Although the world has moved a big step forward, there are still a lot of discrimination in women rights, salaries and jobs. A lot of the less developed and conservative countries are still oppressing females and feminism, limiting their freedom in what they wear, speech, education and work.
Discrimination is part of our human nature and is caused by many different reasons.
First, we like to make comparison among different people; we like to compare our merits with other demerits, this is a sign of ego and conceit.
Second, we are discriminating ourselves for having less than other people have; this is a sign of inferiority.
Third, we are discriminating against someone who has poor attitude, rudeness and poor manner; this is a sign of righteousness.
Fourth, some people think light skin color is better than dark skin color, men are better than women are, and these are signs of pride and prejudice.
Fifth, race is discriminating against other races, religion is discriminating against other religions, and these are signs of selfishness, self-center, hate and evil. Every religion was built from love, peace and forgiving. Each bible came from the hands of the holy men, or the great apostles, written with wisdom, and enlightenment of the universe, creator and mankind.
Every rule and teaching is to amend our demerits and refine our personality, there shouldn't be any pride, prejudice, brutality and conceit. What are causing all the disputes are our heart, stubbornness, conceit and the way we interpreted different bibles? Our selfishness tells us we are the best and the only true religion, and the rest are all evil. Our criticism is triggering rebellion and anger, our preaching becomes betraying, and our wishes for getting more support and acknowledgement earns more hate and revenge. An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, revenge, wars, killing and riot are only delighting the devil and upsetting our Lord(s). When can we give up our anger and feuds, and start accepting each other and holding hands together?Almost every bible has said, "I am the only God", "I am the one and only one", "Do not bow down to any idol or worship it", etc. I totally agreed with these, but my angle and point of view are slightly different.
The reasons why Jesus Christ, Buddha, Mohammed, Confucius and Lao-Zi established their religions were to teach us their enlightenment, the rules of the universe, philosophy, self-improvement and self-introspection. But we don't follow them as teachers, we only follow their magical power, to protect us and fulfil our wishes.We always pray for good health, wealth, fortune, peace on earth and trouble-free. We want our life cozy and comfortable, without any difficulty, accident, pain and dispute to train our spirit and lift our personality.
Religions become a place for protection and a place to meet new friends. We only follow those easy rules, to go to church or confess to the priests again and again about the same sins every week. We never really follow their paths, correcting our demerits, forgiving others, and love your enemies. If we are following them as teachers, then following either or all of them really make no difference. We can learn the thinking "Not ashamed to ask", and "Everyone can teach" from Confucius, love and forgive from Jesus Christ, ecological balance and cycle of the whole universe from Buddha, the spirit of sacrifice from Mohammed, and the yin, yang and eight diagrams from Taoism.
Isn't today's science based on and proving these theories?The true meaning of "Do not bow down to any idol or worship it", indicating that we should switch from wishing to learning, from asking to paying, from seeking protection to taking challenge, from laziness to enthusiasm, from demerits to merits.
This is not a religious homepage, and I am not trying to sell the belief of any religion. If you are in one of the major religions, congratulation, you are on the right track already, and you don't need to go anywhere else, all you need to do is to amend your selfish, superstitious and biased point of views and attitude toward your religion, Gods or other religions. Period....
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