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ZenDragoness -> RE: Religious Incompatibility (3/26/2008 11:35:40 PM)
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ORIGINAL: slaveluci
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ORIGINAL: ZenDragoness
But my religious tolerance ends with the person i share my life with, because i am not a christian and i do not believe in a higher power it would be impossible to be in love with someone who does
I understand your feelings though mine are exactly opposite. I am a Christian. I do believe in God and I think it would be impossible for me to share my life and love with someone who does not. If not impossible, pretty close to impossible. What definitely WOULD be impossible, would be for me to love or respect someone who would mock or minimize what I believe even if he/she didn't believe the same.
For me, that's what it all boils down to. I absolutely don't care what anyone's personal spiritual beliefs are. He or she has every right to them no matter what they are or how much they differ from my own. What I can not stomach is someone who constantly mocks, criticizes, belittles and/or laughs at another's personal spiritual/religious beliefs. As disgusting as they may find religious "fanatics," I find it just as sickening to take every opportunity to mock someone's else's beliefs simply because you don't share them. That says so much about the one doing the mocking. If they were comfortable in their own beliefs, they would have zero need to mock mine.
So, though it would be NEAR impossible to share my life and love with a non-Christian, it would definitely BE impossible to share it with someone who had a need to minimize the beliefs I hold dear..................luci
Thank you slaveluci for your words, i was very early awake and not fully able to express, what i meant.
There are fanatics in everything. My aim was to reach exactly what you put so eloquently in words. My religious/spiritual beliefs are holy to me and i do not want to be mocked about them, in fact it hurts me very deep, i met so many believers of mono theistic religions with whom i shared essential beliefs and we got along just fine, but there are other people who can not stand, that there are human beings with another belief system. The same goes for politics or the Right Way to Catch a certain Fish.
The strangest thing that happened to me, was many years ago, i had a good friend who got busted in morocco for trying to smuggle 27 kilos of Marihuana to germany. He spent 9 months in a jail there and in his first letter, that came through asked for Nutella (something sweet to put on bread) and something against lice. His girlfriend flew out to morocco together and on the expense of that dealer who lured Florian to do such a crazy thing. As he came back from morocco, he was nearly autistic and we decided, it would be the best when i live with him for a while.
I am not a drug user. We had a agreement, no drugs in the flat and he broke it again and again. Then one unfine day i came home and Florian and two other people where in the kitchen, on our table lay round about 1,5 kilo marihuana. And i told them, you have 1 minute to leave, i will call the police. One of them tried to talk to me about my missing tolerance and how can i judge them .....
The moral of the story: Even drug use can be religion.
To be clear about it i smoked maybe 20 times dope as i was younger, but i never liked the drug. But i know that people with terminal illnesses or with heavy chronic pain can benefit a lot of cannabis. I even understand when people use it, from time to time.
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