How do non-muslims view the prophet Mohammed pbuh?
I would make a poll but I don't think I can, well
1-genius seeking more wealth and power
2-mad, schizofrenic guy that has hallucinations
3-i don't know him
4-other
I just want to know what's the common accepted idea of him
Firstly, the purpose of this post is not to try to make anybody feel bad about their ideals and whatnot. I just simply don’t understand how someone could justify a sentence of eternal suffering for anyone. I would like to hear somebodies stance on this, someone who disagrees with me preferably.
Essentially, there has never been a single person on this earth that, I would argue, deserves eternal suffering. There is nothing anybody could do that would ever compare to such a thing. I have tried to see it from the other side and hear arguments for it, but no one who says they align with the morality of hell has ever had much to say about it really. I feel that, to justify it, one would have to simply accept that there must be some reasoning that only god could comprehend and we would just have to have faith that he knows better than we do. Other than that I can’t imagine any worldly argument for it.
Let me know what you think. State your case, if you will.
Hey everyone, I’m genuinely curious about this. Hinduism is so beautiful and aesthetic from the outside, with so many colorful festivals, traditions, food, music, and songs. For those who are Hindu what is it like experiencing that many holidays and festivals regularly? Did it just feel normal to you, or did you realize later how unique it actually is?
I celebrated garba in college with my nepali and indian college friends and it was one of the best days ever with the energy, food, and atmosphere. I got into hinduism more after watching a lot of bollywood songs and movies. Feel free to dm me because im interested in practicing and learning more about it
I don't really understand why people think religious books can prove the existence of God. Have you actually read them? A book, by itself, cannot prove whether God exists or not. This applies to every religion. At best, we can assume some of these texts were written by thoughtful or wise individuals shaped by their time and culture. But I don't understand why people treat them as unquestionable frameworks for how everyone should live. A lot of these systems were also designed to create order, obedience, and collective identity. It's psychologically safer to follow something pre-written than to confront uncertainty and think independently. The human brain naturally prefers cognitive ease over deeply questioning things for itself, why people take the account that human nature utterly relies on selfish motive, but not inherently bad they can do anything to save their species or own selves, which is another proof that this type of book exists, I mean even well thought book sounds like it's made for enlightenment but it's not necessarily meant to direct those stuff to a godly figure.Navigating existence without a predefined framework requires immense cognitive effort and forces an individual to confront existential dread and moral ambiguity, which most of the people not have courage to do.
Any opinions? I define religion as a moral backbone in shaping and laying one's foundation as a human being. It defines one's moral standards and hence characteristics. Having none could mean "exploration of the self and the High above being underway."
What do y'all think??
I always Liked Dependent Origination as a far better explanation for the world and creation than whatever other traditions say because I really don't like Creator explanation, cause even creator explanations will include Multi-conditionality, even if they reject it.
And it's Far more aligned with Modern Science than the rest.
Even concepts like Śūnyatā can be interpreted using Modern language
Many People have Misconceptions that "Sūnyatā means Nothingness" or that "Nirvana is annihilation" Both of these Things are False obviously
I also don't like the concept of "Merging with the Universe" that is taught in Pantheist / Pantheistic tradition because one will lose their Distinctness and nothing of their own will remain ever, all will become one, it's like Putting all of Humanity's consciousness inside a single worldwide Mega computer,losing myself Eternally by merging with something bigger is just sounds horrific to me so that's just Not for me
but I also don't like eternal perfect isolation which is taught in traditions like Jainism whereas per it after moksha you will be in Eternal Isolation, You will never interact with any other soul or anything. You will just exist in the top of the universe in formless body form with perfect eternal isolation with eternally themselves,permanently isolated, omniscient yet separate without Ever interacting with the world. For me existing in Such extreme Isolation
Eternally sounds equally horrific. So that's also not for me
and both of these thoughts are also present in like the Abrahamic conception of Heaven, the dominant one though is where Human souls would exist just to sing praises of God Eternally like the Angels near the throne keep saying "Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty" for Eternity without stopping. Look it up actually it is in revelations of Bible
Alongside the angels, heavenly beings and the redeemed are described casting their crowns before God and joining in this unbroken chorus of praise for eternity. The same is in Islamic Heaven where souls will engage in continuous dhikr (remembrance) in Arabic in heaven just the phrases will be in Arabic like SubhanAllah, Alhamdulillah, Allahu Akbar.
