Your Faith, My Faith

Another great message from Have A Little Faith :P

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"Ask yourself, 'why did God create but one man?" the Reb said, wagging a finger. "Why, if he meant for there to be faiths bickering with each other, didn't he create that from the start? He created trees, right? Not one tree, countless trees. Why not the same with man?
"Because we are all from that one man - and all from that one God. That's the message."
Then why, I asked, is the world so fractured?
"Well, you can look at it this way. Would you want the world to all look alike? No. The genius of life is its variety.
"Even in our own faith, we have questions and answers, interpretations, debates. In Christianity, in Catholicism, in other faiths, the same thing - debates, interpretations. That is the beauty. It's like being a musician. If you found the note, and you kept hitting that note all the time, you would go nuts. It's the blending of the different notes that makes the music."
The music of what?
"Of believing in something bigger than yourself."
But what if someone from another faith won't recognize yours? Or wants you dead for it?
"That is not faith. That is hate." He sighed. "And if you ask me, God sits up there and cries when that happens."


Reading this conversation made me recalled what Albert Einstein once said. He was asked whether science could explain everything in this universe. Einstein answered: "Yes, but it is just as boring as explaining Beethoven's symphony with the physic's theory of pressure and so on."

The beauty of life is that the sensation of knowing something greater than us. The mystery of something Supreme. And what makes it even more wonderful is that we have our own ways in explaining and worshiping that Supreme Being. Yet, despite the diversity of beliefs and religions, we come from one God.