Category: philosophy/religion topics
Do you tend to judge someone else who is not the same religion as you?
I know a few people who are like 'if you are not the same religion as me, I won't talk to you'
I hardly ever judge anyone on the basis of religion. The only time I do is when they're trying to convert me to their beliefs or putting me down for mine. The closest I usually come is judging a certain statement, or group of statements, that someone has said.
heh. hate those people who judge or talk to someone by looking at their religion, beauty or something related to rasism. I was rejected by few people like that. since I'm an indian.
Raaj.
I don't know anybody who shares my beliefs, so if I refused to talk to people who didn't have my beliefs, I wouldn't talk to anybody!
In the context of religion, I may judge people who are of another religion to me if they use that religion to justify doing things that I morally oppose.
While I can't make a judgment of a person's salvation, I think everyone, whether or not they'd admit it, is judgmental to some extent when it comes to religion. I am conservative, and wouldn't attend a church with a woman minister, or that permits gay marriage. Now, I'm not saying people who attend these churches are gonna go to hell, but according to my conscience, I wouldn't attend this type of church. Even oppinions are judgmental, and I don't know anyone who doesn't have an oppinion about something or other. I have friends of all religions though. The above example was just a scenario. Not saying I wouldn't hang out with people whose beliefs were different than mine, as long as we could agree to disagree on certain topics.
I think to say that everybody to a degree is judgemental is lumping the human race with a generalization, and humans seem to never fit the generals when you take a closer look at things. :) I don't judge, but neither do I permit another to press his/her views on to me. Everyone has the right to choose his/her own path, and I don't have to agree or disagree, but nor do I care if others agree/disagree with mine.
I've learned that even though I don't like it or whatever I've learned to except people for who they are. I'll admit that I was one of those people "If your going to get married and your gay your going to hail" Well, in reality people that's doing the talking are going to hell as well so...
So I've learned to deal with those people and be very proud of them because they're happy with themselves. Yes, I do think some things are crazy, but whatever. When you look back on it all they think we're crazy to so...
And I try not to judge so much as for I don't like being judged and I always have to look as if I were in someone's shoes that were having the problems. Anyways, these are my thoughts...
Wow. I can't even explain how that touched me. I've never heard of someone who had the "going to Hell" idea in their minds change their thinking so drastically. It's so refreshing to hear something like this. I think it's people like you who will go to a much better place when their time here is through. I wish that more people could learn to be that accepting of others.
Um, not that it's just that it's wrong period and I'm really trying to cut the habbit of doing it no matter what the dislike of other people may have...
And secondly were you being scarcastic?
No, I was being very serious and meant it as a compliment. Many people who are truly intolerant of others feel they'll go straight to Heaven if they insist that their beliefs are correct and try to change others/refuse to accept them and very few change their own opinions. It's not easy to rethink your own actions and then, while still having your personal beliefs, change your behaviour towards others. That's why I think that it's more likely that someone who does this will wind up in a good place than someone who doesn't treat others with respect.
I don't believe that only persons of one path are going to see Paradise on the Day of Judgement. As a matter of fact, some of the biggest liars and hypocrites I know claim religion...Praise God, Glory be to Him, etc. yet asking me why I didn't dip into the food benefits of the legitimately needy or making negative comments about my daughter when she was still an infant. ?! One is into covering her head and neck with a scarf, but forgot the part about not dropping her drawers for a man other than her husband, and no one knows the i d of her third child's dad.
I was not pleased when a colleague of mine mentioned a former and how mad this girl would get when she'd try to talk to her about God. Shannon was an atheist, and that's fine by me. "Oh, Spongebob, if she's like that about her Creator, how does she treat her own parents?" Maybe this girl is an atheist but believes in treating others as she likes to be treated, I don't know, I didn't know Shannon that well but her beliefs or lack of such really is her business.
How can one human say for sure where any other human is going when they die anyhow. Aren't you just guessing? My impression is, religious folks use "you're going to hell" to mean "I don't understand you" or "I don't like what you said to me" or some such thing. I mean, the way I see it, nobody knows where they themselves are going to end up, let alone anyone else, so telling others they'll go to hell is out of line and may well be your ticket to that very same hell place.