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Pacifist Patriot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-26-05 03:32 PM
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The Religious Intolerance Epidemic
from my website...

"The First Amendment to the United States Constitution says, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.” This passage is typically interpreted to mean the government in general is prohibited from denying these rights, but apparently Cale J. Bradford, chief judge of the Marion Superior Court, interprets the passage a bit differently and exempts the judiciary from the prohibition....."

http://www.unitarianminister.org/may26.htm

Just one small way of dealing with my frustration.
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rock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-26-05 03:45 PM
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1. So the judge is trained in psychology then
Sarcasm. I highly doubt it!
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Tux Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-26-05 10:53 PM
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2. Nope
He just wants everyone to be a fundie so his beliefs can be validated. That is all they want. Under the exterior of a fundie is a scaredlittle child.
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Freedom_from_Chains Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-27-05 10:11 PM
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3. He's just practicing up
for how he will be able to rule on matters once the Constitution Restoration Act is passed.
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dattaswamI Donating Member (103 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-29-05 05:14 AM
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4. UNIVERSAL RELIGION
By Swami

If you say that your religion is the only path to God and that other paths lead to hell, I have one humble question to you. The question is for every religion without any trace of partiality. The simple question is: Today I have heard your Religion and if I follow that, I reach God and if I refuse I will go to the hell for my own fault. This is very much reasonable. But before your ancestors discovered our country, the literature or even the name of your religion was not known to our ancestor and he could not reach God for no fault of him. But your ancestor reached God through your religion at that time.

Even if I assume that my ancestor will take rebirth now and will follow your religion to reach God, such possibility is ruled out because you say that there is no rebirth for the soul. Thus my ancestor suffered forever for no fault of him and the responsibility for this falls on the partiality of God. Had the God been impartial, He could have revealed your religion to all the countries at a time. Had that happened, my ancestor might have also reached God as your ancestor. Therefore your statement proves your own God partial.

The only way left over to you to make your God impartial is that you must accept that your God appeared in all the countries at a time in various forms and preached your path in various languages. The same form did not appear everywhere and the same language does not exist everywhere. The syllabus and explanation are one and the same, though the media and teachers are different. Can you give any alternative reasonable answer to my question other than this? Certainly not! Any person of any religion to any other religion can pose this question.

Moreover every religion states that their God only created this world. Unfortunately this world is one only and every God cannot create the same world. There are no many worlds to justify that each God created His own world. Therefore any human being with an iota of commonsense has to agree that there is only one impartial God who created this one world and He came in different forms to different countries and preached the same path in all the languages simultaneously at one time.

Let this logic sword of the divine knowledge cut the rigid conservatism of the religious fans in this world to establish the Universal Peace. I need not beg all these religious followers to be united and harmonious to each other for the sake of world peace. Such begging appeals are made enough in the past. The religious fans feel that there is no unity really in the religions but they have to be united since their kind hearts melted by these appeals. Thus a temporary change was only brought. At the maximum one generation of the followers got united.

The next generation fights with each other because they feel that there is no real unity in them due to lack of the real unity in their religious scriptures. A permanent solution for this does not lie in the begging appeals, which may or may not unite the followers. Even if the appeals unite such unity is not permanent. If the real unity in all the religious scriptures is exposed through the logical divine knowledge, the followers have to be united for generations together. Therefore, My attack is not on the hearts of the followers through love and kindness.

My attack is on all the religious scriptures through intellectual logical analysis of divine knowledge. The unity of hearts through love can be only temporary. The unity of brains through intellectual analytical divine knowledge will be permanent. Hearts agree but brains realize. Agreement is temporary, but realization is permanent. Thus this is My first blow of My divine Conch shell for the permanent unity of all the religions aiming at eternal Universal Peace.

www.universal-spirituality.org

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