Being Too Religious

Being Too Religious

I find it very difficult to see how someone can be classed as too religious, this does not make sense to me. The only possible exception I can see would be when extremists use religion as an excuse for violence or oppression of any kind, however I do not see this as religious as it goes against any religious teachings of which I am aware. From the lecture it seemed that many people thought going from door to door to share your believed message of hope and peace was ‘too religious’, why? The Jehovah’s Witnesses came round my street two days ago, I wasn’t interested in their message so I politely thanked them for calling and wished them all the best, it wasn’t difficult and it took less then one minute, surely if you really believe in something that can give people eternal life you would want to share it and if it were true we would be grateful.

The best experiences of my life came while I was serving as a missionary for my church (known as the Mormons) for two years in Scotland. We knocked on a lot of doors and spoke to a lot of people, if someone wasn’t interested we would move on because eventually we knew that we would find people who needed the gospel, or just needed help with anything, that makes it worthwhile, through sharing the gospel, we were able to help people with so many different problems, like dealing with deaths and tragedies, giving up drugs, strengthening families, service for less able people and restoring faith in God. People who have the desire to share something that they believe is precious with others regardless of what religion they are should not be regarded as too religious but instead they should be given encouragement and support to continue there invaluable work in our communities.

I know my views on this subject are pretty strong but I guess it comes from knowing that if I didn’t knock on the doors I did in Scotland, I would never have been able to help so many people.

This is a website for information about my church, there is loads of information about missionaries and preaching the gospel, it even has a facility that allows you to talk live to members of the church.… http://www.mormon.org/welcome/0,6929,403-1,00.html

This is the reply I posted to http://peculierpeople.blogspot.com/

JARED LINEKAR said...

The book of Mormon is quite interesting, it's how we came to be called mormons. It is the writings of many prophets from the ancient America's from 600BC to 400AD when they were compiled by a prophet historian called Mormon. It teaches about Christ and his teachings, just as the old and new testament do, it is another testament of Jesus Christ. It was translated into English by a young man called Joseph Smith whom God visited in a vision and called to be a prophet in our day.

Thats a brief summary anyway, hope it answers your question.

You raise a lot of interesting and important points, particularly when you said "Todays laws seem to be trying to get rid of religion". I can understand laws changing so that they no longer conform to only one religion as we live in a society which must embrace all religions but i hope that the law will never take away the morals and principles that religion teaches as they are timeless.

25 April 2007 03:21