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Theology the science of religion History Buddy.

Religiously seeking the meaning of life.

Hello Buddy... since man first walked the earth he (and she) has continually searched for the elusive questions. Why are we here?'... There must be more, something greater in control over creation"... And so, over Time, thus seeded the human races desire for collective beliefs in greater powers at work. Consequently reaching the Great diversity of religions and beliefs you humans hold today and all these springing from the basis that the creative power is one of Peace, Light and Good Faith.

One god (monotheism), many gods (polytheism), no god (atheism). Whatever you may personally believe (and that is up to each individual to make up their own mind, freely with the power of their own inner faith) the fact is, that if just a massive, coincidental series of separate events have been the Key to existence of everything, then it must itself have a god like quality, as for the whole shebang of creation is a little too complex than warrants a belief only in the microscope of science and faith in only what you can actually see and physically examine.

My history notes

First steps to the spirit of peace and light (Faith)

General Human Religion / Gods Name / Belief

Buddhism

Siddhartha Gautama (Buddha awakened/enlightened one) Born Northern India 6th Century BC son of a nobleman.

One God

To follow the path of right:1:Views 2:Thoughts 3:Speech 4:Action 5:Livelihood 6:Effort 7:Mindfulness 8:Concentration

Recognised living leader... Dalai Lama

Christianity

Jehovah : Jesus (Christ:anointed one) Born year zero to modern calendar.

Son of a carpenter

One God

To follow the path of Bible 1:To have no other Gods besides Jehova 2:To make no idols 3:Not to misuse the name of God 4:To keep the Sabbath Holy 5:To honour ones parents 6:Not to commit murder 7:Not to commit adultery 8:Not to commit theft 9:Not to give false evidence 10:Not to be covetous

Recognised living leader... Pope

Hinduism

Vishnu (Preserver/male)... Lakshmi (Preserver/female) Brahma (Creator/male)... Saravati (Creator/female) Shiva (Destroyer/male)... Parvati (Destroyer/male) Krishna+Rama (INCARNATIONS OF VISHNU)

Many Forms, but one God

To follow the path of thought Rebirth of man and creatures with the Atman (Spirit of God) Everything that exists is a part of God. Every action Good or Bad has an effect (Karma) on this and lives of the future. Positive action can achieve union with God.

Recognised living leader... None

Islam

God (Allah in Arabic):- and Muhammad is the prophet of God (Islam means Peace) Muslim is one who submits to the will of God

One God

To follow the path of Koran 1:Repeating the creed 2:Daily prayer 3:Giving alms 4:Fasting (month of Ramadan 5:Pilgrimage to Mecca (Birth place of Muhammad) at least once in a lifetime.

Recognised living leader... None

Judaism

God Jehovah:- covenant with Abraham (Father of the Jews)

One God

To follow the path of The Torah (Five books of Moses) Read in Hebrew. Various daily laws of living including eating of permitted foodstuffs (Kosher) and Terefah (forbidden food)

Recognised living leader... None

Sikhism

(Guru Nanak founder of new religion)

One God

To follow the path of Guru Granth Sahib Scriptures, hymns, poems. Service to others, protect weak against any injustice.Must wear five marks of faith... 1:Uncut hair/Kesh 2:A comb/Kanga 3:Bangle made of steel/Kara (Circle represents one God+Truth) 4:Dagger-Sword? Kirpan (Reminder of fight against injustice) 5:Breeches or short trouseres? Kacchera (To be ready to ride into battle)

Recognised living leader... None

The Human: World Wrestling Faith

Welcome to the Quite Wacky, World Wrestling Faith Federation. Wrestling each other.In the Global ring we have six major religions who each believe in the God Of Peace and Light and his teachings of tolerance, love and peace. But who even today, wish to wrestle over his actual name and the physical way in which the Spirit should be worshiped. (There are of course many more but that is all that will fit on the page).

We join the show in the new Millennium but it has had an eternal time-frame and the bitter contest continues.

Each say. Our love is better than yours, we pray for peace harder than you, our name for God is better, we have the bigger army and can hit you harder, we are the oppressed and shall overcome etc. Here is the Commentary live from the ridiculous Global Theatre.

Commentator 1:(Dave retch).

"Thanks for joining us at the World Wrestling Faiths showdown. The main contenders are still battling it out In the ring and have seen this round out for the past millennium. The carnage I have to say has been pretty awful in there!.. Over to you Dan!"

Commentator 2:(Dan, damned)

"Yes no-one has the will and moved to work out any new major moves toward the Peace corner. Its all still deadlocked here and it seems there is no will to win the Peace and Harmony prize all their respective religions are preaching!.. Lets have a word to see how the audience feels!.. Over to you Dave!"

