Religion is based on belief. Belief is the acceptance of something being true, but without empirical evidence. Therefore, just because you believe something, it does not actually mean it is true, it just means you wish to accept it as true.
It always seems strange to me that in a court of law it is necessary to prove something to be true beyond reasonable doubt. But when it comes to religion we have to respect without question the beliefs of someone else. When it comes to religion, if you believe it to be true, somehow it seems to become fact beyond question.
I really do not understand this. It is all the more of a mystery when you have different people of different religions killing each other over opposing beliefs, or even the same religion with different customs: for example - Catholic vs Protestant : Shia vs Sunni.
What is even more astounding is that all these religions preach tolerance, love, acceptance, respect etc etc towards others. Am I missing something here? Also, just because you believe it, that does not mean it is true, so how can you justify killing someone on the strength of something that may not even be true?
This leaves me to wonder how often religion is used as an excuse to kill people you just don't happen to like or agree with on political, economic or ethnic grounds! Or am I just being a little naive here!!!
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