Religious Conversions

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it is not alright to be insistent that others adopt your belief so stop the spam please give us some relief

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Mark Koplin

Date: 8/18/2023 7:52:00 PM

I hear you brother! Well put!!

Unseeking Seeker
Date: 8/18/2023 8:29:00 PM

Thanks Mark. Presenting a belief is one thing if one feels so drawn, ramming it down the throat of others however, is a strict no no.

Kim Rodrigues

Date: 8/16/2023 6:09:00 PM

God gives choice. Love doesn’t want one to suffer hell so at least tells. No one will be without excuse at the end. Respect and love is important.

Unseeking Seeker
Date: 8/16/2023 7:29:00 PM

God, heaven, hell … these words represent different things to say a Christian, a Hindu, a Muslim, a Sikh and to a Buddhist. The words are ideas imposed by culture, belief systems. We imagine what scriptures say as true, we have not directly ‘seen’. Fine. All I’m saying is, let’s not insist our state of hypnosis is superior to someone else’s.

Victor Buhagiar

Date: 8/16/2023 9:10:00 AM

Conversions are an act of faith not insistence.

Unseeking Seeker
Date: 8/16/2023 7:21:00 PM

Forced conversions?

Tom Woody

Date: 8/16/2023 5:43:00 AM

Insistent no, persistent yes. No one should force their beliefs on another. On the other hand, if one truly feels their beliefs have worth, they should freely share out of love. For example, I and others like me have helped many to lead better lives by putting away harmful vices, immoral lifestyles, violent dispositions, suicidal tendencies etal. All by helping them understand there is a God in heaven who cares

Mark Koplin
Date: 8/18/2023 7:37:00 PM

You sound like a really good Christian man Tommy. I’ll bet you were a great father as well.

Unseeking Seeker
Date: 8/16/2023 7:51:00 AM

That is spirituality, Tom. Religion, on the other hand, is a belief system, spirituality is direct experience within (magnetism, light) or a nonverbal inquiry (meditation).