Looking at religions today.

WELCOME, WE BELIEVE IN GOD AND PRAY GOD, WE CAN BELIEVE AND PRAY GOD OUR OWN WAY. BUT TODAY EVERYTHING IS GOING GLOBAL, ALSO THERE ARE THINGS THAT HAPPEN THAT MAKE US WONDER WHAT TO BELIEVE. SO, WE NEED TO DESCRIBE GOD IN A MODERN WAY THAT THE ENTIRE WORLD CAN ACCEPT, MAY GOD HELP US.  

Anyhow, in this article we want to look at today religions. You see, we use religions because we have a common interest. Life feels better when people are friendly and believe in the same things, religions fulfills that role beautifully. Anyhow, in the past some religious beliefs have changed, and one day the might change again, but religions are going to survive. So, let us look at the existing religions, in this article of, Looking at religions today. 

There are several religions in the world today, some derive from the Bible, and some have other origin, they all have their own symbols and their own way. one of the main religions is the Roman Catholic religion, and it derives from the Bible. Their main church is St Peter Basilica in Rome. This is where pope Francis celebrates his mass, since it is the leading church of the Roman Catholic religion, which is the largest group of all Christian religions. We need to note that Christianity has several groups, but they are all linked, because they all believe in Jesus Christ. 

Looking at religions today

Looking at religions today  

Welcome to our article, Looking at religions today. 

Today people are less interested in religions, than they were in the past, because of what is happening. We can think of various reasons why this is happening, Perhaps the reasons why religions are not as important, it is because today people can easily see what other people believe, thanks to the internet that has put an end to separatism. Because we see that other people believe in religions and God in different ways, the faithful are not so sure anymore what to believe, for this reason they are not attached to religions as they were before.

But that is not the only reason, because there are several reasons that can affect people beliefs; therefore, we should look at what is happening in religious circles; you see, today there are many happenings reported on the news, which can make religious people upset. This would include, the Islamic terrorist that kill people in the name of their God Allah, (which sound crazy to most of us), then, the pedophilias in the roman Catholic Church, and other things, which soon or later affects the beliefs, of religious people. Now, let us view a couple of pedophilias cases that were reported in the news. We said a couple, because there are too many, if we want to report them here, so, here-under is a shortened version, of what has been reported in the news, just to see what we are talking about; here I quote:

Sex orgies, prostitution, porn: Allegations shake Catholic Church in Italy

ROME (RNS) — Lurid accusations of priests involved in sex orgies, porn videos and prostitution have emerged from several parishes in Italy recently, sending shock waves all the way to the Vatican and challenging the high standards Pope Francis demands on clergy.

In the southern city of Naples, for example, a priest was recently suspended from the parish of Santa Maria degli Angeli over claims he held gay orgies and used Internet sites to recruit potential partners whom he paid for sex.

The allegations concerning the Rev. Mario D’Orlando were brought to the attention of the diocese when an anonymous letter was sent to a Naples bishop. D’Orlando denied the charges when he was summoned by the city’s archbishop, Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, but is now facing a formal inquiry conducted by local church officials.

In the northern city of Padua, a 48-year-old priest, the Rev. Andrea Contin, is facing defrocking as well as judicial proceedings amid accusations he had up to 30 lovers, some of whom he took to a swingers’ resort in France.

Contin was removed from his parish of San Lazzaro after three women came forward with complaints against him in December. Bishop Claudio Cipolla of Padua cut short a visit to Latin America to deal with the scandal.

End of quote from news report.

We have cut this report about the Roman Catholic priests disgusting behavior short, because it would make just every religious person sick, if you read them all.

Here we can say, that the only positive thing about this mess in the Roman Catholic church, is pope Francis that wants to impose harsher rules and punishment to the failing clergy. I hope that he succeeds in fixing those problems, because people still need God and religions to guide them, so that they can live a meaningful life. Now let us talk about other religious problem, that the world is witnessing today.

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About other religions with problems. 

Now let us look at the Muslim religious problem, because they have more problems than they believe they have. Then we hope that we can suggest a way how they can fix it. 

Above, we have talked about the Roman Catholic Church having a problem with the pedophilias in priesthood. Now, let us switch religions and talk about, the Muslim religious problems. Yes, the Muslim religion have their problems, even if they deny them, one of the worst problems is the Islamic terrorists, that as we see from this side of the Western border, they are the most destructive people in living memory. Yes, they are the most destructive religious people today, because they believe in a God that wants them to kill other people. This believing in a God that wants you to kill other people is absurd, because by simple human reasoning, this God that wants you to kill other people cannot exist. The reason that this God cannot exist, it is because God has created us and every living thing, so, if God is the creator, God will not want to kill his own created life; therefore, if any spiritual entity that wants to kill people exists; then this entity cannot be God, and must not be called God. This is how I believe God needs to be, God is life and the protector of life. 

Anyhow, I believe that, these people that are going around killing other people, they are still living in the past, like a thousand years ago, or when their religion was born about 1500 years ago; they may say and even believe themselves that their religion is a peaceful loving religion, and it is not an aggressive religion, but they don’t realize that as soon as something goes wrong, they talk about, holy war, as if wars can be holy and ordained by God. There must be something wrong with this religion, or perhaps it is the people themselves that are to blame, because they are war loving people, so, they use their religion as an excuse to make wars and kill other people.

