It seems many religions are hanging on by threads.

What I mean by this is that a lot of older religions, not all of them, are beginning to incorporate new rules or teachings based on how the world is expanding and changing.
Some religions are even throwing old doctrines out the window and using new.

Why?
If you intend on following a religion, you need to know how it started, why it started, and what it teached. You can't learn it all and then throw out the stuff you don't like just because it inconvinienced you.

I see this a lot. People will jump into a religion and leave out the most basic, fundamental rule of that religion.
Teens and adults do it a lot when they have not properly been introduced to their said religion.

We don't need religion to change to meet today's standards. If we are going to follow, we should at least follow what was once set before us, not what is being set before us now.

Any comments?

It's always been this way though. To use my own christianity as the example, went from about 400 years of being a multi denominational jewish sect to suddenly being catholic under constantine, constantine even went as far as to demand christians move the sabbath to sunday so that pagans and christians would have a single day of worship. Eventualy many catholics broke off & became protestants, eventualy many protestants broke off & became pentecostals, jehovah witness', seventh day adventists, etc etc. Just as the religious right have abandoned caring for the poor today so did catholic leaders during Martin Luthors time. In the end, we have to come back to tolerance, because some religions change because they feel it's right for them, we can agree to disagree with the changes but in the end it's all up to the individual;^]

You're right.
But maybe I meant the wrong thing.

What I was trying to get at is... there is one core belief for every religion, right? There is usually that one basic message that is fundemental.

A lot of religions are taking that message and either throwing it away to make a new or completely warping the original idea.
By that, they hang on by threads.

Of course religions change and branch.
There are still a lot of witches out there that still perform animal sacrafice, and a lot that think that is completely wrong. I am sure if every witch were following the old way, a lot of people definately wouldn't want to be witches.

I guess the new rules humanize it for us... maybe make it easier to take in. so, maybe they aren't killing the old message... just making it a bit more humanistic for your time.

In response to my reply to you...

Excuse me if that was all over the place.
I am a little under the influence of marijuana.

Haha.

May I say, that right there is one of the reasons I reject organised religions.

"We don't need religion to change to meet today's standards. If we are going to follow, we should at least follow what was once set before us, not what is being set before us now."


There is no way, in any form, I shall allow a misogynistic, ancient history, set of rules, be my guide.


I don't require a club to belong to, nor a pretty badge to define me..... I rip the labels off.

True that, and remember the "core" of any religion is subjective even among it's own followers. Many christians will say Jesus dying on the cross is the core of christianity, yet gnostics have believed that he escaped crucifiction as far back it seems as christianity itself;^]

haha, God did give every green seed..lol. Smoke some 4 me, I miss that stuff;^]

Will do!

Did the pic scare you?



It is not that scary really....just appears that way.

Haha. I thought you were the Forum security or something.

No, it's my minder.....here to mind I dont get suspended...again....or my guard, guarding my body from all the kiddies and their silly mail...

Cool.
The mail will never stop flooding in.
Your best bet is to move a mountain.
Maybe then the mail will flow downhill, onslaughting the innocent.