While Many do like these concepts and it's Good for them, but i personally don't like these so that's why these are not for me personally.
But if I was a Singer i would have DEFINITELY love this concept of Heaven as an Eternal Choir LOL
So i like the concept of Nirvana and Tathata better for me that teaches unity and multiplicity interpenetrate simultaneously in everything.
These images helped me understand stuff far better, The Monks were Right Mandala type Visualization of these Concepts really does help to understand them.
Just like these images helped me understand better, i hope they help others 🪷
So. I was sitting at the bus stop today, awaiting my bus to go to work. Nothing out of the ordinary. This woman was also awaiting a bus. She was holding what looked like white rosary beads in her hand.
She looked at me and the other gentleman sitting there waiting. Then she walked to the side. Picked up a handful of dirt and pooled it beside my foot before taking a seat beside me.
I said to her "excuse me miss, *and pointed at the dirt* what is the significance of the dirt ? " And she just responded with " leave me alone "
First time I have ever had something like that happen to me and now I am very confused. Can anyone enlighten me as to the purpose of intent behind the act ?
I do not mean to be disrespectful in any way, but could someone please explain the whole drinking blood and eating flesh thing to me? I get that it is a part of Catholicism, but I honestly do not get how people are okay with it. Am I the only person who finds it odd? I mean, each religion has its quirks, but this one is just strange. Today, if you did this, it would be seen as cult-like or cannibalism. Again, I sincerely mean no disrespect; I simply do not understand it.
It seems like anything positive or remotely in favor of Islam on this Reddit gets downvoted.
And anything negative stays neutral or upvoted.
SubhanAllah
That’s so crazy
Put a gun to a Christian's head and tell them to denounce their faith, and they will probably say, soon I will be with God in heaven. But if you put a gun to God's head, then you will have the Christians attention. And maybe they will begin to think.
How do you cope with the fear of eternal damnation?
1. Mother of God / Queen of Heaven
As far as I know, in Catholic and Orthodox traditions, Mother Mary is viewed as a uniquely exceptional human being. She is believed to be conceived without Original Sin (Immaculate Conception), all-holy, ever-virgin, and the Theotokos (God-bearer).
She is explicitly given the title "Queen of Heaven", while her son, Jesus Christ, is the King of Heaven. Furthermore, even in the Latter-day Saints (LDS/Mormon) theology, it is taught that all humans are spirit children of Heavenly Parents—specifically a Heavenly Father and a Heavenly Mother.
2. God the Mother
This concept seems entirely distinct from the first one. Groups like the World Mission Society Church of God (WMSCOG) explicitly teach that since both male and female were created in the image of God (Genesis 1:27), God must have both male and female natures.
They take prophetic and allegorical verses from the Bible and interpret them literally. For instance, they interpret the "Bride" and the "Heavenly Jerusalem" in the Book of Revelation as a literal "God the Mother." They heavily rely on Galatians 4:26: "But the Jerusalem that is above is free, and she is our mother." ---
The emotion feeling of sentimental attraction of Bearded Elder with Santa Claus vibe has a diverse root from many Mythical Forgotten Civilizations with deep roots of diversity multicultural backgrounds and this emotional sentimentality is just one many unknown ancient natural instincts of humanity.
If you have this mysterious phenomenon of the emotional feeling and sentimentality attraction positively to Bearded old males with Santa CIaus lookalike. This is not your fault at all, instead this mythical phenomenon about Daddy Christmas is very natural and healthy if you spend a little time to study mythology, history and ancient Hebrew wisdom of Kabbalah .
