Respect and support

😠 FOOLS! 😆

^ That is not very respectful or supportive.

Coming straight from the horses mouth? 😬

Originally posted by Alliance
Coming straight from the horses mouth? 😬

Are you calling me a horse? 😆

allegedly

Originally posted by Wonderer
It is important to me that we don't criticise and judge others, in fact, we must respect and support all other religions.

This is a call to all religions out there to be respectful, tolerant and supportive to all other religions.

The most important things in life are love, kindness and compassion and helpfulness and I feel we can all try to practice this more. There is all too much fighting in the world between religions and it is totally unnecessary.

I wish all you other religions out there great happiness and peace in your heart and the wisdom not to go out on a mission to criticise other religions.

We are all human and we fail many times in our attempts not to judge those who think different than we, but we can at least try harder to create harmony between all religions. 🙂

If people do have respect other people's faith/religion then love, kindness etc spread around but if we could see they are boastful, disrespecting and slandering the Law of other faith then we should expose thier distortions and teach them with great compassion. This is what we called Dialogue.

Originally posted by mahasattva
If people do have respect other people's faith/religion then love, kindness etc spread around but if we could see they are boastful, disrespecting and slandering the Law of other faith then we should expose thier distortions and teach them with great compassion. This is what we called Dialogue.

The Buddha NEVER taught us to fight back. Remember, Samsara is finding fault with others.

Originally posted by Wonderer
No, you are wrong, I'm affraid. The Buddha teaches us that we should only teach the law to those who enquire. He also teaches us that we should not feel negative when somebody else even cuts off our limbs or take advantage of us in any way, because that is attachment. We should only feel compassion to all other beings, including our enemies and there's no need to defend the law. We must support other religions even though we think they are false.

The Buddha NEVER taught us to fight back. Remember, Samsara is finding fault with others.

I know. As far as i am concerned, we should not label ourselves or as what u said shouldn't call as Buddhists. I speak of myself(buddhist)...sometimes i speak of other(non-buddhist). I am neither Buddhist nor a Christian. I am the way i am.

Speaking is not believing.

Originally posted by Alliance
Speaking is not believing.

Please make more sense in the future. 😉

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You can speak something (Buddhist or Christian) but that does not mean you believe either one.

Originally posted by Alliance
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You can speak something (Buddhist or Christian) but that does not mean you believe either one.

Thank you. 😄

Originally posted by Wonderer
It is important to me that we don't criticise and judge others, in fact, we must respect and support all other religions.

This is a call to all religions out there to be respectful, tolerant and supportive to all other religions.

The most important things in life are love, kindness and compassion and helpfulness and I feel we can all try to practice this more. There is all too much fighting in the world between religions and it is totally unnecessary.

I wish all you other religions out there great happiness and peace in your heart and the wisdom not to go out on a mission to criticise other religions.

We are all human and we fail many times in our attempts not to judge those who think different than we, but we can at least try harder to create harmony between all religions. 🙂

Damn, so it's up to me to criticise and judge?....that's a huge task, you know.

I tend to agree with Cline. Beliefs don’ t merit automatic respect because some beliefs are immoral, evil, or just plain stupid. Beliefs may be able to earn a person’ s respect, but it’ s an abdication of moral and intellectual responsibility to automatically accord the same respect to all beliefs.

If believers want respect, then they must be treated as adults who are responsible and culpable for what they assert, for better and for worse. This means that their claims should be treated seriously with substantive responses and critiques, if criticism is warranted. If believers are willing to present their position in a rational, coherent manner, then they deserve a rational and coherent response, including critical responses. If they are unwilling or unable to present their views in a rational and coherent manner, then they should anticipate being dismissed with little afterthought.

BUMP....but I agree.

I figure that competition is healthy...

Originally posted by Storm
I tend to agree with Cline. Beliefs don’ t merit automatic respect because some beliefs are immoral, evil, or just plain stupid. Beliefs may be able to earn a person’ s respect, but it’ s an abdication of moral and intellectual responsibility to automatically accord the same respect to all beliefs.

If believers want respect, then they must be treated as adults who are responsible and culpable for what they assert, for better and for worse. This means that their claims should be treated seriously with substantive responses and critiques, if criticism is warranted. If believers are willing to present their position in a rational, coherent manner, then they deserve a rational and coherent response, including critical responses. If they are unwilling or unable to present their views in a rational and coherent manner, then they should anticipate being dismissed with little afterthought.

I concur...

Also if a person really has that strong a Faith, then he or she should not be so quick to be offended by criticisms or attacks on thier religion/beleifs, but be ready to defend thier Faith and remain confident enough not to back down...

It seems to me that the people who are quickest to get offended when thier Faith is attacked are the people who don't have that strong a Faith in the first place....

Debators like JesusisAlive, Peejayd, and Regret seem to have a strong enough Faith that no matter how many times you or I attack, critique, or insult thier religion, they still defend it constantly...and do so as diplomatically as possible....that i Admire.

But then you have debators like Feceman who just tend to insult you back, possibly because they have no other way to defend what they beleive in. 🙁

Originally posted by Regret
I figure that competition is healthy...

I like competition.

I know I have not been on here much as of late. But the last few days I have been popping in. I am a little sad. There is many people of many different faiths or beliefs on this board and in the Religion section. But even today as I am reading through threads, I see that people post a topic with questions or discussion points and the very next post is someone name calling or blasting them for their post. I understand that this is a place for discussion...but why run people into the ground right off the hop? What happened to repsect and being polite?

Please, someone help me out here and talk to me about this. I don't understand it. If someone starts a serious post here and you don't have a nice thing to say or contribute...then why do you people bother? Just to get a rise out of people? To be plain mean?

It breaks my heart to think that people start threads that mean something to THEM and the very first responder knocks them down.

It doesn't matter what belief system we all have...no one deserves to be run down.

Actually, I disagree. I think people with opinions based on fallacies or poor logic deserve to be corrected. Respect goes for grey areas. There is nothing to respect about ignorance.

I think this coming from you is just hilarious.