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So a Christian who had done the most heinous crimes imaginable like mass murder for example, on his deathbed could then with the fear of impending death repent for what he did yet a Muslim, Jew, Hindu, Buddist or whatever who had spent their whole lives doing good deeds would still go to hell?
how come the devil always has the best music?
The Bible doesn't give an thorough description of heaven. That why I said it could be what you make of it.
Jewish or Orthodox?
Um... because it's what the Bible says.
I do... and karma. I don't like the heaven and hell idea because I feel it's used to enforce social control. Karma suits me better because it basically means that if you play nice, nice stuff happens instead of "believe this or shag her and you go to hell"...
Christianity is all about God and the life of Christ and you have to believe in God to get in to heaven. Which is why they pester people in town trying to convert them, why they ask if you want to be 'saved'.
i don't like that bit ...the bit you don't like might just be the truth.
surely religion is about conviction and comitment ...where some of the rules are NOT ...to your liking and choosing.
I've never thought that. I always assumed that if Christianity is the religion then God would accept you into Heaven regardless of whether you are a Muslim, Jew, Hindu, Buddist or if you do not believe in a God or religion at all. I think its all to do with how you've lived your life, people who have lived 'good' lives will have eternal paradise & people who haven't, wont.
It's hard to explain what i mean By 'good' life, i don't mean people who've never broken a single law. I think it means people who have never intentionally harmed anyone & just made the best & done the best they can with what they had.
As for people saying sorry on their deathbed in the hopes of getting to Heaven i think they have to genuinely mean it. To me there is a difference between saying sorry because you are afraid of the consequences if you don't & saying sorry and actually meaning it. I think you have to mean it to get into Heaven.
Anyways that is just my opinion.
I don't have a religion, it's really a path of beliefs and I see Karma like this...
Every thing you do has a consequence, whether it's positive or negative, and your actions should always be in the right mind and in good will. For example, you throw a stone in a pond of still water and it causes ripples... well your thoughts and actions also cause ripples in what I see as... well, a cosmic universe type thing. Do good and good will happen to you. Always do what feels right to you.
I don't see any real conviction in it and as for re-incarnation, I'd never go as far as that football manager who said that paraplegic kids are in wheelchairs because of sins in a past life. At the same time I don't believe in sin, but lessons taught by our actions when we fuck up. So foolish human choices... well they're just life and we learn from our mistakes.
I'm pagan, well I've said that before but I'll shove it in this thread anyway... and I believe a lot of teachings from Druidism, for example respect for everything, continious life and to revere nature.
Um... I don't quite get the 'supermarket shopping bit', but I'm not one of those overweight Buddhists who goes to yoga and who watches Living TV all day. I'm just a young woman who follows pagan beliefs eclectically, sure I believe in Karma but speaking of the Celts/Druids/Goddess religion it's called the 'Law of the Returning Tide'. However, Karma's easier to say.