Welcome to our article, Religious function today.
As we have said, we are interested in religious issues, so we want to see what religions do for us and we want to continue to write religious articles. So, let us try to follow what is happening these days in the religious field. Then, we can compare them with our own religious views. Since we want to understand these religious happenings, and compare them with what we know, and our religious theory of, Reconciliation of the universe.
Perhaps to
understand what is going on, we should start to follow religions at the highest
point possible, so, let us follow the pope and what pope Francis does, since
pope Francis is the most important person, in the western religious world. You
see, we want to see and make up our minds if religions are helping us in our
lives; so, let us describe what is happening these days.
Anyhow, pope
Francis, on the 11th of December 2016- During the Angelus made a
special appeal for prayers for the people of Aleppo and Syria, and for all
those other people affected by this war, which has gone on for years, with
disastrous consequence and many innocent people have died. We outsiders find
hard to understand, if this war is a war between the rebels and the Syrian
government, because they don’t like Bashar al-Assad regime. Or there are other
things that we don’t know, like the rebels that include religions, therefore,
they are religious rebels, who wage war because they want their religious ways
imposed on other people.
Let me explain,
in the news that we read or listen to, we hear that there are wars going on in
the Middle East, sometimes they talk about, the Syrian government with the army
waging war to some rebels, but they don’t explain whether these rebels are
rebels against the regime only, or they are religious as well. Because at the
same time there are these ISIS rebels that kill people left right and center,
and they are religious fanatics, since they kill in the name of their God
Allah, so, they are religious people, even if they seem to us just plain
killers that should have no place in our modern society.
Anyhow, let us
go back to talk about the roles that religions play today, in these cases, we
are with pope Francis, who asks the Christian followers to pray God for the
people of Aleppo and Syria. In my views this is the best we can do and hope
that God hears our prayers and influences the right people to do something
about it.
Now let us see what else pope Francis does.
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What else can we learn from the pope.
I believe that
if we want to compare religions, we need to pay attention to what is happening
today, we should look at religious leaders, so, we can learn more about them.
Having said that, what else can we learn from pope Francis by following him, and see, what he is doing.
Saturday
December 10- 2016, pope Francis spoke to young would be priests of the future,
telling them about the problems that they can face in the future as priests,
and telling them what he aspects from them, when they are religious ministers. To
do that, pope Francis was talking about the three-fold ministry of the priest,
which are, welcoming everybody, forming good relationship with God by following
the religious rules, and they should avoid selfishness and think about
themselves too much. So, in other words, one can say that pope Francis was
warning them to be good priests.
Because, if
they do that, then, they should have a high approval rate from everybody. So, we
can say that the pope is doing well, even when some of us try to run him down
by criticizing him. Anyhow, I start to believe that this pope, who has made
changes from the previous popes, since he does not follow strictly what the
former popes did, may be the pope that this world needs today.
Now, what else
does pope Francis teaches us today? He said, as Christmas approaches, the
Nativity scenes found in churches and homes around the world bid us to make
room for Jesus both in our lives and in society. This is what pope Francis said
shortly before the lighting of the Christmas tree in St. Peter’s Square.
Here again the
pope does all those things that make life more acceptable for everybody, so, we
can conclude that this pope and Christianity work well together. Therefore,
when we look at these examples, we can say that the Roman Catholic religions
could be one of the best religions in the world. We know that it is not
perfect, because of the criticism that we get from the atheists and other
learned people. But that is another story that needs to be talked about, because today we want only to compare a few things that we have
found and written here.
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Now let us try to compare religions
In this article, we want to compare what religious functions do for us. So, let us try to compare what we have written in this article, so that we can see whether religion is good or bad for humanity.
We have talked
about pope Francis, where he has asked his followers to pray for Aleppo and Syria
and the people that are affected from this war, we believe that it is a good call
with noble intention, whether God hears our prayers and helps humanity solve
this problem is hard to say; anyhow, the
pope is showing us the way, how it should be done, when the pope does these
things, to me it means that the pope wants to end the division between
religions.
This pope
Francis is not like any other popes, but I believe that he seems to understand
a few things that most people ignore completely. Personally, I believe that he
is doing an excellent job and guiding humanity in a global and merciful way. We
need to ask ourselves, which other religious leaders pray for people that could
be their enemies, since in Syria and the Middle East religious fanatics kill
the Christians because they don’t belong to their religion.
Now let me take
another look at what we have written, we can only say that the pope has done
well, owing to the facts, that he has been merciful and followed the teaching
of our Lord Jesus Christ, just like the Roman Catholic and other Cristian
religions would.
This same thing
cannot be said about the Muslim religions, since they go around killing in the
name of their God Allah. We of the western world and religions can only ask
ourselves, what sort of God is this God that let his people kill in his name.
There must be something wrong here, because we cannot comprehend how this is
possible, but it happens anyhow.
Today we should ask ourselves this question here, while these terrible things are happening using God’s name. We need to do that because, the world populations today are moving around. So, the world will be different in a few years, this people movement has a name and it is called globalization. Now, we believe that for the world to reach consensus on globalization, it is impossible unless the world religions change, and a new religion is born from all existing religions. This could be only possible if a new religion is designed in such a way, that it can link all existing religions together, with God of the universe at its head. So, what pope Francis is doing is like he wants to bring all religions together, which can be similar to what we want to suggest in our religious theory of Reconciliation of the universe.
Now in next article, I am going out of my way, because in next article, I am going to talk about what pope Francis is doing to achieve what seems impossible to achieve today, Because Pope Francis Befriends the Muslims. Then we will go back to talk to continue what we were doing.
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May God bless
us all.
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