So, today they still make wars to each other easily, sometimes the western world gets involved, but this make things even worse, because then, these Islamic religious people can blame somebody else for what is happening. They never think that it is their Islamic religion that leads them to be the way they are, they are war loving people. It has got to be so, because when their prophet Muhammad started to preach the Koran, they were fighting each other with endless wars, these wars were extremely violent, in those times people had to win the war or better die. 

So, their prophet Muhammad, had to preach how to keep his people together and how to fight and win the wars. And this he did with great success.

So, the nature of the Koran, has got to have this war like machine mentality written within it, which even today we can easily see, when the Islamic people talk about JIHAD and kill in the name of Allah their God.

This is how we the people of the Western world, see this Islamic religion, we see these religious people that do not want to change their ways at all, when everybody else is changing, because they want to adapt to the present times. But the Muslims don’t want to change, they want to live in the past, using past religious values, which at the time when they were made, needed to be that way to survive. 

Some people say that they would like to compare, Our Lord Jesus Christ to the prophet Muhammad, but to us Christians this sounds even absurd, how can a prophet that guides people to fight and win wars, to be compared to our Lord Jesus Christ that talks only forgiveness.

So, there cannot be any comparison at all.

I can say a lot of other things here, but I am not going to, because I would like my readers to meditate about what has been said, which is the differences between Our Lord Jesus Christ and the prophet Muhammad. Since I am a Christian I would choose our Lord Jesus Christ. 

Anyhow, I believe that in the future Jesus Christ will become even more important, since He is the link that links us to God spiritual force. 

May God bless us all. 

See you soon in our article, Easter religious state of affairs. 

To see more click on this link,   Looking at religions today. 

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Religions and religious leaders.

WELCOME, WE BELIEVE IN GOD AND PRAY GOD, WE CAN BELIEVE AND PRAY GOD OUR OWN WAY. BUT TODAY EVERYTHING IS GOING GLOBAL, ALSO THERE ARE THINGS THAT HAPPEN THAT MAKE US WONDER WHAT TO BELIEVE. SO, WE NEED TO DESCRIBE GOD IN A WAY THAT THE ENTIRE WORLD CAN ACCEPT, MAY GOD HELP US. 

Anyhow, in this article we want to talk about religions, and religious leaders. You see, we use religions because we have a common interest. Life feels better when people are friendly and believe in the same things, religions fulfills that role beautifully. Anyhow, in the past some religious beliefs have changed, and one day the might change again, but religions are going to survive. So, let us talk about religions and religious leaders, in this article of, Religions and religious leaders. 

Today religions have different problems that they had in the past, and their leaders need to fix them. So, Pope Francis head of the Roman Catholic church and archbishop of Rome, needs to fix those problems soon. We hope that Pope Francis is the right person to do it, since it is a complex problem, that the previous Popes have avoided to fix. 

This is St. Peter basilica in Rome, here is where Pope Francis serves as the archbishop of Rome, what he has inherited here is a church with many problems. These problems were the reasons why the former Pope retired early. Anyhow, we pray God and believe and hope that God will help him solve the problems that he has inherited. 

Religions and religious leaders

Welcome to our article, Religions and religious leaders. 

Dear readers, we believe that religions have been invented by man, because we need to believe in God and the spiritual things that go with it. So, religions have been invented, because we want to know where we come from, the reasons we are here, and for that reason we would like to have a supreme spiritual being to look after us and guide us, we feel better that way. The second need is that man needs some rules to follow. You see, life is easier if you have rules to follow. This is why mankind has made religions and their rules, which were written per the needs of the times when they were written.  

Anyhow, today human needs are different, so, I have written this religious theory, where there is a unique super God-life-force that can connect all religions together, hoping that the public would accept this religious theory, and then, use it as the new religious way that the world needs, because it can connect all religions together under the same God. To explain this religion, I have also written a new prayer, that while we are praying explains the changes, so, I am going to write my prayer hereunder.

Prayer:

My lord God, I pray you with all my heart, my soul and my mind, hoping that in your mercy you would forgive me all my life sins, and that you would make me spiritually clean of any impurities that would affect my soul. Father guard and protect me from all dangers and the spiritual force of evil, and let me be a very wise man, so that I can write those religious writings in such a way, that they can connect all existing religions together to God spiritual life force, in the hope that all existing religions can become a single religion, that the world can use for the future benefit of mankind. Father hear my prayer, amen.   

Anyhow, I have written my theory and my prayer, and now I am going to write more religious articles, until I find a way how to convince the people, perhaps by writing a compact religious theory that the public can accept, so, I will write about anything that connect with religion.  

Anyhow, recently I have made this observation, for the first time in my life, I have seen the Roman Catholic Pope being treated disrespectful like a politician. Some people stick a photo of the pope on the walls in Rome telling the strange things that are happening in the catholic church. This is never happened before, because this attacks the pope and the pope policies, you see, if anything was advertised from the church before, it was about forthcoming religious events, so, even religions these days are not as they used to be, I wonder how everything will turn up one day.

