can there be peace between religions without truth being the foundation?
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Yes, I think so.  If people can put aside their biases and stop letting one incident determine their view of a religion.  If people could learn to respect each other's differences in faith and realize that no matter if a person is Christian, Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu or whatever we are all seeking salvation from a higher power and that at the hour of our death we are judged on our actions throughout our life. If people could let go of the idea that their religion is the one truth then there can be peace between religions. \n\nWilliam, ignorant people like you make me sick!!  Islam teaches that Allah did not mean for everyone to be Muslim, because if that's what Allah wanted it would happen.
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I do think that having a deeper understanding to the believes of "The Other" whether Muslim or of any other faith is Important. Dialogue helps clear out points that are not understood and will show that in truth we have more things in common than differences, it helps us realize that we are all human beings in the end... Yes dialogue and harmony will bring peace to the world because it will make us know that there are no stereotypes, that a whole Faith and culture can't be judged by a small group's actions and that all Faiths have more common grounds but we just focus on the differences.
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some religions may not accept such beliefs.
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First we should stop understanding that religion is about Peace.\nIt is about knowing oneself, understanding oneslf and becoming who and what we are. This said, once we do, we are usually in Peace.\n\nSecond - Not all religion promote self understanding and inner Peace. Some have very specific instructions as to what to do in certain cicrumstances when one is faced with people from other beleifs. This means that if there are radically and very picky and emotially hurt people, they can apply those aspects of their scriptures and try to make them real.\n\nThird - Most all religions sees their books as a guidance and God graces passes through it. Islam's Koran is seen as the word of Allah, thus making it difficult to say that radical Islamist muslims are not following their book\n\nFourth - Many evangelical groups also focus on the Old Testament and apply intolerant and less compassionate aspects of God. In my book Jesus came to toss that understanding of God aside, but that is another subject.\n\nFifth - The Sikhs also have a sacred book and it is seen a their Guru. However, that book is treated and respected in temples...\n\nI beleive that learning how to communicate tames physical violence and brings a better way to find common grounds to share. Why we are having so much issues is when we blob religions together thinking that they give the same message of Peace. This illusion is not helping currently and creates insecurity, misunderstandings (such as the Cartoons incident) and bigger chasm. Many people really adhere to their religion and feel threathen when it is placed as something equal to other beleifs such as science, secularism, ideological and philosophical contributions to society.\n\nSo, no, religions absolutly do not have the same basis and even Goals.
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Are you kidding?  Factions WITHIN each of those religions contradict each other you can't expect separate religions to agree on anything!
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0%, no one religion holds the entire truth...
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Nah.  I tend to question any links between God and any religious organization that relies heavily on violent means to an end.  To me, if the basis for any religion is not the promotion of world peace, harmonious existence, and peace with nature, the religion is not a true reflection of God's will.
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No. Because then there would be sects within that religion. One group wouldn't like how another worships...then one group will think another isn't devout enough. Then, bammo! War. Again. Still. sigh.\nReligion only leads to war because of human beings.\nPeople are the root of war. Not any one religion.
