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| Anonymous |
| 03/22/04 at 04:03:46 |
| hello what are the benefits of religion? I don't mean just Islam but religion in general. Are world conflicts a cause of religion, past and present? Has world religion made a largely negative contribution to world history? Afterall many wars such as the crusades stem from religion. Please help!!! |
| 03/22/04 at 04:04:40 |
| Anonymous |
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| Kathy |
| 03/22/04 at 08:57:16 |
| The benefits the Islamic religion has had on me is focus. Because, unlike other religions, it is not only a religion, but a way of life. I find the structure is good for me. The pillars are tools given to me to help me along the right path. Without them I would most deffinately get lost. |
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| theOriginal |
| 03/22/04 at 10:48:52 |
| [slm] Interesting question. My take: Historically, human beings have needed religion, even before the evidence of any of the Abrahamic faiths. Even the founding "democratic" society of the Roman empire had a complete set of mythology which allowed for the common person to turn to something in order to fill a void. If you follow a religion, it becomes your passion, your sustenance, and plainly your way of life. It is THE common bond between you and another set of people. Perhaps by knowing that you only belong to something Divine, and that you are not alone in this, it connects you with other people. So then, it is only natural that when something is so dear to you, you want to protect it, cherish it, propogate it, die for it...and that coupled with the idea that this is all for a Divine cause, there ain't stopping it, really. So yes, I think differences in religion causes conflict. But that's only natural. If you had a baby, and someone wanted to kill it, you'd become pretty violent yourself. In the case of God, for a lot of people, God is more important than your children, your parents, your friends, anything or anyone. I think it's only natural. It makes me think, Islam preaches so much peace and goodwill, and so we, as Muslims, are bound by this contract of being loving, gentle, kind, and caring. Perhaps the reason was to counter this passion, which has the chance of turning morbidly violent. Wallahu Alam. All of a sudden, I lost my train of thought. Wasalaam. |
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| sal |
| 03/22/04 at 15:13:45 |
| Well what do we mean by religion first? If and yes since religion means a bridge between ALLAH and his creatures . We cant comunicate with ALLAH with out religion other wise we would lose the faith in ALLAH It is exacatly as our daily life . we cant live with out constitution and regulations so relgions are the link between the messangers who brought to the people what to do and what not. Imagine a people with out leader etc. so what is the use of law forinstance? It is the same as this As for Islam It is a complete constitution ,history and sceince and imgaine again how the world would look like without these factors. But via ISLAM we are for example christians in term of believing in jesus and all the messengers till we reach our first father ADAM. So in this sense the benefit of religions are because they told us where we came from and hence Unify us under The belivers in ALLAH unless we want the separation under different faiths but not religion |
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| se7en |
| 03/24/04 at 18:13:50 |
| hello, I think there have been a lot of wars fought in the *name* of religion to promote a particular agenda, just as there have been wars fought in the name of other ideologies, such as democracy, secularism, communism, etc. but that doesn't necessarily put the religion at fault. you have to look at the political, social and economic context of the conflict before drawing such conclusions. peace |
| 03/24/04 at 18:15:24 |
| se7en |
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| Abu_Hamza |
| 03/24/04 at 19:32:30 |
| Hmm. Wars have also been fought for wealth. Does that mean money, wealth and property has no benefit, or is inherently evil? |
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