Now what they are saying is not clear, so, I need to consider it before I can write it down, but I believe that it has something to do with the pedophilias that the pope condemns, somehow these sinners want to be covered up and protected from the church, but this pope wants to expose and condemn those responsible, so, he is not going to help them and cover everything up as it was done in the past. Anyhow, this is one of the religious issues of today, but there is more about the world religions and how their leaders behave these days.

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People and religions today. 

Now, those people that observe everything closely, it is obvious to them that people want to be led from their religious leaders in the right direction, because it is the fundamental reason why religions exist, as we know religions exist because we need to believe in God, and led in the right direction from religious leaders. But there are times that this does not happen. In fact, the contrary happens, which throws people off the religions they are believing in.

So, there are a people today that are agnostic, some of them are becoming atheists, because of the many negative things that happen in religious orders. Starting with today paedophilia in the Roman Catholic church, which is disgusting, since their clergy preaches purity and take a vow for celibacy, so, they can serve their religious order all their lives, and they want to be seen more as spiritual being, than human beings of flesh and blood with their human desires. Then during their lives their body needs becomes too strong to control, so, they start practicing paedophilia to satisfy them, which is a lot worse than having normal sex, because this does not involve minors.    

We should admit that religions have misled people in the past, they are continuing to mislead people even today, most times they don’t even know what they are doing, since they may believe that they are doing the right things when they are not, because what they are doing can hurt some people feelings. They should try hard not to hurt anyone. So, it would be advisable that religions follow their normal neutral routine, it is safer for them.

During this time of the year there is not so much to do in the churches, since the most important feast of Christmas is past, after that there is epiphany, followed by the feast of Saint Antony patron of the animals, and then there is Ash Wednesday, after that there is Lent, here again church activities increase, and they will take us through to Palm Sunday and then Easter. So, Cristian religions have still a few things to do during this time, and their followers are happy to follow. Provided they are kept as simple as they are, because when they go too far, they make mistakes, as we are going to describe here-under.      

The most obvious mistakes of religions. 

This is one of my personal views, about the mistakes that religions have made in the past and mistakes that they are still making today. We can say that, the greatest mistake of the Roman Catholic religion has been the inquisition, because it was so horrible, as they would burn people alive, just because religious leaders found these people guilty of not believing in the same way as they did. Those religious leaders that were leading the inquisition were so wrong in their judgment, because they believed that they did a great service to the churches and religions, when they were in fact making the greatest mistake of their lives, if there is a Hell in the other world, they should rot and burn in Hell forever, just the same way that they have burned those people alive.

Anyhow they burned people alive, to satisfy their beliefs that were about this God that in the end may not even exist. Yes, you heard it right, God might not exist at all. And a God that wants some of his believer, to burn alive other people in his name, can never exist. Because, if there is a God, God must be life and has created life, then this God is bound from his own nature to protect all living people, because they are part of himself and his children. I hope you see what I mean.

Now, the inquisition is one of the mistakes that religions have made in the past. Now, let us try to see what mistakes they are making today. It is obvious that the Roman Catholic church has the problem of paedophilia, so, changes need to be made to minimize them, perhaps by letting the priest get married, or something similar. It looks like that pope Francis is letting the clergy know that he is not going to put up with it, so, they better behave. I don’t know exactly what pope Francis can do, but at least he is letting them know that they are doing the wrong things.

Above we have talked about the Roman Catholic church, which is part of Christianity and derives from the Bible, there are other religions that derive directly from the Bible and they may have similar religious problems, which may need to be adjusted, and there is also the Muslim religion that indirectly derives from the Bible, since in the Koran Allah their God speaks and says, I am the same God of the Israelite that helped them cross the Red Sea and many other things like that. So, Allah and Yahweh are the same God under different names, even if the Muslims behave as if Allah is only their God.

What I am going to write next is a short comparison of these existing religions, but at the same time it can clash with the religious beliefs of the Muslims. It is going to clash because, I cannot see how they believe that they can go around killing people in the name of God and they believe that their God Allah will recompense them. For me, my common sense says that it is more likely that they will be punished, in the same way that they inflict pains to the people they kill. It is only fair to believe that they will be punished. Because if Allah is a just God, then, that is what his own nature will lead him to do.

You see, we can only believe that God is right and just, so, if God doesn’t apply his mercy, he must apply justice, which most likely is like the saying, an eye for an eye, or a punishment of equal value.

I hope I have explained myself. See you next time in our article, Looking at religions today. 

To see more click on this link, Religions and religious leaders. 

May God bless us all.

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Christian religions and life.

WELCOME, WE BELIEVE IN GOD AND PRAY GOD, WE CAN BELIEVE AND PRAY GOD OUR OWN WAY. BUT TODAY EVERYTHING IS GOING GLOBAL, ALSO THERE ARE THINGS THAT HAPPEN THAT MAKE US WONDER WHAT TO BELIEVE. SO, WE NEED TO DESCRIBE GOD IN A WAY THAT THE ENTIRE WORLD CAN ACCEPT, MAY GOD HELP US. 

Anyhow, in this article we want to talk about religions, and how we use religions. You see, we use religions because we have a common interest. Life feels better when people are friendly and believe in the same things, religions fulfills that role beautifully. Anyhow, in the past some religious beliefs have changed, and one day the might change again, but religions are going to survive, because we need to believe in a God and religions, as we are saying in this article, Christian religions and life.   

