Yagna - U did the right thing, did not react, gave yourself time. ‘Other’ relegions don’t become funny by someone trying to make fun of them, all ( or rather most ) priests ( so called ! ) are not men of God. The real preiests ! men of God are identified by their actions not their speeches !!
aditya

This is a powerful story. Sometimes people forget that God sends his messages in many ways. And many people are so bent on their own beliefs that they forget the world is changing, new prophets will come, and God is always sending us messages through anything and everything. Some of my close friends and i were discussing the very issue today.. How some religions are “written in stone,” and how one can not apply it sufficiently, or rather one doesn’t find understanding in it, so instead they abandon it. Personally, i believe that religion is a very personal thing, because its your individual way to find God inside of you. Whether it means you going to a temple, church or mosque or where ever. Its personal. But the way some religions are based today, they tend to be indoctrinating, and in some cases the people who lead via their own interpretations, can cause people doubt the original religion.. And inevitably cause others to lose faith in it.. Which is really sad. Allow me to share a story..
I’m a hindu, but i always love to learn and explore other religions. I often go to this one church, because i just love it.. The atmosphere, the sense of God and a particular priest. One evening, a different priest was doing the mass, and he was a man convincing people to be true to Jesus. He went to extent of saying that Jesus is only way, not other ways like going to mountain and saying “Aum..” and he started laughing and mocking other religions. I found this to be extremely disrespectful, and i was honestly raging mad. Because in that statement he basically said that its perfectly fine to mock other religions and disrespect others. I seriously did not want to go back there. But i sat myself down and thought about it. I love that church. Just going there, and sitting there, gives me so much peace inside. And i love Jesus and his teachings, and i think that it would be rather silly of me to give up something so important to me because of one man’s interpretation and speech. When i did go back, the other priest told us, to love thy neighbour, regardless of who they are or what they believe. And that is the true way to heaven. It was in that moment, i thanked God i didn’t give up on going back there.

Thank you for being.
Yajna

After we realize that things are wrong, we should do everything in our power to change then, for the sake of the world. We need to make everything new.

Revelation 21:
5He who was seated on the throne said, “I am making everything new!” Then he said, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.”

Perhaps not. Perhaps it is even dangerous. On the other hand, I think that one could try to be brave a bit more often and dare to preliminarily assume that a certain tradition has got a certain meaning, well aware that one may be wrong and thus with the mindset of being prepared to rethink at any time.

In that way it is possible, in my experience, to gradually unfold the mysteries within the many ancient and beautiful traditions that quite often seem totally obsolete at a first glance.

Explore and question all. Think for yourself.