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Does religious truth matter while considering the temporal implications of religious teachings around the world?

In Saudi Arabia, some students are being taught that Jews are pigs and that non-Muslims should be killed.  They are teaching that there is a god up there by the name of Allah who wants Muslims to kill all non-Muslims.

Would it not be better to teach them the religious truth that God wants them to love their neighbor?

The Saudis might be teaching that Jews are pigs, but in America by means of a one-sided biology curriculum, schools teach kids that there is no difference between any human being and a pig.

After all according to the curriculum, we are merely a product of blind naturalistic forces – if no deity created us with any special significance – then we are nothing more than pigs with big brains.

Does this religious truth matter? It does when kids carry out the implications. Instead of creating good citizens made in the image of God, we are producing criminals who see no meaning or value in human life.

On the positive side, Mother Teresa helped improve conditions in India by challenging the religious beliefs of the Hindu culture.

The Hindu belief in karma and reincarnation leads many Hindus to ignore the cries of the suffering. Why? Because they believe that those who suffer deserve their punishment for doing something wrong in a previous life. So, if you help suffering people, you are interfering with their karma.

Mother Theresa taught Hindus in India the Christian principles of caring for the suffering and poor.

Does this religious idea matter? Ask the millions of people whose lives she touched.

Does the religious teaching of karma matter? Ask the millions of people still suffering.

The bottom point is this: regardless of what the real truth is concerning morality and religion, our lives are greatly affected by it today and even in eternity.

Those who do not care about truth are ignoring reality and are blindly skating on thin ice.

We must take the initiative to find the real truth, and then act on it.

We will be starting a new unit and our journey to proving the existence of our heavenly Father.