True. I personally consider it as beliefs more than practice, i should do both but well.. haha
?? There is no "Islamist" lol, there is only Muslim
You're right.Missed that one =D.
Okay...guess i have a couple things to say now.lol.
To the guy who says i view religion ONLY as praying, wrong, praying is an important part of religion...as it's written. and if your not one of those rule bending christians (you most likely are considering i've never met a STRAIGHT UP christian) you would believe that as long as you worship god as he says to, your prayers will be answered. In your story "God" sent many chances for the priest to be saved, he was just stupid. Where were the chances to save my grandmother??? NOWHERE. okay moving on
God can't make the impossible come true only because you pray.That was the point of it all.I'm really sorry about your grandmother,but i didn't meant to say that she didn't take the chances she was given.Maybe the doctors dind't do all they could do,maybe she was at a point were physicall recovery was impossible.Christianism isn't about living forever.When someone dies we say that he or she is "in a better place" meaning he or she has gone to heaven.We believe that this world is important,but that even tough the body may decay,our soul is eternal,and heaven is the place where it rests.(sory if i sounded a little cursi or stuff,i can't help it sometimes).
My point with the story of the priest was that religious peopple don't just pray to get results we work hard for them.Sometimes getting to a satisfactory result is not possible.If your grandmother was beyond recovery then there is nothing that can be done,i see praying is an act of faith that is usefull when there is a matter of "tweaking the circumstances".But praying won't get you trough an exam,there are plenty of intelligent and respected religious peopple among the scientific comunity like blaise pascal,einstein (tough i believe he was agnostic instead of jewish wich means that he neither accept nor denies the existence of god),donald knuth....etc.Praying did't get them to pass their math's test that's impossible.
And to he who is trying to understand his religion through his own interpretation of it, thats why i said what i said. your twisting it, subconsciously or otherwise, which ONE is a sin in itself, and TWO only points out that not even the follower can believe all the craziness.
Hmm,no,it doesn't work like that.Religious texts are hundreds of years old,and had to undergo a lot of translations before they reached our hands,you cannot interpret them word by word,any religious person will tell you that (i'm speaking for the bible because it's my religious book,i don't know much about the others (unless you count the Tao Te King)).I understand atheists see religion as "peopple who pray to get their ressults",but it's not like that,religion (at least my own personal vision of it) is the seek for god,the search for rules that go far beyond what's considered 'legal' in a determinate society,rules that every person must follow to be in peace with the others.
Speaking of wich....¿Have you read something from Friedrich Nietszche? ¿Can you explain it to me word by word? ¿Or you just read the sentence "god is dead" and think that's all he ever did for philosophy? Some say,that that sentence refers to the time in wich it was written instead of an insult against religion.Philosophy is not an exact science either,if law was an exact science there would be no such thing as jurisprudence in your country.There isn't one single correct interpretation of religion.
