Thursday, December 17, 2020

"Recompense to no man evil for evil" - Forget about any other Matters in your Religion except the God




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Forget about any other Matters in your Religion except the God

According to Wikipedia, "Freedom of religion or religious liberty is a principle that supports the freedom of an individual or community, in public or private, to manifest religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship, and observance."  But, it is often neglected in most of non-Christian, non-democratic, and non-culturally modernized countries.

Christianity: According to the Catholic Church in the Vatican II document on religious freedom, Dignitatis Humanae, "the human person has a right to religious freedom", which is described as "immunity from coercion in civil society". This principle of religious freedom "leaves untouched traditional Catholic doctrine on the moral duty of men and societies toward the true religion." 
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_religion#Christianity)

Judaism: Possibly because of this history of long term persecution, Jews in modernity have been among the most active proponents of religious freedom in the US and abroad and have founded and supported anti-hate institutions, including the Anti-Defamation League, the Southern Poverty Law Center and the American Civil Liberties Union. Jews are very active in supporting Muslim and other religious groups in the US against discrimination and hate crimes and most Jewish congregations throughout the US and many individual Jews participate in interfaith community projects and programs.  (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_religion#Christianity)

Islam: Conversion to Islam is simple, but Muslims are forbidden to convert from Islam to another religion. Certain Muslim-majority countries are known for their restrictions on religious freedom, highly favoring Muslim citizens over non-Muslim citizens. Other countries[who?] having the same restrictive laws tend to be more liberal when imposing them.  (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_religion#Christianity)

However, Judaism denies deity of Christ Jesus, claiming that Christ Jesus cannot be even the Son of the God.  Islam also denies deity of Christ Jesus.  As long as Judaism and Islam cannot accept the doctrine of Christianity, real freedom of religion cannot be possible among the Jewish community and the Islamic community.

On the other hand, Christian churches never teach that Judaism and Islam are right and authentic and it is worth believing in them.  Jewish people and Muslims are enemies of Christ Jesus, they imply.  As long as Christians despise Jewish people and Muslims, there cannot be true freedom of religion.     

From the historical point of view, Christianity has dominated the world, since it was adopted as the state religion of the Roman Empire in AD 392.  Since then, the religion has contributed to success of Europe without interruption.  Europe has never been conquered by Jewish people, Muslims, Hindus, Mongols, or Chinese.  Rather, European powers colonized various regions in Africa, Asia, and Americas.  Most European Christians did not want to convert to another religion being practiced by people ruled by them.  On the other hand, there has been strong unspoken pressure on Jewish people and Muslims to inhibit or prevent conversion.

However, there is no proof that any religion is wrong or right.  It is because the God had not shown the proof over and over again clearly to all the mankind.  The God is, so to speak, silent.  It is as if the God were waiting for the mankind to realize truth.  Then, what is the truth?

The answer must be meaninglessness of human religions.  The truth is the God and only the God.  Compared with the magnitude of meaning of the God, any human religions must be zero.  A man can be accepted by the God not because he believes in any specific religion but because he believes in the God.  In this context, the freedom of religion is the secondary matter.

If you are a Christina, you had better believe in the God more than any other Christian.  If you are a Jewish man, you had better believe in the God more than any other Jewish man.  If you are a Muslim, you had better believe in the God more than any other Muslim.  And, if you concentrate on the God, you would forget about what religion you belong to.  Or you had better forget about any other matters in your religion except the God.

Ideally, if you are asked, you should answer that you have forgotten about what religion you belong to, since you have been absorbed too much in thinking of the God.  

Conversely, men might have already caused offence to the God by thinking about their own religions but by spending less time in thinking about the God.  In addition, there is no freedom for believing in Satan or money, although a man of any religion would love money and thus Satan. 

In China, actually it is forbidden to freely believe in and practice any religion but a kind of religion called the Chinese Communist Party doctrine.  In this context, it may be thought that it is natural that corona-viruses were generated in China as a kind of God's punishment. 

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Romans 12 King James Version
14 Bless them which persecute you: bless, and curse not.
15 Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep.
16 Be of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits.
17 Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in the sight of all men.
18 If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.