There has been a big attention in media the last couple of days over a nut wing pastor in a small church in Florida wanting to burn Korans on 9/11. I'm not going to get in to what I think about that gentleman but more what people read in to their faith.
Faith, even if it's in the same God, the same holy book and the same Jesus, takes such different paths, depending on what you focus on
For example, Growing up, almost all of my friends that were Christians choose not to to their military service (all male Swedes had to do military service at the age of 18), but instead picking civil service claiming their faith prohibiting them from bearing arms.
Here it's the opposite, there are few more gun loving, war supporting people than the Christians.
I've read both the Swedish bible and the NKJ (New King James), and I think it's about the same. The same stories in the old testament, the same virgin born Christ, the same miracles, the same death on the cross and the same resurrection, but yet so different .
Well, you don't really have to compare between two different continents. Let's stay here in the US.
Some think it's a bad thing to dance and sing contemporary Christian music while others live out their faith by singing and dancing. Same bible, different interpretation.
I guess it really doesn't matter if your view of the scripture directs you how you're going to prepare your steak the right way or if you have problems knitting on a Saturday.
Where I do think it is important to back off and take a deep breath is when people in their interpretations try to set standards for people in their surroundings and communities.
Just because something seems right for you doesn't automatically make it right for others. All the "value" voters out there, that think their way of reading the bible is the only way of reading it is making people with other "values" uncomfortable.
People who know me know how much problems I have with good old apostle Paul. Maybe it's because he's the one who brings back all these stupid laws again just a few years after Jesus swept the table clean of laws and gave just two great, but hard ones to live by; Love God with all your heart and love your neighbor as yourself.
I wish all the people wanting everybody to live as their faith directs them, would pick those two wonderful guidelines to fight for and leave everything else to the lawmakers.
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The pastor of the Florida church must have read my blog :)
He just said on the Today show that this Koran burning thing have been cancelled, indefinetly. And that all fractions of both Christianity and Islam have radical elements that we now have to concentrate on. Radical teachings that are carried on throughout the entire religion (Islam), as there are denominations in Christinaity that push one element more than others.
The ass.pastor of the Florida church said quote" One thing that I hope that this will create is that there are strong passions in religion, and people really need to get back to the text of the Bible and the text of the Koran, what do they actually belive, what is in there, or are they following an element that probably really God didn't want us to follow"
AMEN, let's hope all radical fractions of both Islam and Christianity listen and act on that!!!
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