Why should I as an agnostic bear with a street festival/gathering of a particular group belonging to a religion/sect and be late at wherever I am heading to, because of chantings and dancing of that group on the middle of the road? For someone who still moves around mostly by bus, why should I wait for hours, before my bus arrives at destination for a week once a year, during which some religious group has to make it by foot to some sacred place? Tolerance ...
Ok! I understand that each individual needs to believe in something and feel secured to be doing the right things by adhering to a set of rules, other than constitutional rules; whether Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, or Atheism. But to what extent should one tolerate the beliefs of another?
Should a restaurant promoter close his nearly built restaurant because a religious group just found out that they are opening soon next to a plot they own? Because that same religious group intends to build a temple a few meters away from the restaurant, the latter should move even if they are now nearly set to open? If the temple is not yet build on what grounds should the restaurant close? Fearing that your devotees will be affected by the smell of cooked beef (an animal you pray) while coming to the temple you intend to build, the restaurant has to move? If you care so much about your devotees why not build your temple and gather in another location of the island, where neither the smell of beer nor beef would affect your devotees in their attempt to summon God ?
You praise yourself to be non-violent and condemns the killing and slaughtering of animals for the sake of eating. A noble belief in my humble opinion, but unfortunately not a shared belief among everyone. To make your practical non-violent convictions heard, you resort to some other form of violence by crashing through window panes and damage to property? In what way God is supposed to be pleased by your being non-violent to animals through being violent in yet some other ways ?
I am not advocating against any particular religion or sect, but taking as example a recent local event to show my concern about unreasonable practice of religion, and invasion on others freedom!
I feel the same way, and it’s a pity that people use Religion to war, what for, where has it been written that we should make war in the name of God? With great regret I can see that religion has no more the same meaning now, but is merely a word that can mean "cause of trouble"; after reading what you wrote, More "examples in our own country":
ReplyDelete- I found the location of many religious building around town centers is a problem, like during religious gatherings, many cars are parked alongside the road, or on the pedestrian side walks, causing traffic that could have been avoided otherwise.
- Another sad fact is during pilgrimages, we find that many people will walk on the middle of the road without taking into considerations that this type of behavior put their own life and the life of other people in danger, and every year we hear incidents during these gatherings.
Hi Nathan,
ReplyDeletesome good examples you got there, of how overdoing in the name of religion, by some people can cause trouble to others, and in what way is God supposed to be pleased by that? I wonder ...
i guess that the restaurant didnt apear from the thin air, it was first a project, and it was formally communicated to public in 3 major circulating newspaper of its opening location ( as per the rules ) why it wasnt at that time that no complaints was made, only when the project got aprove from the district council and already been built physically that now some people stand up?
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