Saturday, August 14, 2010

Beliefs and Freedom to Believe As You Will

I also don't believe in proselytizing one's religious beliefs...unless one presumes to be here on earth solely for that calling. I resent door knockers telling me they feel their religion is better than the one I have or choose not to have.  While spending inordinate amounts of time spreading the word of "God", one is not spending the time to live and realize the unique life that God has given you: to experience, learn, and be the you as intended by your choices in this world.  Also that you could, just possibly, not  be experiencing this world fully aware and alive just because you are numbed and spending all of your time preparing for the next.  When I write "you",  it is just in general to anyone who I see proselytizing to a fault. I do believe it is good to share with others your own beliefs and blessings but not to feel superior to those of another with or without their own beliefs and blessings.  We have no right to pass judgment on another unless it is a court of law and you are the judge.   Like Mother Teresa said "If you judge people, you have no time to love them"
 
It is not good to be too emphatic about our beliefs such that we invade the personal beliefs of others with endless argument and over persuasion because it may have the reverse effect in many cases. Your listener gets turned off by you.  
 
Persons want the freedom to live and make their own choices based on input they have freely chosen as relevant.  The brain attics are filled differently in free thinking intelligent persons while common stuff is found in followers who chose to let some one else think for them and have become cultists.  God wants spiritual fruits and not religious nuts....
 
' The first condition of proselytism among the Jews was, that he that came to embrace their religion should come voluntarily, and that neither force nor influence should be employed in this business. This is also the first condition required by Jesus Christ, and which he considers as the foundation of all the rest:—If a man be willing to come after me.....

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