As you can see from this photo of religious logos, there are several religions in the world, anyhow, today we are going to talk about Christian religions and our spiritual beliefs. 

  

Welcome to our article, Christian religions and life. 

We believe that religions are for our spiritual needs, and religions are necessary, since they teach us a way of life that helps people live in a friendlier way. We may not agree with some religion, and what some religions teach their believers, because they are far away from our religious beliefs. But you see, most religions have been made up for getting a group of people together under the same religious rules.

Anyhow, today we are writing about our Christian religion and how it helps us in our life. So, let us talk what happens after Christmas in our religion, since our last article we wrote about Christmas and how people use these religious feasts. This year we want to write about religious events, and then try to see how they fit with our religious theory that we have written.

Anyhow, in our last article we have talked about the coming Christmas of 2016, and the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ. Christmas time happens once a year at the end of the year, and after that people start thinking about the new year. So, with the coming year everything starts again, so, let us look at what happens in the religious world, and how the church explains the progress of this newborn baby Jesus Christ, because in the Christian religions everything evolves around baby Jesus Christ.    

Today what we are telling you, has been told thousands of times and it will continue to be told for a long time to come. Because beliefs and religions must keep these beliefs going, so, the old same story is being told again, because we need to tell the future people about these happenings. We can say that this is the way that humanity passes this information from generation to generation.

Anyhow, we have decided to follow some of the church liturgy during the year, to see what happens during the year in churches and commend on it. We want to follow what pope Francis says, since he is a different pope, I feel that he can change a few things during his reign as pope. You see, he even believes about evolution, which is something that believer would not admit. At the same time, we will have our chance to discuss what he has said and talk about why he is taking that stand. So, let us start with epiphany, since epiphany is what the churches celebrate after Christmas.

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Christmas and epiphany. 

All Christian religions, after celebrating the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ at Christmas, they start a new liturgical year, with the three wise men reaching Jesus birth place. 

But, the feast of epiphany in Italy for the children is different. You see there was this old lady that brought presents to us children, she was like today Santa Claus, but with a difference, she was an old lady a bit like a witch riding a broom, who brought presents to us kids, she would give good kids good presents, but would give naughty kids ashes and coals, picked up from the chimney where we had hung one of our socks to receive her presents, anyhow I got some good presents, but sometimes got some ashes and coals too, this is how we kids saw epiphany then, but there is also the church version of this feast, so let us talk about it.

In Christianity, the feast of epiphany can be different between different Christian churches, but let us talk about the Roman Catholic church. The religious feast of epiphany in the Roman Catholic church it is about the three wise men reaching their destination to visit baby Jesus. At the service, the priest will tell you that these three wise men (or kings) have come from faraway lands, guided from this bright star that now has stopped above the humble place where baby Jesus is laying in a manger. A lot of local people have come to visit baby Jesus, because of this bright star staying above this place and other signs. Anyhow, the three wise men are there because they knew that baby Jesus is an important person, they have read the scriptures of the old prophets, so, they have followed this star that guided them. Knowing that this newborn is important they have brought presents fit for a king: their names are; Gasper, Balthasar, and Melchior; their presents are, gold, frankincense and myrrh, so, they were fit for a king. And thus, from this poor and humble beginning, now baby Jesus has become important.

It is said that the three Magi on the way to find baby Jesus had gone to ask King Herod for directions; they asked where is the child that has been born king of the Jews? He did not know himself, but he called the chief priest and the scriber of the people to find out, so, they said that the Messiah was to be born, in Bethlehem of Judea. King Herod was interested to know more about this newborn baby, so, he asked the magi to let him know on their way back. But the magi became suspicious and left using another way to avoid King Herod.

Anyhow this is what you will hear preached, if you go to the epiphany church service. So, I think that I have said enough about epiphany. The only thing that I am adding here is that while the magi became suspicious and left for a different way without going back to Herod. Also St. Joseph had a dream and became suspicious of King Herod, so, soon after that they left to go back to Egypt.   

 

Religious happenings today.

These religious things that we have written above, have happened in the old times, today we think that nothing important is happening right now, because there are not any spiritual signs that we can follow. But I believe that religions and religious beliefs are still playing their part, even when everything seems the same old thing. But then if we look at the following issues, they are not the same.

So, let us follow pope Francis and anything that seems out of the ordinary. I believe that pope Francis today is changing a few things that in the past were not possible to change, he is basing and using religion more in a humanitarian way than a strict religious way. So, he even lets in churches people of different religions, he wants to save lives and hardship to anybody, just about every day at the angelus, when he appears at the window above St Peter Square, he talks about the refugees especially the children that reach Italy by themselves, he is very helpful towards them, he takes risks with all these new comer refugees, even if some of them are dangerous, he does not see this danger, he trusts in God and our Lord Jesus Christ, and hopes for the best outcome.  

We said at the beginning of this article, that religions are a way of life that helps people of religious groups to live in a friendlier way, forming a religious group of people is okay, but just because it is a group it divides itself from other religious groups. But pope Francis does not want to see that, he looks at everybody as an individual and a child of God, so, he believes that everybody for him is equal in his eyes and the eyes of God and treats them equally. What is going to change from his actions we don’t know yet, because they can affect religion in the future. I suppose that we should wait and see what is going to happen.

