"I always say that every person on this earth has the freedom to practice or not practice religion. It is all right to do either. But once you accept religion, it is extremely important to be able to focus your mind on it and sincerely practice the teachings in your daily life. All of us can see that we tend to indulge in religious favouritism by saying, "I belong to this or that religion", rather than making effort to control our agitated minds. This misuse of religion, due to our disturbed minds, also sometimes creates problems."
I don't understand how people can be so set in their own religious beliefs that they proclaim that all other religions are wrong and that their's is the only "correct" one. At the same time, someone else who follows this "wrong" religion is claiming that their particular religion is the only right one. Here is my current thoughts in regards to religion: Religions are a belief system. Therefore, you can't judge if one religion is right and one is wrong.
This leads me to another right vs. wrong debate that has been very prominent lately, gay marriage. Gay marriage is only legal in 11 out of the 50 U.S. states. How ridiculous is that?! Why in the world should two people who are in love not be allowed to marry. Here's the problem, people are weird. If there were no restrictions on marriage what so ever, the next thing you know you have someone marrying their cat and someone else marrying their lawn furniture There are so many weird religious practices. Just google search it and you'll see what I'm talking about. Here is an excellent example:
Kaparot is a traditional Jewish religious ritual that takes place around the time of the High Holidays. Classically, it is performed by grasping a live chicken by the shoulder blades and moving around one’s head three times, symbolically transferring one’s sins to the chicken. The chicken is then slaughtered and donated to the poor, preferably eaten at the pre-Yom Kippur feast. In modern times, Kapparos is performed in the traditional form mostly in Haredi communities. The ritual is preceded by the reading of Psalms 107:17-20 and Job 33:23-24.
It's hard for me not to say that this is wrong, but I don't believe that I am in any position to judge this. I know that my views on these right vs. wrong debates are also connected to my personality too though. I am an extremely passive person. I am not one to form an extremely strong opinion about a particular matter and fight for it with all my might. My theory is that it's great to have your own standpoint, but you should ALWAYS listen to and take into consideration all of the other's that are out there too.
Completely irrelevant to this topic, I randomly decided to buy a Beta fish today. He is red. I am going to name him Peli which is short for Pelirrojo which is redhead en espanol.
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