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quote:Originally posted by ArmsMerchant:
At least, not in the sense that most chauvinists mean.
That is, God does not single out or give special preference to ANY race, country, religion, gender, whatever. God created us all, loves us all equally--when Jesus said "the kingdom of God is within you", he meant everyone, not just some arbitrarily-chosen few.
In the highest reality, we are all God--that is, each of us is an individuation of the divine. Jesus hinted at this when he said "all these things I have done, ye shall do also."
What's more, the false idea that God does favor one group has done quite a bit to foster much of the mischief that has been perpetrated over the years.
Thanks to Rocky Anderson, mayor of Salt lake City, for saying "No more God-is-on-our-side religious nonsense."
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Well if you want, God chose the Hebrew as his people, but they kept fucking up and straying away, so God went to the Gentiles (non-Jews), and sending Christ as his son to die upon a tree was the "ultimate sacrifice" which made God available to anyone and everyone, so therefore, you're correct in assuming that God isn't there for just one race (this is if we're talking of Christianity).
Mormonism (which Utah is full of), is a bit different. Until like the 70's, they were against blacks. It was partially religious and partially just so more white people would join the church. Kind of like the whole polygamy thing. They really only did that as an enticement to let more people jump on the latter-day saint bandwagon.
If we're talking about muslims, they believe that blacks and middle easterners were the main races Allah loved, but he did allow caucazoids and chinkoids to join, but if you were an infidel (i.e. Christian, Jew, Hindu) then you were to be killed on the spot (according to radical extremists).
Then you have Hinduism and Buddhism, which follows a little more in line with what you're saying. If Christianity wasn't an option, I believe I'd be a full on Buddhist becuase their religion shows true dedication.
I just choose to believe that Christianity is the way, but it's hard to think I could truly fault anyone for believing in a certain religion (except for Jehovah's Witness and Mormonism... and possibly scientology, those are all 3 fucked up ideas) because each of them have their values and morals that have good things for them. When it come down to the main religions, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism, they all have their pros and cons.
Edit: The way up I broke up my stuff made no sense, so I fixed it.
[This message has been edited by Masero (edited 01-25-2007).]
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