We would like to know what the aim of his changes could be. So, this question arises. Are his aims only to save lives, and be human towards anyone that comes close to him? Or is he aiming at something more important? Does he really know what he is doing, or he trusts in his faith and God blindly, hoping that everything will turn out okay?

Perhaps one day we will know the answer to these questions. I believe that this pope wishes that there was only one religion. Anyhow, I believe that we have said enough in this article for the time being. So, see you next time, with our article, Religions and religious leaders. 

To see more click on this link, Christian religions and life. 

May God bless us all.        

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Christmas is coming soon.

WELCOME, WE BELIEVE IN GOD AND PRAY GOD, WE CAN BELIEVE AND PRAY GOD OUR OWN WAY. BUT TODAY EVERYTHING IS GOING GLOBAL, ALSO THERE ARE THINGS THAT HAPPEN THAT MAKE US WONDER WHAT TO BELIEVE. SO, WE NEED TO DESCRIBE GOD IN A WAY THAT THE ENTIRE WORLD CAN ACCEPT, MAY GOD HELP US. 

Anyhow, in this article we want to talk about Christmas, at the same time we want to say that people use religions to have a common interest. Life feels better when people are friendly and believe in the same things, religions fulfills that role beautifully. As we all know, in the past some religious beliefs have changed, and one day the might change again, but religions are going to survive, because we need to believe in a God and religions.  

This photo shows an imaginary religious nativity scene, with Mary Joseph and other saints attending baby Jesus, there are also some angels above to show the importance of this religious event. Well this is how we have been told this event happened when Jesus was born.   

Welcome to our article,  Christmas is coming soon. 

Dear readers, in this article we are talking about Christmas, since it is that time of the year when Christmas is celebrated. We want to do this, because we would like to discuss how these Christmas celebrations affects people mostly in a positive way. You see, most people like Christmas and enjoy it, of course it is the children that like Christmas most; because we the people have invented this character of an old man called Father Christmas that gives presents to the children, so, the children are waiting eagerly for father Christmas every year to see what he brings them.

Anyhow, the festivities of Christmas have two sides one is the religious side and the other is the mundane side. We know for a fact that the children love Christmas, because they receive presents; the shop keepers like Christmas, because they can make money selling toys and other thing that we need for Christmas, and most of us grown-up like Christmas as well, because we get together and enjoy good food with our families and friends. So, the invention of this Christmas event, seems to be a good thing for humanity that use Christmas, as an excuse to enjoy themselves.

So, let us see briefly what we do at Christmas. Some of us call this the silly season, because we go shopping spending money on gifts, which may not be necessary to the person that receives them. We do this in shops that sound inviting by playing Christmas carols and telling us happy things. When we turn on the TV, they tell us when the Christmas carols will be broadcast, it is a very joyous time of the year.

Having said that now let us talk about the spiritual and religious side of Christmas, since for Christianity these Christmas celebrations are important; as you know, Christian religious worshippers celebrate the birth of our lord Jesus Christ, and therefore the birth of the Christian religions, since Jesus Christ is the spiritual founder of Christianity, even though this religion was not purposely started from Jesus Christ, it became a religion later.

Anyhow, as we have said, this feast has two sides, the religious side and the mundane side, all this seem to work well for everybody, and therefore, there is no harm done, and that is just great, even though some people have some reservation, like the real reason, why we celebrate Christmas the 25 of December, when very likely Jesus was not born the 25 of December. So, we wonder how Christmas came about to be the way that we celebrate Christmas now. We are sure that Christmas has got to be more than the birth of our lord Jesus Christ, because not only it is a religious happening, it has also these other traditions of presents and the Christmas tree, so, it has got to be more than one event put together. Therefore, let us try to imagine how the present Christmas has come about, including other events that may have influenced to form Christmas as we know it today, so, let us talk about the possible origins of Christmas.

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The origin of Christmas. 

There are reasons to believe that the origin of Christmas is an old pagan festival, which people used to celebrate lavishly for a few days of the year, I believe that it was an event that marked something important to them, one of which could be the rebirth of the sun. As we know today in the northern hemisphere the shortest day of the year is the 21 of December; so, it stands to reasons that soon after that our ancestors would celebrate this event, either to influence the sun god to come back, or the rebirth of a new year as the sun would slowly come back to shine for them for another year. You see, there are a lot of signs in old monuments telling us that a long time ago people thought that the sun was a god, and they worshiped the sun; and even if they did not worship the sun, they followed the sun all year around, so, it is reasonable to assume that they wanted a feast to mark the return of the sun, today this feast has become Christmas.

Of course, people have all sorts of ideas, why we have Christmas the 25^th of December. Now, here I have something more recent to talk about. For instance, sometimes at my home, some Jehovah witness come to visit us, and we talk about religion, because that is what they do when they visit you. Anyhow, they are telling me that according to the Bible and their religious study, Jesus Christ was born in October and not in December, they might be right there, because I would come to the same conclusion if I base my enquiries on the Bible only. Anyhow, today it does not matter how Christmas come about, since everybody like it and has good time.