Commentator 1:(Dave retch)

"Thanks Dan!.. In the celestial audience for Eternity we have the spirit of truth and light himself!.. God. How do you feel about this contest?.. Do you think there will be a clear winner?. Or do you feel that there will be no single victor to this bloody contest?"

God.

"Well Dave, I have witnessed this performance since the dawn of mans intelligence and I must say that it really does not please me at all".

Commentator 1:(Dave retch)..

"And why do you feel that God?"

God.

"Well Dave, I gave man intelligence to worship me in peace and love and to hold faith in me without absolute proof of my existence (otherwise I would have created robots not free thinkers). That is all I required of man, not this display of self interest, about who has the best name, or praying technique!. This contest has been a load of absolute nonsense and just a letting for some peoples hate to run riot. I am not impressed!"

Commentator 1:(Dave retch)

"So what do you think should end the show?.. A draw.. Or may-be, someone to win outright?"

God.

"Well Dave, I already know the outcome due to my position, you understand. But I really do not wish to divulge that particular information yet, I will reveal that only on Judgement day!. However, if creation displeases me and I decide to rip it up and start again. Perhaps, next time, things will turn out better without man in General as the dominant species".

Commentator 1:(Dave retch)

"Thanks for your views God.. By the way, out of interest, what do you think of Atheists, who are not in the competition?"

God.

"Well Dave, no hopers. I have no faith in those, that will have none in me. But, be assured, they too will be re-born!"

Commentator 1:(Dave retch)

"Yes!. Really!"

God.

"Yes, really. As a dog turd!"

The Human World today.

A penguin persons perspective. 11-09-01

No matter what God, religion or faith you may wish to believe in. Or in which God, faith or religion, you may store your ultimate ideals, no peaceful religion (as all are) or teachings, condone the murder of the innocent, or of children. Those that wish to and indeed do, indulge in the obscene, follow the Dark Side and Path hidden by another’s name, power and influence and may be ultimately condemned by the God and religion that they purport or believe to have faith in. The blind as always, may indeed follow and be fooled by the Evil that hides within certain minds, that is truly sad, an ultimate insult and injustice to any God by any name.

In memory of all missing friends

Words From Sura 2 of The Koran (Quran)

Verily, they who believe (Muslims), and they who follow the Jewish religion, and the Christians, and the Sabeties - whoever of these believeth in God and the last day, and doeth that which is right, shall have their reward with their Lord: fear shall not come upon them, neither shall they be grieved.

- The Koran, like the Bible, is a scripture of peace, not war -

Echoes of the past, present pains, visions of the future.

Jihad in the Modern World?

Tolerance. Intolerance. Love. Hatred. All for the name of God?. In the twenty-first century you humans are still living with and have yet to sort out the inherited mixed legacy of world history. Not your fault, but remains your problem. Disputed borders of countries. Borders of faiths. Borders of tolerance.

The middle-east area is of course a key area and rather a fire-keg mix of the history of all your religions and today's most urgent and difficult problem to solve. When the words stop the wars begin, the people suffer. Not much has changed in thousands of years. Today, unfortunately for all the word Jihad (meaning Holy War in Arabic) is echoed freely by some right now. But what does it actually mean and how could it change the future?

Well to put it in a nutshell (although many still sadly prefer a bombshell), the concept itself has actually very noble origins of self protection and not today's universally miss-understood concept of attack. The once fragmented tribes of Arabia could use it to be called upon to unite as one unity, to protect and defend lands and faith from assault by either Infidel (non believer in Islam) or indeed other neighbouring country's,(although these may have been populated by people of the same faith).

How could this religious belief and concept if implemented today change the future?. Well, think further into the future. What happens if the worst case scenario evolves and the present difficulties get out of hand and become regular tragedies whatever the scale. Well, if you have a vision to the future, then the western countries may eventually declare and put in legislation, a no religious tolerance policy to any faith that declares war. This would have the result, that whatever the faith involved it could not be practised and tolerated in the countries under attack. This would result in the faithful, whether involved or not, having to return to a land where they are free to practise. This would then cause a very real down to earth economic cultural and social crisis for the Globe. A religious form of Berlin Wall. Not the way forward for humanity as a whole. But a real possibility if the words stop the wars begin the people suffer.

It is worth remembering, that no religion was ever created to justify warfare. All teach peace, in their own way, to all the many human cultures. It is only some of your human people, who are merely passing through time, that fail the test of peace, that all these many books convey.

Please whatever your faith may be,

pray for your humanity to be at Peace,

not in pieces.

In Toon. Out of Tune Creations.

Watching your human race evolve throughout time, has always been an enjoyable and most interesting experience. You humans have now and have always, expressed yourselves and portrayed your own views of the varied existence around you, in many artistic and sometimes, quite bizarre ways.

