Quote Originally Posted by Breukelen advocaat
Listen, they are insane. When I was a young person, and far less knowledgeable of the world, I read all kinds of crap from Sufis, yogis, mystics, swamis, moslems, jews, christians, hare krishnas, various "spiritualists", and other assorted nut jobs. It's a waste of time. In your case, it's worse than that - because you're obviously influenced by this garbage. Buddhism is about the only one I found that has a halfway decent basis to it, and that's stretching it some.

Religion is a fraud, and there's nothing to their claims of "special knowledge". It just does not exist, and never will. You can deny this, but it will hit you someday.

When you reach forty or so, youâ??ll be completely different. There is no way that youâ??ll still believe that Islam is â??beautifulâ?ť - that is, unless you commit jihad first.
Remember how Hitler said that communists and Jews were behind the problems of Germany? Now Bush says that the "evil freedom hating Muslims" want to kill us. A lot of parallels here. Also, we have fundemental Christian preachers saying that the Anti-Christ will be a Muslim and all of this garbage and that Islam is one of Satan's handiworks.

The Bible has its fair share of violence and hatred in it, yet I do not see Bush or the media condemning that!!

As I have said before, you need to read these books with spiritual eyes and not literal ones as Jesus did.

Religion is like a door that only gives us a hint to the divine. It is the outward form of worship, as spirituality is the inward form of worship, as it accepts all religions as legitimate explainations of the Divine. No one religion is greater than another, but its what brings you closest to the Divine.