Now, let us talk about the religious Christmas and what happens in the Christian churches, since this is the issue that we want to talk about in these articles, because at the end of it, we want to compare todays’ religions and how they affect humanity. Anyhow, Christmas time is a busy time for the Catholic and other Christian churches. So, let us discuss what they do and how it affects humanity, which we believe it affects us in a positive way.

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What the Christian believers do at Christmas. 

We believe that religions play a positive part in our lives, but today, we are talking about Christianity only, since we don’t know if other religions have something like Christmas to celebrate and bring people together, and while they are doing it they can enjoy themselves as well. We guess that other religions have their own ways, how to get their believers together, because one of the most important things for religions is to bring people together, so that they form a friendship that makes them stay together; you see, staying together is what makes a religion strong.

Anyhow, the Christian religions have a few things going on at Christmas, which brings people together and makes them happy, at least this is one of the aims of the religious leaders and most times it works. Anyhow, at the Christmas service, the priests start telling the people that God has been good to us and has send us a savior, this savior is our lord Jesus Christ and we will celebrate his nativity the 25^th day of December, as Christmas. So, we should be happy just because we would be saved, but to be saved we should be good in the eyes of God, to be good in the eyes of God, we must start by respecting and following what the church leaders say, like priests and all other clergy above them, they also help us understand how all this came about.

At Christmas time, most churches have a nativity scene showing little baby Jesus in a manger and many other characters, so, people usually go to see how it has been put together. There are some people that make their own Nativity in their houses, it is a bit of competition there, even though they don’t say it. You see, when I was a teenager six decades ago, religious people were visiting the churches to see which church had done the best nativity scene.

In Australia and America, they seem to think more about Father Christmas than the religious side of Christmas, but even this is a happy event that gives joy to the people anyhow, they also use these Christmas carols to remind us that it is Christmas time, as we have said above. So, we can say Christmas is a very useful institution that humanity has come up with, and we believe that it is here to stay for a long time.

Now, let us conclude this article. Here we would like to say that Christmas is a very useful and joyous institution in the western world. So, we would like to invite the rest of the world to follow this example, where religions and living a happy life go hand in hand. Where religions have a god that is not so demanding as God Yahweh was in the Old Testaments, where God is love and not a tyrant, and God is merciful and understands humanity, like our lord Jesus Christ does. This is the reason why we celebrate Christmas.

That is all I can say. See you next time, in our article Christian religions and life. 

To see more click on this link,  Christmas is coming soon. 

May God bless us all.  

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Pope Francis Befriends Muslims.

WELCOME, WE BELIEVE IN GOD AND PRAY GOD, WE CAN BELIEVE AND PRAY GOD OUR OWN WAY. BUT TODAY EVERYTHING IS GOING GLOBAL, ALSO THERE ARE THINGS THAT HAPPEN THAT MAKE US WONDER WHAT TO BELIEVE. SO, WE NEED TO DESCRIBE GOD IN A WAY THAT THE ENTIRE WORLD CAN ACCEPT, MAY GOD HELP US. 

Anyhow, in this article we want to review our religious article, because our religious views continue to change. You see, what is happening is a process of the accumulated knowledge that takes place in our brain while we are learning more things. So, we are going to write our future religious articles according to our modified views. Anyhow, pope Francis is, moving faster then us, because see what he is doing, ne meets with other religious leaders.  

I believe that pope Francis thinks in a modern way, some of us may think that he is ahead of the present time, because he sees the need to end religious isolation, for this reason he goes out and tries to connect to other religions, by meeting with other religious leaders, we hope and pray that his move works out in a positive way. 

 Pope Francis Befriends Muslims

Welcome to our article, Pope Francis Befriends Muslims. 

In these times of unrest, Pope Francis tries to do what is best, he goes out of his way to befriend the Muslims, this pope is like Jesus he wants to persuade people through love. But will this gesture of goodwill be appreciated from the Muslims, we hope they do, but we don’t know; there are too many differences between Christianity and the Muslim religion.

Even when we believe that they believe in the same God, but this God is called with a different name: the Christians call their God “Yahweh” while the Muslims call their God “Allah”. They are talking about the same God, because in the Koran God speak and says that he is the God of Abraham, and the God that helped the Israelites cross the Red Sea. But even if these two religions believe in the same God; is this going to be enough to persuade the Muslims to merge with Christianity? Because this is what pope Francis wants to happen.

Anyhow, I am writing this article today, after I have found this other article about pope Francis on the internet. So, I am going to use part of what I have found in between my own views about what I believe could happen. I believe that pope Francis is a risk taker, because what he is trying to do is risky. Now let me quote what I have found on the Internet.

Quote 1  

Pope Francis recently signed a pact with Muslims in a possible push toward a one-world religion and declared that diversity of religions is God’s will. But wait. Doesn’t the Bible warn Christians about unifying with those who worship other gods and have contradictory beliefs? (End of quote)

Then this guy goes on telling us this;

Quote 2

God sent His Son to save sinners, but Allah had no son. Isn’t this a problem with anyone else? There are many glaring, stark contrasts between the founders of Christianity (Jesus) and Islam (Muhammad) as well as the doctrines themselves. Jesus taught love and forgiveness, and He also instructed His disciples to “pray for those who persecute you. (Matthew 5:44).” Jesus was a sinless, spiritual leader who laid down His life to save mankind, said “Father, forgive them” to those that crucified Him’ Jesus never killed anyone. (End of quote)

There is a lot more said, but I am not writing all of it;

Quote 3, The pope, and the grand imam of al-Azhar signed what was referred to as “a historic declaration of fraternity, calling for peace between nations, religions and races, in front of a global audience of religious leaders from Christianity, Islam, Judaism and other faiths.”

