and instructed them to nationalize the church or be seen brokers of Rome, so they broke from the Catholic church and grew to develop into the Assyrian Church of the East. that's the commencing up of while Christianity had an valid chop up. Orthodox do evaluate protestantism to be a heresy, you for sure have been fooled by skill of somebody. Orthodox believe except you're Orthodox or Catholic, you will hell. that's the Protestants who for the main section are the excuses for secularism, the Islamic invasion of the West, gay marriage, abortion.
Oops, sorry about all that, we had a poor translation for a few centuries. Instead of "love thy neighbor" we got "bludgeon thy neighbor". Hey could've happened to anyone translating a manuscript in 1/2 light after a couple casks of mead & ale.
Don't worry, we're all better now and determined to smite// I mean Save the world! Onward Christian Soldiers!
ya. people do things that they think are the right way to go. everyone interprets things differently. thats why God gave us the Bible and the Ten Commandments to make it clear to us what doing good and doing bad is.
Hitler banished religion. He thought he was doing good by murdering eleven million people, right?
See how this stuff isn't confined to religion? people can be crazy, period.
Read Hitchen's book! He claims that "religion poisons everything"!
the rough translation is "me me me, its all about me"