Weird? It's not weird it's normal, every religion has its own rituals. And no they aren't useless, the prayers we do 5 times a day is very healthy for the body.
I am quite sure there is a more effective way to gain a healthy body else than praying to the air.
No, maybe rituals arent useless, I mean... You get confidence in yourself. Thats what religion is about. You gain confidence in yourself by thinking that there is some kind of god taking care of you, giving luck to you and so on... If anything happy happens in your life? You say "thank god (|godname|)".
Old fashioned, nice word did you think for a moment how old Islam is? Of course it is old fashioned and we are very very happy with it. "Equality between men and women is horrible" you really shouldn't have said that. You live in Norway not in the middle-east where all the Muslims live. Unless you live in the middle-east you'll be brain-washed by the medias bullshit about the equality between men and women and how horrible it is..
The fact that you have cafe and bars in town where woman are not allowed to be is an example of bad equality between men and women.
I don't know how your "king of the country" system is, if its democracy, president, some kind of ruler because of family related stuff nor how many there are of them.
But how many of them are womens? How many company bosses in your country are womens?
I work in a restaurant in Norway, and my boss is a woman.
They're called irreligious people, right?
No. Mostly of the Norwegians are baptised and Confirmationed. Which means they are counted as Christians. And they celebrate Christian based holidays, marry girls/boys in a church.
But we don't do the annoying rituals that "brainwashed Christians" do, like participating in church 1 hour each Sunday. Its a huge waste of time.
And no, they are not bad people, they just don't care/priority those annoying rituals. I'm sure its fine once in a while if you have really nothing to do.
It is an important matter, in fact religion is the main key to the door of heaven. I don't blame you for not knowing how important religion is, all of your life you've been like this thinking its bullshit. The Quran is the last religious book written by a holy prophet and its the only book that hasn't been edited by normal people, if you read it carefully you'll learn new things every time you read it again and again.
Sorry, I prefer the idea of being reborn rather than living with skies fucking 19 virgins. That's just nasty and bloody! :thumbup:
And heaven/hell does not exist. Unless you consider the sun as hell, and your soul automatically gets thrown there by the speed of light once you die. And heaven? The skies? Or just a place that makes you happy and ~harmony~?. So you are not happy with your life now? You keep looking forward to get to heaven. And because of that, terrorists blow up their body ending up with nothing.
Sorry for criticizing only Muslim~ based stuff, I can do same with other religions, but this thread is about Muslim.
It's funny that you chose the word brain-washed when we actually aren't. We are following it and its rules because we find it a great source of knowledge and peaceful.
You will get even better knowledge by reading a science book. And reading books are peaceful! Perfect way to benefit your ritual time in a better way!
By the way until now none of you has mentioned one good thing about Islam that is one big proof that you only look at the bad things(according to you not the Muslims) and don't give a shit about the good things that religion teaches us. Sad but true...
Yes, I am sorry. Don't worry, I got lots of things against the other religions as well.
I posted a good example from the bible why christians never will go to heaven. (jews always go to heaven, they got no hell).
Hmmm :3
I've treid to ban religions for years, noone will listen. And in my eyes, christianity is my far worse then islam. There are more violence done (even today) in the name of christianity then islam.
How many people in Norway do you know about that has sacrificed their life or turned violence for a Christian reason? (Except grandparents++).
Yes, through history a lot of bad things happen, I am talking about year 2000 - 2010.
Can you tell me a good religion based upon "God" (God/Allah/YHVH)? God is a horribly evil person. He killed the first born of Eqypt, ordered the destruction of several places, commanded armies to do stuff etc.
Obama! He is ■■■■■■ and donates to charity! :thumbup:
Christianity is a strange religion. We go to church drinking and eating symbols of jesus himself. We don't HATE the crusifiction, but cherich it (look at any church), and christianities most popular paintings etc are of blood and violence.
I don't think they cherish it. But they don't bother to take it out of the church. Or change it.
Ye, like Christianity are any better on that point? It's the community you are in (or mere, the country) that desided to make it more equal. Christianity still gives men a hell lot more power. You can etc rape them to force them to marry you. Woman can't be prists etc.
You are wrong. In Norway, gay can marry each other and become Christians, and my girlfriends sister is a priest. A woman need to agree on a marriage ceremony to marry the man.
Yes, Norway are moving away from religions, even my gransparents don't believe in any God. And we can agree that religions got many flaws.
Yep.
No, but some choose to dedicate their life to their god. To them, there are no higher priority. And if they think god told them, they'll kill their entier family and friends.
Brainwashing!
Ow, seen jehovas? Seen true hardcore christians? They are just as bad, trust me.
They are brainwashed. Poor them. Thats what I try to avoid.
You don't think it's strange that god forgive you for anything if you tell a priest anonymicly what you have done, and later do a few prayers? You murder a guy, and the priest can say: Pray 5 times to Maria, and you will he forgiven.
It means religion is pure bullshit.
Look at many countries in africa and middle/south-america. Equality doesn't mean the same as in Europe, no matter the religion. I've heard it's not so bad in Islamic countries like Tunisia, Eqypt and Turky.
Thats what I mean with "modern", globalisation. We have to accept other religions, equality, since export, tourists, we get influenced by everyone.
@amiroslo
I am looking forward to your replying me with your ideas! :3