We know that powerful, world elites are pushing uniformity and a one world religion, but it’s still stunning to see top world leaders from Catholicism and Islam make such a dramatic display.

(End of my quotes)

Anyhow, this article goes on to say that the Roman Pope Francis and the grand imam of Egypt’s Al-Azhar, have signed a one world religion agreement titled

 “Document on Human Fraternity for World Peace and Living Together.”

Now, what I found that is missing in this article that we are talking about, is that it does not mention that that there are mainly two types of Muslims, the Sunnis and the Shias.  

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Here pope Francis is shaking hand with the grand imam of al-Azhar, perhaps they want to start a 

new way of fraternity between the religions of all nations.

My views about these religious issues.   

Now what I have written above is only a small part of what I found, so, it goes on saying that it is very unlikely that these two religions can merge, because of the great difference between the teaching of Jesus Christ and Muhammad, but nevertheless it is a beginning; this beginning is telling us that even the religious leader are becoming aware that religious changes are needed. So, it is only a matter of time before it happens.  

My views about these religious changes above, are very unlikely to happen, but changes are required, if humanity wants to use religions to guide the people, as we have done in the past. But we believe that it is more likely that people accept a new religious order, which will see the people all at the same level, guided from a Super God that sits above all existing Gods, than merging the existing religions.

What we are saying here is not new, because religions have come and gone before, so, it is only a matter of time before a new religion is formed. We have suggested in our religious articles, this God that represent all existing life on earth, including the existing spiritual life, in the spiritual dimension. I know that what we have said there is not easy to accept, because we want a God that looks after us and nobody else; but the world can be better off if we accept a God for everybody. These are my views for time being, and my views can be modified, when important religious things happen.

Anyhow, Pope Francis has signed this agreement with the Egyptian’s imam Al-Azhar, which is the leader of the largest group of Muslim, but I want to point out that the Shias Muslims, are those Muslims that seem to fight more often everywhere they go. So, I hope that this agreement helps to bring these two religions together, and in the long run, bring some peace in the world, but I have my doubts.

Anyhow, I believe that befriending the Muslims, is a good idea, if it works out the way the pope wants it to work; but if it doesn’t work at least he has tried. I believe that pope Francis wants to end religious rivalry, which is a good thing if that happens. So, now we must wait and see, if he continues to befriend other religions, and if he is successful; if the pope is successful, then a new religious system could begin.

I think I have said enough in this article, so, see you in our next article, where we will go back to talk about the present religious system, and what we do at Christmas. 

To see more click on this link,  Pope Francis Befriends Muslims. 

May God bless us all.  

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Religious function today.

WELCOME, WE BELIEVE IN GOD AND PRAY GOD, WE CAN BELIEVE AND PRAY GOD OUR OWN WAY. BUT TODAY EVERYTHING IS GOING GLOBAL, ALSO THERE ARE THINGS THAT HAPPEN THAT MAKE US WONDER WHAT TO BELIEVE. SO, WE NEED TO DESCRIBE GOD IN A WAY THAT THE ENTIRE WORLD CAN ACCEPT, MAY GOD HELP US. 

Anyhow, in this article we want to review our religious article, because our religious views continue to change. You see, what is happening is a process of the accumulated knowledge that takes place in our brain while we are learning more things. So, we are going to write our future religious articles according to our modified views. 

Today even religious things are changing, here above Pope Francis mixes with the crowds and he like to tell them what to do, he is a modern pope, he is not like the popes of fifty years ago, when Christians were forbidden even to talk to other religious people, because pope Francis tells you to pray for them. 

Now, this photo here is interesting, because it shows us what pope Francis can see, when he addresses the crowd at the angelus. Most times we only see the pope far away at the window talking to the crowd.  
 

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 11^th 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.  

To see more klick on this link, Religious function today. 

May God bless us all.  

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We are reviewing our religious writings.

WELCOME, WE BELIEVE IN GOD AND PRAY GOD, WE CAN BELIEVE AND PRAY GOD OUR OWN WAY. BUT TODAY EVERYTHING IS GOING GLOBAL, ALSO THERE ARE THINGS THAT HAPPEN THAT MAKE US WONDER WHAT TO BELIEVE. SO, WE NEED TO DESCRIBE GOD IN A WAY THAT THE ENTIRE WORLD CAN ACCEPT, MAY GOD HELP US. 

Anyhow, in this article we want to review our religious article. We want to do that because as we continue to write our religious discussions, our religious views continue to change slowly. You see, what is happening is a process of the accumulated knowledge that takes place in our brain while we are learning more things. So, we are going to write our future religious articles according to our modified views. 

This chart above, shows us many religious symbols that religions use to distinguish themselves from other religions. So, there are many religions in the world, therefore, it is hard to know which religion is the right one to follow, so, we are trying to understand the reasons why, and then what can be done. 

