Religious Leadership: The 8 Rules Behind Successful Congregations by Dan Desmarques

Author:Dan Desmarques
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: religious beliefs, religious tolerance, how to choose a religion, how religion influences politics
Publisher: 22 Lions Bookstore
Published: 2019-05-02T00:00:00+00:00

How to Explain the Truth

When someone tells me that the bible is the only book from god, the second question I must ask this person, is: Have you ever read other religious books? If that person answers ‘no’ then I am certainly dealing with an ignorant soul. Because, until you read the religious books from all other religions, you can’t say that the bible is the best one. In fact, if you read all the religious books out there, or a great vast amount of them, you will soon see that the bible is just one more among many sharing the same truth. All religious books talk about the same eternal glory of God. And even if you wish to deal with the topic of God and truth altogether, know that there is only one — One God and One Truth.

How you interpret God or interpret truth, is another issue to discuss. But, in a sense, we can say that it’s perfectly normal to have many religions in the world. We could indeed have many more religions, sharing the same truth. And people have the right to choose the perspective in which they feel more comfortable with. But we can’t say that one is superior to the others. It would be the same as to say that a white person is superior to a yellow or black person. That is ignorance. For imagine that one day, beings that are blue, grey and green, come from the sky, and show themselves superior to the whites and blacks and yellows and everyone else in between. What will we then say about them? That whoever has the green or grey color on his skin, or even blue, is superior to anyone else? And why do white people often consider themselves superior to other skin colors on Earth? All these ideas emerge from cultural perspectives. When the Roman Empire was ruling half of the known world, nobody was saying that white people were superior to black people. Because the Roman Empire was fundamentally composed of people from North Africa and the Mediterranean, i.e., what we call nowadays as brown people. And so, we can say that the Roman Empire is the Empire of the brown people.

Furthermore, if you investigate the writings of the Romans, you will see something very interesting: They considered countries seen today as predominantly Nordic, as inferior to their civilization. They said in their writings that these countries had nothing useful, were not civilized but basically composed by barbarians, which in those times meant people who don’t bath, don’t know how to cook proper food and eat with their hands. And they were using most of these countries, basically, as a factory for slaves — all people of blond hair and blue eyes served as slaves for the empire or concubines for the warlords and businessmen. They were taking their slaves mostly from north and east European nations. They even wrote that England for them was nothing more than forests with wild animals and ignorant people — a fertile ground only for hunting.

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