The New Interfaith Generation

We need a world wide massive effort to educate people as to how different identities evolved and how (and why) it is wrong to hate people who are different from us.

This is an interesting article. Religion is only one form of identity humans have.

From paleolithic times, human populations have grown, migrated to differing environments, and in the process given birth to more than 3,000 different languages, cultures, and innumerable religions--resulting in the creation of competing identities.

Consider the racial, linguistic, class, caste, nationalistic, religious, and sectarian identities that have given rise to ethnocentrism.

This has perpetuated deep-rooted prejudices resulting in deplorable atrocities.

In India, the upper castes (Brahmins, Rajputs, and Kshatriyas) consider 240 million Dalits as untouchables and consider them to be polluted even if they come across their shadow.

The genocide in Darfur is both linguistic and ethnic in its character.

We need a world wide massive effort to educate people as to how different identities evolved and how it is wrong to hate others.

Eboo, there was the case of the Jewish lad that got taken to the mosque by his Muslim friend. The Ayatollah did such a good job explaining the faith that he joined up. When he got home he told his parents thinking they would join too. Instead they beat him. When they finished he was crying and decided to leave home for good. Putting himself a safe distance away from them he cried out, "I've been a Muslin less than an hour and already I hate Jews."

The end of hate begins where?

PaganPlace, PaganPlace, PaganPlace,

"Claptrap"?? I am educating whomever and saving them a lot of money i.e. they don't have to buy books extolling the virtues of the listed religions. I would list "paganism" in the synopsis but there are simply too many cults.

And please no more Wiccan spells. I am immune due the protection of my guardian "pretty wingie thingie".

I'm not sure if you would have *noticed* if he answered you the *first* time you spouted that claptrap, CCNL, never mind the subsequent nine thousand times.

PaganPlace, PaganPlace, PaganPlace,

Apparently you read at Mr. Patel's mail. Shame on you!!!

And one assumes Mr. Patel is "leaving" with his laptop so one assumes he will be reading comments while he is "away".

We await his response. He has never answered similar requests even when he was "home". Maybe he will have more time when he is on vacation. Sure hope he has not gone to some added Islamic brainwashing training camp.

As for a new generation, though, I think it's plain that for those who don't want to use an imposed identity as a place to hide, that's exactly what we'll see. I think it's the kind of thing that even those of us in our own generation who may feel enlightened about the matter really won't quite live in the same world as those who come up to *choose* true cooperation.

And if I live to see that day, I'll be the happier for it.

" Concerned The Christian Now Liberated:

For Mr. Patel only: (response requested)"

He just *said* he was going away. Why you still think you can direct only certain people to read the exact same things you write every time Mr. Patel posts aside, do you even *read,* at this point, CCNL?

For Mr. Patel only: (response requested)

The Interfaith Generation only needs to know the following:

The Flaws and Errors of the Major Contemporary Religions-

1. Abraham founder/father of three major religions was either the embellishment of the lives of three different men or a mythical character as was mythical Moses, the "Tablet-Man" who talked to burning bushes and made much magic in Egypt.

Many of the 1.5 million Conservative Jews and many of their rabbis have relegated Abraham to the myth pile along with most if not all the OT.

Current crisis:

Realization that the Jews are not god's not chosen people.
simpletoremember.com/vitals/ConservativeTorah.htm

2. Jesus was an illiterate Jewish peasant/carpenter/simple preacher man who suffered from hallucinations and who has been characterized anywhere from the Messiah from Nazareth to a mythical character from mythical Nazareth to a mamzer from Nazareth (Professor Bruce Chilton, in his book Rabbi Jesus). Analyses of Jesus’ life by many contemporary NT scholars (e.g. Professors Crossan, Borg and Fredriksen, On Faith panelists) via the NT and related documents have concluded that only about 30% of Jesus' sayings and ways noted in the NT were authentic. The rest being embellishments (e.g. miracles)/hallucinations made/had by the NT authors to impress various Christian, Jewish and Pagan sects.

The 30% of the NT that is "authentic Jesus" like everything in life was borrowed/plagiarized and/or improved from those who came before. In Jesus' case, it was the ways and sayings of the Babylonians, Greeks, Persians, Egyptians, Hittites, Canaanites, OT, John the Baptizer and possibly the ways and sayings of traveling Greek Cynics. www. earlychristianwritings.com/theories.html

For added "pizzazz", Catholic/Christian theologians divided god the singularity into three persons and invented atonement as an added guilt trip for the "pew people" to go along with this trinity of overseers. By doing so, they made god the padre into god the "filicider".

Current crises:

Pedophiliac priests, atonement theology and original sin!!!!

3. Luther, Calvin, Smith, Henry VIII, Wesley et al, founders of Christian-based religions, also suffered from the belief in/hallucinations of "pretty wingie thingie" visits and "prophecies" for profits analogous to the myths of Catholicism (resurrections, apparitions, ascensions and immaculate conceptions).

Current crises:

Adulterous preachers, "propheteering/ profiteering" evangelicals and atonement theology. .

4. Mohammed was an illiterate, womanizing, lust and greed-driven, warmongering, hallucinating Arab, who also had embellishing/hallucinating/plagiarizing scribal biographers who not only added "angels" and flying chariots to the koran but also a militaristic agenda to support the plundering and looting of the lands of non-believers.

This agenda continues as shown by the assassination of Bhutto, the conduct of the seven Muslim doctors in the UK, the 9/11 terrorists, the 24/7 Sunni suicide/roadside/market/mosque bombers, the 24/7 Shiite suicide/roadside/market/mosque bombers, the Islamic bombers of the trains in the UK and Spain, the Bali crazies, the Kenya crazies, the Pakistani “koranics”, the Palestine suicide bombers/rocketeers, the Lebanese nutcases, the Taliban nut jobs, and the Filipino “koranics”.

And who funds this muck and stench of terror? The warmongering, Islamic, Shiite terror and torture theocracy of Iran aka the Third Axis of Evil and also the Sunni "Wannabees" of Saudi Arabia.

Current crises:

The Sunni-Shiite blood feud and the warmongering, womanizing (11 wives), hallucinating founder.

5. Hinduism (from an online Hindu site) - "Hinduism cannot be described as an organized religion. It is not founded by any individual. Hinduism is God centered and therefore one can call Hinduism as founded by God, because the answer to the question ‘Who is behind the eternal principles and who makes them work?’ will have to be ‘Cosmic power, Divine power, God’."
The caste/laborer system and cow worship/reverence are problems when saying a fair and rational God founded Hinduism."

Current crises:

The caste system and cow worship/reverence.

6. Buddhism- "Buddhism began in India about 500 years before the birth of Christ. The people living at that time had become disillusioned with certain beliefs of Hinduism including the caste system, which had grown extremely complex. The number of outcasts (those who did not belong to any particular caste) was continuing to grow."
"However, in Buddhism, like so many other religions, fanciful stories arose concerning events in the life of the founder, Siddhartha Gautama (fifth century B.C.):"

Archaeological discoveries have proved, beyond a doubt, his historical character, but apart from the legends we know very little about the circumstances of his life. e.g. Buddha by one legend was supposedly talking when he came out of his mother's womb.

Bottom line: There are many good ways of living but be aware of the hallucinations, embellishments, lies, and myths surrounding the founders and foundations of said rules of life.

I hope that the interfaith generation would do what has always been done in America: separation of state and church.
What is worrisome to me is if values of one faith would be so 'holy and true' they should be on top of the pyramid of societal values.

I pray(!) that the interfaith generation would defend and strengthen the belief that America is based on 'what works', not on what 'ought' to work.