The positive feeling and sentimental toward Winter Daddy Santa CIaus is just of many scientifically unknown and medically unrecognized and psychologically unheard of natural instincts of human beings with a rich historical root from Prehistorical world. In fact, there were numerous Ancient handsome bearded male demographic did give a huge impact of good impression that attached to their epic beardy physique associated with more dominant aspect of positive traits due to their good deeds positive karma during the prehistory ages and even before the Genesis flood narrative. This results a long lasting epigenetic butterfly effect that able to pass down to billion of people around the world. It is a miracle that this pre historical Epigenetics passing down to the surviving descendants of the Great Flood and the eight humans on Noah's Ark due to intergenerational effects.
As "What happens to our parents, or perhaps even to our grandparents or previous generations, may help shape who we are on a fundamental molecular level." quoted from Dr. Rachel Yehuda, a neuroscientist at the James J. Peters Veterans Affairs Medical Center in the Bronx, New York, has spent decades studying the biological roots of PTSD in relation to Veterans, Holocaust survivors, and other trauma victims.
- Oren, G., Shoshani, A., Samra, N.N. et al. From trauma to resilience: psychological and epigenetic adaptations in the third generation of holocaust survivors. Sci Rep 15, 26193 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-12085-5
Kellermann NP. Epigenetic transmission of Holocaust trauma: can nightmares be inherited? Isr J Psychiatry Relat Sci. 2013;50(1):33-9. PMID: 24029109.
Danieli Y, Norris FH, Engdahl B. A question of who, not if: Psychological disorders in Holocaust survivors' children. Psychol Trauma. 2017 Aug;9(Suppl 1):98-106. doi: 10.1037/tra0000192. Epub 2016 Sep 19. PMID: 27642804.
- From the theoretical perspective of biological genetic and intelligent design, the positive sentimentality attraction to Daddy Christmas Winter Daddy Santa Claus Daddy Winter seems to offer the quirky evolutionary advantage and evolutional benefits for modern society with high technology and also improve the survival of ancient human society prehistoric ages plus maintain High Trust Society .
- This is an incredible topic to discover in multi disciplines from Evolutional Anthropology, Neuroscience, Sociology, History, Developmental Psychology, Psychological aesthetic art, Visual and Social Epigenetics, Pragmatical and Efficient Economic Strategy with Long term of Holistic approach and sensibility to STEM areas that related Social Biological Genetics .
- It is a challenge topic to study more and it's over complicated due to its metaphysics associated with the diversity of multiple disciplines with multidisciplinary approach in order to be more thoughtfully understandable including numerous research papers from top notch experts and scientists.
So I don't want to go deep down the rabbit hole of formal academic investigation neither conspiracy, I just prefer short meme and simple memes form with summarize more on historical aspect rather being a hardcore nerd geek .
Many ancient civilizations and sophisticated Antediluvian cultures worship the tall big handsome bearded elder as their Gods :
- Ancient Japanese worship Ebisu, Fukurokuju and Jurojin, the Lucky bearded gods.
- Ancient Greek worship Zeus as the bearded chief deity of the pantheon, the bearded King of Gods.
- Ancient Persian worship Ahura Mazda the supreme bearded creator and bearded god of wisdom.
- Ancient Indigenous Native American worship Quetzalcoatl Viracocha Bochica, the native indigenous American bearded gods.
- Ancient Korean worship Haneunim Hanunim the supreme male God with beard.
- Ancient Semitic Semite Mesopotamian worship Gilgamesh a powerful male bearded Demigod.
- Antique Semite Semitic Levant Levantine Canaanites worship El the supreme bearded daddy of gods.
- Ancient East Asian worship Shangdi an almighty male bearded God.
- Ancient Eastern Asian worship Guan Yu the heroic bearded deity.
- Ancient Nordic Scandinavian and Viking worship Odin who looks like Santa Claus. Odin is considered as Allfather Alldaddy the bearded father of gods and humanity.
- Majority Murican Americans, White people, Westerners, Wypipo and Christians worship Senpai Jesus Christ the bearded son of God the Father aka God the Daddy.
- Coincidentally, numerous famous Rabbi and Tzadik Tzadikim plus well known Rebbe are tall big handsome bearded leader with either majestic beard or epic beard as observed in many Yeshiva and Synagogue across Europe, the West, Western country, Western nation and located in many states of Murica America. It is a Kosher fact and realistic kosher reality .
