Religion in America

Dear Religion and Non-Religion Guy,

We visited a christian church on sunday, which was really different to our churches. It was more like a conference center, where families and friends meet each other, than a traditional church. They tried to achieve the people with giving the feeling of community. They request people to work together, and help poorer people. They give a lot of examples where people done good things, and how the faith change their life positively. With telling such real stories, and showing e.g videos from former common activities, they want to reach the emotion of the people.

In the mosque it was very interesting for me because I never visited such facility before. It is obvious that some prejudice against muslimes raise out of unknowledge. As well from the believers as from the non-muslimes. The believe in the Islam should guide the believer through their life and take them to the right way straight to heaven. The believers think that only the right behavior during the whole life can save from hell. For me it is difficult to understand how peoples life can only involve about religion, and in the Islam the whole daily life turns around the guidelines that are written in the koran.

Both religions wanted the people to do good things for other humans, and with these deeds get something good back from "god". Furthermore both religions wants to make clear that true faith must come from the heart. Believers shouldn't handle because of someones will, they should act because they want to, and trust in god. However I think it is hard to combine both religion communities. From the past till now their were problems with unite different religions and although they have the same or similar background and appeal, it isn't easy to bring them together. Though the acceptance of the mosque and the big resonance from the Crossroad Church shows that religions gets more and more unite, but like other historical topics the development needs time at all.