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Originally Posted by romansh  Hi Lecter .... thanks for this post/video |
Thank you for watching it and responding
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The similarities and different interpretations means at least one of the religions must be wrong?
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Well, duh!
Again this video wasn't supposed to prove one side right and the other wrong. But you are obviously right that either one of them is wrong or both are.
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I could not help thinking that blind acceptance
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Why do you call it blind acceptance? Most of the Muslim speakers you heard talking weren't born Muslim. So they don't follow blindly whatever religion they were born into. Some of them were probably atheists. However something convinced them this religion was true and so they followed it.
Of course this video wasn't about that subject at all, nor is this thread about which religion is true, or why I claim my religion is true. I guess that belongs in another thread
That's probably why you didn't hear any questioning voices. It doesn't mean Muslims don't question what they are told, it just wasn't the right place to do so in that documentary, know what I mean?
After all the Qur'an criticizes those who are blind followers.
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What really concerned me were the little children receiving their religious education
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That's a very good point you bring up.
In my opinion however, I don't see anything wrong with bringing up your children to follow your religion, per se. You might ask, but why can't they know about agnosticism, a Hindu would demand they hear about Hinduism as well, and what about Judaism? See where I'm going with this?
These are just children, as long as we also bring them up as to learn how to think for themselves and to gain access to all kinds of knowledge and information, I'm pretty sure they'll make their own decisions once they grow up.
Plus you have to understand why we teach children these stories, it's not really about telling them this is the truth, full stop. It's rather about what we can teach children from these stories. Like we used to learn how Jesus Christ was humble and good to the poor, and how he was kind to his mother and so on. It's really about those morals and values we want to tell children about.