Arne K Lund

Tolerance,love and peace

Wednesday, 20. May 2009, 07:26:18

This blog is mainly about tolerance, and how difficult it is to live "the good life" For me the good life is the same as the right life. A life where I love God, his creations and myself. Only through loving the first two I can truely love myself, because I and God's creation are interdependent. I do not believe that God is dependent on anything.
In Norway we have recently had a discussion on hijab in the police force. It is strange to think that the Bible, and epecially St. Paul, says a lot more about/for hijab than the Koran, wich only mentions it indirectly as far as I know.
But Paul was a very wise man. His words:
So there is no difference between Jews and Gentiles, between slaves and free men, between men and women: you are all one in union with Christ Jesus (Gal. 3. v.28). form a sort of background for my understandig of "tolerance".
It is strange that it took the church more than 1000 years to understand this with slaves and free men, and we are still working on / clearly not undrestanding, the truth about men and women yet. And we will probably never understand/practice his "Song of love" untill our hearts of stone is completely changed.
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LIFE AND LOVE,RELIGIONS AND TOLERANCE.

Thursday, 30. August 2007, 07:23:17

religion, christianity, love, tolerance

Dear friends, and especially my indian friends. Lately I have been thinking about the words "rice - christians", meaning people that become christians because they gain something by it, an not because they believe christianity is more true than their old religion. In norwegian papers there has been a small discussion of this. Especially people from the lowest cast, the "untouchables" becoming christians (and a few becoming muslims) en masse, because this is the only way to "move upwards" for them in the indian society. I know that the laws do not permit discrimination due to cast, race etc. And that real measures has been taken to put this laws into effect.
I am an admirer of Mahatma (the great spirit) Gandhi. As a true hindu he fought against this discrimination in words and deeds. But to day I am afraid that the more intolerant groups of hinduism is on the march forward. (Like I fear intolerant groups in the "Christian west" and many muslim countries).
I do not prefer an all tolerant world religion, that necessarily will be very intolerant on anybody that is not tolerant in its specially defined way. (I see a lot of it already). I trust the good in man and fear the evil in him.
Dear friends. What is your meaning?

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Hinduism,Cristianity and other religions.

Tuesday, 12. June 2007, 20:09:18

hinduism, christianity, religion, politics

Dear friends, and especially my indian friends. Lately I have been thinking about the words "rice - christians", meaning people that become christians because they gain something by it, an not because they believe christianity is more true than their old religion. In norwegian papers there has been a small discussion of this. Especially people from the lowest cast, the "untouchables" becoming christians (and a few becoming muslims) en masse, because this is the only way to "move upwards" for them in the indian society. I know that the laws do not permit discrimination due to cast, race etc. And that real measures has been taken to put this laws into effect.
I am an admirer of Mahatma (the great spirit) Gandhi. As a true hindu he fought against this discrimination in words and deeds. But to day I am afraid that the more intolerant groups of hinduism is on the march forward. (Like I fear intolerant groups in the "Christian west" and many muslim countries).
I do not prefer an all tolerant world religion, that necessarily will be very intolerant on anybody that is not tolerant in its specially defined way. (I see a lot of it already). I trust the good in man and fear the evil in him.
Dear friends. What is your meaning?

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