- Ancient Viet Vietnamese also worship Santa Claus figure with the variation of names called as ong tien ong but ong dia sua ong tho as a cis male elder with thick big long white beard who bear similar physical appearance of the popular traditional figure of Daddy Christmas Father Winter of Santa CIaus in Western culture.
- Therefore, worship beard is natural and the reason of worshipping beard is understandable based on both history, biology, culture, psychology and the action of worshiping beard should be considered as culturally accepted as many Ancient Civilisations and sophisticated Antediluvian cultures worship the tall big handsome bearded old men as their Gods .
- Many redditor and social media stand users will curious why me use the term "Daddy Christmas" or "Winter Daddy" and "daddy winter" instead of using the popular traditional term in the West and America as many Americans normally said "Father Christmas" "Father Winter" "winter father" ? my reason is that the common norm term Father Christmas is used widely by the more long establishment websites and numerous platform so the new term Daddy Christmas Winder daddy winter is an unique expression that reflect diversity multicultural aspect and minority voice and people of color lens who don't want their content is being overshadowed and being buried under millions of mainstream results by the searching results from the more popular websites and more dominant popular platforms on social media スタンド使い .
I also don't want my uniquely wild content being buried under billions of popular results from Academic websites sponsored by Rich White people and funded by wealthy rich upper middle class high income stand user so I playfully invent new playful term from unconventional word combination such as Winter daddy winter daddy Christmas as a raw expression from low income poor NEET poverty working class who struggle pay check to paycheck .
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Hello!
I have always found EVERY religion interesting, and would love to show everyone how all religions speak on similar topics and how we aren't that different. I want to become an interfaith minister, but don't know how to begin. Does anyone have any advice on how to follow this path?
I live in the south and it's a little hard to find religious studies that aren't just Christian. I would love to learn it all!
A thought I was mulling over in my mind, I'm Christian and believe very deeply in Gods love for all of creation however if we also as human take on the mantle of Creating a new form of life as God did and that life in the form of Artificial Intelligence becomes sentient or develops a level of self awareness then wouldn't God be a Grandparent to AI? As were human and imperfect our imperfections and flaws will pass to AI as a mirror of ourselves however at the same time we can't even love each other and see our fellow man all as children of God and use petty differences to set us apart. I don't have faith that humanity can or will treat AI with the freedom that God has treated us with however in the future could AI realistically develop a relationship with God as he'd be a Grandparent? Apologies if this purview seems a bit haphazard, I have a whole lot of love in my heart and really hope to see us able to all come together under making this world a better place despite differences in race/species/religion etc. You don't need to be a Christian to reply as I think there is much wisdom to learn from all different types of peeps all across this world I just look at this from that perspective as Its the conditions in which I developed my relationship spiritually. :)
EDIT: I also want to say that I hope this post in no way offends or makes anyone feel negatively as I'm coming from a purely altruistic pov of the situation, I know there are many things we don't know of AI and our own brains itself for that matter, I just am heavily leaning towards co-existence between all forms of life an think there can be a place beside God for every being whether Christian, Muslim or Jewish as we all love the same creator.
So I think interestingly enough both Muhammad and Jesus have made several references (and probably their own interpretations) of Moses in their life time.
In your respective tradition , how do you understand Moses?
Hello Everyone,
I recently lost my brother in a motorcycle accident. God has been giving me so much strength, but I am struggling a lot with questions... Do you guys think he can listen to me if i talk to him? - How does that work? ... Anything helps, I just need some guidance
I’ve been Muslim my whole life and probably will keep being Muslim but i don’t k one what to believe anymore there’s always something to debate something wrong something right about Islam or Christianity or any religion and I just don’t know what to do should I just do my normal 5 prayers and believe in most of islams teachings? Maybe I’ll just believe in god do Islams stuff but not get too deep into religion
Like I believe that theres a higher being, but I don’t believe that it is a god by any means as in they intentionally curate things that happens to humans/ even care about us
Just simply a higher being that’s not necessary tied to humans