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I believe that most religious leaders attempt to convey the message of their particular faith, or at least their interpretation of it.  One of the problems with faith is that, in order to embrace it, one generally believes that it is truth.  As we are humans, and endlessly fallible, it is difficult to see how any of us could ever grasp the "truth", as demonstrated by billions of believers in disparate faiths.  As fallible beings, we also would make mistakes in interpretation, even if we knew the truth.\n\nAs religious leaders often use their faith as a rubrik to understand current events (using ideas and pracitices as old as millenia to interpret cloning for example) they often have to make some difficult decisions regarding moral courses of action.  Within the framwork of belief, these "moral" leaders have to decide if contemporary events are moral and how to guide their congregations to look at these issues.  Even if one takes this view (which assumes that all religious leaders are intellectually honest and aren't swayed by emotions, greed, racism, etc) it is easy to see how even civil wars are fought between two sides that are Christian, for example.  \n\nIf the religious leaders of a particular faith feel threatened by an outside faith they might have feel the need to resist the threat rather than be forced from the path of truth.  In Russia, during the reformation of the Orthodox church in the time of Ivan the Terrible, the old believers, who would not accept the changes in the church, burned themselves to death rather than face torture or punishment from the church.  We have seen holy wars between Islamic  countries, sanctioned by leaders of the faiths as necessary within their framework of what is right and moral.\n\nEveryone has a belief system that acts as a compass in the world.  What is necessary in order for everyone to do as you ask, is for everyone to embrace tolerance and forsake greed and competition. Also, everyone would have to either stop needing to believe that there is an "absolute truth" or at least accept the fact that what is true for one man is not for another.  Unfortuantely, I'm afraid that faith and the abovementioned are almost defining characteristics of our species and we have a long way yet to evolve.
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I understand what you are asking.  This is why all religions can't be true.  There has to be one religion that is true, and teaches God's will.  Otherwise, your thought experiment becomes true and sin becomes subject to YOUR belief weather its a sin or not.
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO\n\nread this please:-\n\n"Let There Be No Compulsion in Religion."\nSurah Al Baqarah, verse 256  the holy Quran\nby Sheikh Sami Al-Majid \n(with notes by Sheik Yusuf Estes)\n \nWhat Does Islam Say About "Forcing People in Religion?"\n\nA basic and fundamental truth established by the sacred texts of Islam (Quran and Hadeeth) is that: - "No one can be compelled to accept Islam!"\n\nIt is the duty of the Muslims to establish proof of validity of Islam to the people in order for the truth to be distinct from falsehood. Once that is done, whoever wishes to accept Islam may do so and whoever wishes to continue upon their belief may do so. No one is to be threatened or harmed in any way should they chose not to accept Islam.\n\n\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nNote: It is not only forbidden to compel someone to accept Islam - it is impossible to do so.\n\n \nread more here in this link\n\nhttp://www.islamtomorrow.com/kill.asp
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Truth and Justice are two sides of the same coin called God which is the sustaining force of the whole Universe. Hindu jurisprudence is not a separate subject from Hindu Metaphysics. In the Taiteraya Upanishad the Eternity, Wisdom, Truth is called the other name of Dharma. Dharma in Sanskrit is not religion in English. It is a word without an equivalent in the entire western vocabulary.\n\nSaddam Hussein has got what he deserved. The publicity it has got will only strengthen people's faith in Dharma which is Truth and that alone prevails.\n\nWhat next?, is a very big question. It is beginning of the end. The end will be bitter for both the West and the Islamic community.
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I hear you!  A little more tolerance would go a long way towards a much more peaceful world.  Unfortunately, many people just can't seem to see beyond their own limited point of view.  They have taken the word of someone who has taught them their religion like sheep instead of doing any real research on their own to find out what it is that they personally believe.
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No because peace to one person could be hell to another.
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Yes. I have researched Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity (orthodox, mostly), Islam, Zoroastrian (tho there is not much info out there), and many other ancient religions. I've learned that we are alike in our general beliefs for how a person should live (such as not to lie, kill, cheat, etc.). I've also learned that most of our differences lie in how we worship of how we attain truth, faith, and God.\n\nHere is a quote from Kahlil Gibran translated, "...each religion is merely a drop in the ocean of what is True faith..." - the human mind cannot grasp all that is there....
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Yes, far less war and conflict. If we want peace, we need to set our differences aside, and religion is included. Just look at the major cause of conflict over human history (crusades, etc). Religion is the true evil.
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You want examples of non-religious governments not being peaceful?\n\nNazi Germany\nStalinist Russia\nImperialist Japan\nMao's China\nPol Pot's Cambodia\nCastro's Cuba\netc.\n\nBut, hey, don't let facts interfere with your firmly held belief that it is religion that is the cause of everything bad with the world.