WHAT IS LOVE ?

[marmel75]

Define "peace"? Not in the textbook way, but define it universally?

OK....

 

[amaterasu]

Define "peace"? Not in the textbook way, but define it universally? It's difficult to do so because "peace" to one group, or one nation, or one culture....is something different to another.

- For example, the people who bombed the US on 9-11 did so out of "peace and love". To THEM, they were acting on behalf of God and love for their own people. To the United States, they were terrorists out for blood. Which perspective is right and which one is wrong?

- For example, when the US bombs Iraq, they are doing so out of "love" for the people of the US in relation to trying to create stabilization and acquire oil. But to the people getting bombed in Iraq, the US is similar to a terrorist. Which perspective is right and which one is wrong?

But God is Love!

 

[marmel75]

You have gone backwards CC. Let's not forget religion is NOT a pick up and put down, pick and mix philosophy. It's about your soul either being eternally damned, or eternal life. Choosing another sub-sect of the cult could, by your beliefs, result in eternal hellfire. Let's not forget that every single country which adopted Protestantism in Europe rapidly out-accelerated the older faith. Catholocism is closer to Islam in as much as it prizes the church as a quasi-state.

I'm sorry that you made this conversion, because when you see the pope in his gilded palaces, the monumentally huge problem of Catholic priests abusing childen (with verified cover-up in which the pope, God's representative on earth, was complicit) you do wonder what the poor carpenter of Nazareth who preached giving up your worldly possessions and protecting the innocent would have thought.

Catholicism is pure, unadulterated sophistry, in my opinion. Big on theory but no different in it's magical thinking to pagan fairy stories. At least Lutherism and Protestantism attempted to rid the church of the hocus-pocus of the deeply corrupted Catholic structure in Europe, it's a crying shame it's big, hollywood iconography and mentally palatable philosophy took you off the path of reason into a deep stupor of the puppet show.

Have to say I am with Julian, Catholicism is so removed from Jesus Christ it might as well forget him and set up on its own!

For the most part and with few exceptions all religions revolve around teaching people how to live good lives and be good people. How is it creation stories, parables and various other things are all similar in many of these religions? Its like different beings all went out and told different groups of people the same things.

Basically religion can be boiled down to: dont be a jackass and help others out. Everything else is bullsh!t

 

[PeasantPlayer]

Experience it and tell us for yourself