To take a point in Time. Lately. Cartoons that have been printed in Denmark, have caused quite a reaction around the world, to their appearance in various newspapers.

It would appear? That the cartoonist of those drawings. Thought it would be of amusment and maybe, almost sub concisely, proceeded to translate the many acts of violence, that some of you humans have inflicted upon themselves and others. Into drawing a strange, alternative effigy, of the Creative Spirit of Peace and Light, which has now become offensive, to many dedicated followers. These printed drawings purport to show, that the Spirit of Peace and Light, was actually supporting those that inflict violence upon others.

Well of course, the creator Spirit of everything, would not support any sort of destruction of the very things that it has itself created, why would that be so? Therefore, the drawings would rightly be seen as offensive.

But what has been the reaction of some humans? .. Well.. To create more violence?.. Strange?..

So?.. Would this violent reaction, prove to the creator of those drawings, that they were right in their own views?.. Well.. No.. It just proves, that not all you humans choose follow the peaceful path and be in respect of other peoples views of creation and their own, particular, sensitivities.

The Da Vinci Code. A Crazy Book Conundrum.

Viewing events today, I see that there is a bit of trouble in the news lately, for the writer Dan Brown, author of the rather popular book and film, The Da Vinci code.

Seems that the authors of another book, The Holy Blood And The Holy Grail. Claim that Mr Browns own book, takes it’s basic story line (about Jesus not dying on the cross and marrying Mary Magdalene) from their own printed novel.

Whatever, the merit there, the basic fact is, that if read and taken as fictional works, both books and story lines are interesting and thoughtful. But if taken and read as factual, both books seek to devalue the immense and timeless story of the Cross itself, written within the pages of the Bible.

Make your own judgements if you see the film and read these novels. But it may be good to remember. That films and novels are not manufactured with such interest, as to be remembered throughout the test of time. Where the Holy books on the other hand. Have stood the test of time, to the present day and their original peaceful text, context and content, is really best left alone to conjecture and possible fictional event writing.

A thoughtful Peace Faith.

Could natural disasters such as earthquakes, storms etc, be an act of a vengeful Spirit Of Peace and Light toward mankind, its own creation?

Or could these horrible things be the product of an Evil Darkness, laughing itself silly, at mankind’s thoughtless, unintended support for it?

Maybe, all these horrible things are just an act of Nature?

Something to contemplate yourself and the answer you may arrive to, really depends, where you put your own thoughts and faith, doesn’t it?

The average human pecking order of life.

GOD... A Supreme being, creator of everything. If you want to attach thanks, blame, seek guidance, have faith in or not, or just wish to ignore, this is the feller (or lass) for you, depending upon your own free thoughts.

WOMAN... Also considered a supreme being, but within households. Magical qualities, able to empty wallets in seconds or spend hours touching every item of clothing in shops without a single purchase. First temptation of man, pictures of whom now create vast wealth for the seedy creative types and content filler for every newspaper world-wide.

MAN... Each thinks himself to be a supreme being. Until marriage, then finds himself replaced by the above.

TEENAGER... Possessed at thirteen with dark abilities. Surly, stubborn almost attains woman's wallet emptying abilities. Later turns the car into a trash can and quickly develops homicidal tendencies behind the wheel.

CHILD... Emanates foul smelling fluids from both ends, attention seeking. Unfortunately, may return to this state in adulthood when drinking alcohol.

Your human World.

Swings And Roundabouts.

In 1945 a dictator, detached from reality, sat deep in his underground Bunker within his capital Berlin. Right to the very end he ordered his troops to fight to the last for his regime which was already ending it's short time in history's very long book. Many family's at that time on both sides lost loved ones, never to take their children to the swings and roundabouts of local parks again.

Today, history's swings and roundabouts has replayed this sort of scenario in Iraq and we can only hope that it will never be repeated anywhere else in the future. But no matter how bad things may seem today in the news, or what happens, in fifty or a hundred years time, the events of today will be just a very distant memory and another page in another book. War, well, it’s simply not cricket is it and quite frankly, well, it sucks. A Pity dictators throughout History did not think the same way. No matter how powerful they or their regimes may be, or have been and what chaos they have caused on this planet, the Almighty spirit of Peace will ultimately be their final Judge and as we follow the serious side of conflict in the World today, I am reminded of the written Proverb in one of your human books. 20,23.

“The fear of the Lord tendeth to life: And he that hath it shall abide satisfied: He shall not be visited by Evil“.

War mongers it seems, always say that God is on their side, but, they really consider themselves the ultimate power and are never satisfied with the power that they hold, always seeking more through the pain of others. They are, as history shows, always visited by, or are a product of, the Evil of Human War.