Well, the One Common Faith Polls have been up for three days now and I want to report on the results, so far…
I’ve learned in my time with this blog that any given post can be visited for months because of the web of connections I have on the Internet. The post that’s remained the most popular, Strong In The Broken Places, was written back on May 9th…
Even though I’m going to give the results of the polls in this post, I’m sure they’ll be visited over the next few months. I’ll be giving updates as time goes on. You didn’t take part in the polls? Oh, my! Here they are…
So…
*The poll about, How would you characterize yourself?, has 32 responses so far. The top three responses are:
#1: Spiritual
#2: is a tie between, Religious and Moral
#3: is a tie between, Agnostic and Atheistic
*The poll with the question, How do you feel about humanity’s future?, has 25 responses and the top three are:
#1: The Kingdom of God will be established on earth
#2: Improvement’s possible with God’s help
#3: is a tie between, Science will save us and We will save ourselves
*The poll about, Where do you feel you’re at, right now?, has 29 responses and the top three are:
#1: Working to establish God’s Kingdom
#2: Climbing a spiritual mountain
#3: Roaming in a spiritual valley
The results are in (for now) and I’m pondering them deeply to open myself up to what the readers of this blog are feeling…
Spiritual Quote:
“You will see how the world is upset with internal conflict, and many lands are dyed in human blood—nay the earth is kneaded with gore. The flame of war is so ablaze that such terrible struggle finds no parallel in the war records of any of the middle or recent ages. Heads have become like grains and the war like mill stones—nay even worse. Flourishing lands are ruined, cities completely wrecked and thriving towns annihilated. Fathers have lost their sons, sons are made fatherless, and mothers have shed tears of blood over the death of their youthful sons. Children are made orphan, women are helpless, and the world of humanity is forced backward in all respects. The wailing cry of fatherless children is raised abroad, and mothers’ pathetic lamentation reaches the high heaven.
“The source of all these catastrophes is racial fanaticism, patriotic fanaticism, religious fanaticism and political fanaticism. The source of these fanaticisms is ancient imitations, religious imitations, racial imitations, patriotic imitations, and political imitations. As long as following such imitations persists, the very foundation of humanity is wrecked and the world of man is in great jeopardy.”
‘Abdu’l-Bahá, Letter to Martha Root
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Excellent poll,great presentation of fabulous writing,much devotion and time spend on this Alex..
The only competition you will ever have is the competion between your disciplined and undisplined mind.!
Catherine,
I hope the evidences of my “undisciplined mind” are few and far between 😉
There is no religion without love,and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to other animals as well as humans, it is all a sham.
Catherine,
This so very true and so misunderstood by most people……