Religious choice
Watch this postIf you didn't have a choice but had to pick between being a practising Muslim or a practising catholic, which one would you choose?
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Personally, I don't have a faith, I ever have, so I don't understand why religion still persists.
they take differing paths to achieve this goal.
Religion is about using the concept of a deity to control and manipulate it's followers.
Technically there is no right/wrong religion as belief(of a deity) is about faith. The existence of a such a being is theoretical ,as it can neither proven/disproven. Ironically ,as most religious literature preaches brotherly love, if such a deity does exist, this deity is shaking their proverbial head at the hypocrisy of the human species.
This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not be false to any man,
Farewell , my blessing season this in thee!
Hamlet
Polonius's last piece of advice to his son Laertes, who is in a hurry to catch the next boat to Paris.
God is certainly not great!
Perhaps the writer means "if you could only choose between Muslim or "practising" Catholic"
and if you were being given such a choice why would you put forward Muslim or "practising" (one day I'll get it right) Catholic - or are we considering a world where there are only two choices - I can't see that ever happening.
Sadly "religion" is at the heart of most of the worlds/peoples problems - but if you want to discuss faith, now that, I believe is a different discussion.
Organized religion is about control and manipulation and has little to do with a Deity,
except to further it's own cause.