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2step-4eva	Date: December 21, 2005 @ 8:26 AM how about this for world peace? what would happen if the leaders of all the major world religions got together, and created one new religion, that everyone in the world, who wanted to follow a religion, could follow? there would be no more wars and death and violence caused by petty disputes between differing religions that are essentially all exactly the same! of course religious leaders like the pope would never agree now to distort the teachings of their religion, but maybe if the idea was promoted, over time, people would come to see that maybe it could bring us peace, and if pressure was applied from the bottom up, maybe world leaders would see that it is the best chance for peace? views?
zedsalt	Date: December 21, 2005 @ 10:54 AM The tenets of faith that seem to be universal to all of the major faiths also appear to be of the greatest importance. The differences are superficial and insignificant, and stressing them goes against the fundamentals of every major faith. The people who exploit these differences are not acting like people of faith. There already IS one world religion, really...provided one includes Atheism and personal faith systems under that banner. Now, if people would just act accordingly...
GeneHilbert	Date: December 21, 2005 @ 11:15 AM I always thought very much the same thing...... The only conclusion reached as to why this concept is foreign to most and never has any possibility of being indoctrinated, is the intuitions are entrenched and will never submit to loss of power, control or influence. Simply – they have one thing in common they all believe people are sheep….. needing to be herded. And sadly….. some really do…..
TameasDust	Date: December 21, 2005 @ 12:11 PM they already tried that but no one wanted to join ...
desiderata	Date: December 21, 2005 @ 1:08 PM @ TameasDust. He's right. There are groups promoting a generic "world religion." The problem with this is two-fold. First of all, religion become so watered down that it holds no true significance anymore. Suddenly the world religion is the least common denominator. Second of all, world religions don't work for the same reason that world governments don't work -- people around the world, and even within a nation, believe and desire different things.
onewhodreams	Date: December 21, 2005 @ 1:22 PM Uhm... this is biblical prophecy.
Svensta	Date: December 21, 2005 @ 1:23 PM Religions are, by design, xenophobic. It is the primary purpose of organized religion, after all. Control through differeniation. Us versus them. Heathens and true believers. Better we try to eliminate currency and go to a gold standard. At least that's more achievable. Hundreds of people die daily in the name of religion, even now. Somethings you just don't mess with.
aflunky	Date: December 21, 2005 @ 5:53 PM I'm not one to talk about religion, but I agree with Svensta. In the last thousands of years, billions have died in the name of religion because they strongly believe in their faith so much that they were willing to die for it. If that was to happen, their deaths would have been in vein. Not only that, big religions like cathlics, who seem to thrive on power, would never think of changing things, they know so much that they're not telling us, why? Could it be that they don't want to lose that power they've had for so long? Do you think they would give up their power for their faith? I agree that that would be a good idea, and would eventually help bring world peace. Yet realisticly it's as probable as a woman US president. It may be a good thing, but I don't think the world is ready to accept it.
MinisterofSc...	Date: December 21, 2005 @ 6:36 PM I didn't read any of these posts...they're too long. But, if anyone said "God really fvcks sh1t up...people should lay offa that whole idea for a while" I agree.
KingofSlaves	Date: December 22, 2005 @ 9:30 AM Amen
killtrix	Date: December 22, 2005 @ 12:57 PM You can choose a ready guide In some celestial voice If you choose not to decide You still have made a choice You can choose from phantom fears And kindness that can kill I will choose a path that�s clear I will choose free will. No thanks!We would all be mindless zombie's.Most organized religion's have way to many rules and restriction's.I believe as humans we are bound to are violent tendencies for greed and material possession's. But I do beleive most organized Religion's will cease to exist as we evolve into a higher plain of thinking"Don't get me wrong we will not forget God persae but as we rise intellectually we will be closer than we all know."
TameasDust	Date: December 22, 2005 @ 1:08 PM

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