  

Our religious writing review

Welcome to our article, Our religious writing review. 

With this religious review, we want to add things to our existing religious articles, so, they could be viewed at a different angle. We need to talk about today existing religions and how they help humanity; but at the same time, we should ask ourselves whether what they are doing is good enough, and then, if what religions are doing can be improved, by using our religious theory that we have written. 

We can say that there are religions that guide humanity to live their lives well, so, they are worth practicing, but not all religions can claim to be good enough for all humanity to practice. Anyhow, today there are many religions in the world, because of these different religions, most people believe different things and sometimes it may even become personal, and this is what we want to talk about.

Most of us have our own feelings and our own religious beliefs, which will drive us to do things according to the degree that we believe in. Therefore, our own religious beliefs, can drive us to do things that other people would not do, because they think it is useless to do that. When we do these religious things outside the normal way of life, then people can even think that we could be crazy. 

So, let me try to explain, you see, after writing many articles about our personal religious beliefs, which in a nutshell, they are saying that we see this need that today religions should be modified, because religions do not work as well as they did in the past, at least this is what we believe. We have based our beliefs on what is happening in the world, which are about the atheists and the terrorist activities that are happening today. Anyhow, here we can say that we have written several articles, where we have discussed our religious views. 

Here I have to admit that I am not a real writer, because I have not been trained to be one, so, those religious articles that I have written, could have been written better, if a real writer had written them using my religious beliefs. But I am not basing their worth about the way that they have been written, I am basing their worth about the way we suggest to the world that religions can be modified, by using a new theory and the view of how a universal God could exist within the universe, that is capable to guide the entire universe. If the entire world can accept that there is only on God in the entire universe, by using a new theory that explains how this God exists and how all the spiritual entities work together, then it is possible that this religious problem can be solved.

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The Roman Catholic religion is the largest group of the Cristian religions. Today the head of the catholic church resides in St Peter Basilica in Rome, this is where the Pope celebrate religious services, and from here guides the rest of the catholic churches. But this is only a portion of the entire world population, the rest have their own religions. 

Talking about religions. 

Anyhow, since we must talk about religions, let us start with a photo of St. Peter Basilica above and its religious rules, which come from this Christian religious order. This religion is good enough for us Christians, but what’s about the rest of the world that follows other religions, can the rest of the world population one day become Christians? Perhaps this is wishful thinking of the Christian people, and it can never happen. So, we need to look at other possibilities. 

In our articles, we have talked about the religious beliefs that we are practicing today. But let us start from a different angle, let us have another look at what we have today, in the figure of our Lord Jesus Christ, who is believed to be the link between the spiritual forces of heaven and earth, and in our view, can help humanity. Because the teaching of our lord Jesus Christ is what the world needs now; we need to practice forgiveness and love everybody around us. We also need a new religious set up to achieve that; perhaps Our Lord Jesus Christ is just what we need, perhaps not portrayed the way we see him on the cross, but like the photos of the Sacred Heart and the loving way he taught us.   

We believe that there is a way to modify religions in the future, by using what we know today, it will all depend from the way we want to view what is already believed. See below what Jesus Christ has promised, by giving us a way to save ourselves. 

These are the Christian beliefs of Our Lord Jesus Christ, even though this photo does not mention Jesus name, every Christian knows that this is what Jesus Christ promised us. He promised us that through him we can be saved. 

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In this article, we have talked about the catholic religion and Our Lord Jesus Christ, which in our beliefs, they come close to what the world needs, but even so, we believe that religions need to be modified. Therefore, today we are concerned about our religious writings that promote this change, because the people that read our articles are losing interest, so, our articles viewing are slowly going down. Perhaps it is because we are not writing new articles, since we don’t have anything new to add, since we have written our discussions and our religious theory of how God of the universe can exist. Of course, we are editing our hubs in the hope that we can make them better. 

We are also writing new articles, where we are still talking about religions, even if these new articles are not a continuation of our religious theory that we have written. We also intend to write these new articles in a way that they can connect to our theory of reconciliation of the universe, but we are going to write them, in a way that is more friendly to the existing religions as they are practiced today. 

Now that we have said what we are going to do, let us try to set up how we are going to do that, we know that we don’t want to write many articles, just for the sake of writing another article, but then again we need to write articles, say one article each month, depending on what is happening in the religious world, and also if what we are writing is compatible with our religious writing that we have already written.  

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Let us review our beliefs

Above we have seen that there are many religions in the world, the reason for being so, it is that every civilization has had their own religion and written about their own Gods, they have written their religious set of rules, which were set per what was needed at that time. Now, if religions are being written for the need of the people, then, it is obvious that religions are man-made. Therefore, we have reasons to believe that religious beliefs can become modified with time, so that they would serve better the need of the people. Now, we need to review our religious beliefs many times during our lives, for this reason that we have explained above, we need also to review our articles, so that they may reflect what we are still believing and what has changed, this is what we are going to do, when we write these articles. At this present time our beliefs are that, we would like to see a new idealistic God of the universe that is benevolent and can link with all religions on earth, so that all religions can coexist together under a Super-God.  

That is all for this article, see you next time with, Religious function today. 

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May God bless us all.    

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