02-01-2022, 03:24 PM
(02-01-2022, 02:59 PM)jafar Wrote:(02-01-2022, 01:46 PM)Loki Wrote: Proselytism is the way religion works but is not the correct way, and results in distortions created by the teacher in the mind of the student. Q/A only results in distortions created by the student in its own mind which is the only acceptable way from STO point of view. You can suggest to someone an idea but you must let him/her reject it freely if you want to be of service.
Couldn't agree more, yet again I recognized the pattern of IS vs IS NOT here.
While STO engage in dialogue (Question & Answer)
STS / Religion discourage questioning, especially towards pre-defined dogmas, any effort of questioning / probing is regarded as 'blasphemy' / 'disbelieve' and responded with threat of punishment.
Yet the IS NOT act as a catalyst for one to seek and finally found the IS.
Religions in the thousands of years passed since their inception, were changed by generations of people, becoming more and more a control instrument and not a mean for spiritual awakening. All religions agree God is one but they disagree abut who has the key to God's Kingdom. It is strange religions cannot comprehend a loving God but only a revengeful God. Religious God is more famous for his punishments than for his love.