Christians , Muslims .Jews , Atheist & others can we ever live in peace with mutual respect?

Only if they EACH embrace God's will for them, as told in his holy Scriptures,

(and, then they would no longer be of different faiths, as you describe them.)

So... no...

> Babylon the Great actively supported the 1986 International Year of Peace, designated as such by the United Nations organization, the charter of which calls on it “to maintain international peace and security.” During that year, the Catholic pope, the Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury, and 700 other religious leaders, (including professed Christians, Buddhists, Hindus, Muslims, African animists, native Americans (Indians), Jews, Sikhs, Zoroastrians, Shintoists, and Jains), met together at Assisi, near Rome, to pray in behalf of peace.

>More recently, in January 1989, the Sydney, Australia, Sunday Telegraph wrote that members of “the Buddhist faith, Christian, Hindu, Jewish, Muslim, Sikh, Unitarian, Baha’i, Confucian, Jain, Shinto, Tao, Raja Yoga and Zoroastrian” had met in Melbourne for the fifth assembly of the World Conference on Religion and Peace. Significantly, "More than 600 delegates from some 85 countries . . . acknowledged that tensions are caused by religious differences [which have been pointed to as contributors to war]."

> Religious involvement in the search for peace confirms what Dag Hammarskjöld

, former secretary-general of the United Nations, once said: “The [UN] Organization and the churches stand side by side as participants in the efforts of all men of good will, irrespective of their creed or form of worship, to establish peace on earth.”

> Notwithstanding, Babylon the Great’s protest marches, her public demonstrations, and her other more subtle forms of religious meddling in political affairs will lead to her undoing. Already it has caused considerable friction, as Albert Nolan, a Dominican friar from South Africa, recently admitted, saying: “The only effective way to achieve peace in accordance with God’s will is to get into the fight. . . . To achieve armament reduction, conflicts with the government are almost unavoidable.”

> Let Babylon the Great continue to cry for peace. Let the pope continue to offer his traditional Urbi et orbi (to the city [Rome] and the world) blessing at Christmas and Easter. Let him continue to suppose—as he did last May—that the present easing of political tensions is God’s answer to “Christian” prayers. **Mouthing words of peace and arrogating to herself God’s blessing cannot absolve Babylon the Great from her bloody past. It brands her as being the greatest hindrance to peace between humans, as well as between humans and God, that has ever existed. Directly or indirectly, mankind’s every problem can be traced to her door!**

> Ironicly, false religion continues to strive --in conjunction with the UN-- to bring about the very “peace and security” that will precipitate her destruction! False religion’s end will vindicate the God of true religion, who says: “Do not be misled: God is not one to be mocked. For whatever a man is sowing, this he will also reap.”—Galatians 6:7.

Source:

"Religion’s Future in View of Its Past"

Part 23—1945 onward

"The Time for Settling Accounts Is Near"

(about 1989's World Conference on Religion and Peace)

"AWAKE!" magazine: 1989 Dec 8, pages 25 & 27

"Identifying Babylon the Great"

http://watchtower.org/e/bh/appendix_12.htm

> “We have failed to overcome the divisions among the churches and have often misused the authority and power given to us to strengthen limited and false solidarities like racism, sexism and nationalism.” (43)

> “We have caused wars and have failed to use all opportunities of working towards reconciliation and mediation; we have condoned and often too easily justified wars.” (43)

> “Schisms and religious strife have had a great impact on European history. Many wars have been religious wars. Millions of men and women have been tortured and killed for their beliefs.” (48)

> “Churches and Christians have failed in many respects and have not always lived up to the standards of God’s calling sometimes even failing to proclaim the truth of Jesus Christ . . . For too long we have been blind to the implications and demands of the Gospel in respect to justice, peace and the integrity of creation.” (42)

> “The impasses in which we find ourselves ultimately have their roots in the fact that God’s ways have been abandoned.” (41)

> “The international framework of the United Nations should be made more effective. They have proven that they can be helpful in solving regional conflicts, in assisting the development efforts of many countries, in dealing with environmental problems. Therefore, there is a need for the governments of the world to increase their support of the United Nations and to translate this support into tangible form.” (83)

Source:

REPRESENTING all of Europe’s professed Christian churches, 638 delegates met last May [1989] in Basel, Switzerland, for the European Ecumenical Assembly “Peace With Justice.” **They adopted, by a vote of 94.5 percent, a final document that can therefore be viewed as a consensus document of European Christendom.** ... >>(The numbers in parentheses refer to document sections.)<<

(Excerpts from the "AWAKE!" magazine, 1990 Mar 22, pages 19 &20)

Also, to quote a former U.S. government aide:

"Politics cannot begin to put the connecting tissue back in society. It is ill-equipped to reconstruct traditional moral beliefs. The best policies cannot recover courtship or marriage, make fathers responsible for their children, restore shock or shame where it once existed . . . The vast majority of moral problems that trouble us cannot be eradicated by law."

Source:

"Can WE Create a Better World?"

- Can You Make the World a Better Place?

- The REAL Key to a Happy World

http://watchtower.org/e/20011015/article_01.htm

In other words, at least some of their authority figures --both religious & political-- have *officially acknowledged* that their endeavors to bring peace through man-made efforts are actually *hopeless*, but, they continue to forge ahead without changing their course at all . . .

"...For GOD PUT IT INTO THEIR HEARTS to carry out his thought, even to carry out their one thought by giving their kingdom to the wild beast, until the words of God will have been accomplished..." --Revelation 17:12-16

Even though it has been acknowledged by their own, that their efforts are doomed, they continue on . . .

"False Religion's Is End is Near"

http://watchtower.org/e/kn37/article_01.htm

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only if we can learn tolerance. india thrived for thousands of years under a system of tolerance in which the many disparate beliefs of what we now call hinduism coexisted and build a great civilization. now we have a large segment of one religion, and most of another who arrogantly denounce the views of all other people on earth. as long as islam and fundamentalist christianity remain intolerant, there's no hope.

war is not mankind's natural state. we are primates like all the others who seem to get along without acts of genocide. that's a separate issue from religion, tho.

Just because one group have different views from another it doesn't mean there can't be peace and respect. It is only the stupid individuals in those groups that want there to be division. So yes people can and do generally get along with others even when their views are different.

To have "mutual respect", means that the groups would have to find the other groups' practices and customs has having equal value to their practices and customs.

I can't see that ever happening. Since there is continuous conflict even between sects of "Christians, Muslims, Jews, and even Atheists", how will those who are outside of those groups ever be valued?

Judaism holds the fairly radical idea that society can be made perfect. And this world, not some happy ever afterlife. That's what the Jewish Messiah is all about, a person who can help us get our acts together and make it happen.

So, yes. At least according to Judaism.

i am willing to accept and respect others and thier religions (or lack of). it is morally wrong to walk into someone's building and spit on thier table; that does not change if the building is a church and the table is an altar.

however, even if others aren't willing to accept and respect my religion, God said to love everyone; in 1 Corinthians, chapter 13, it says that love is the most important thing, and exactly what love is. i have made it my goal to live by that passage, regardless if others do, too. if you dont respect me and my religion, fine. i will still respect you and yours.

I try, but then there are these gun crazy goons all over the place. It's hard to have an impact on people you don't spend time with (or want to spend time with... someone who has a gun at home should back the f*ck away from me)

I can. And I'm sure if the ones who want to live in peace made a bubble only for us, we could live happily ever after.

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I wana live in that bubble.

They haven't for 6,000 years, so the burden of proof is on those who answered 'yes'. In fact, there is no proof that any of those groups have lived peaceably among themselves for any length of time.

I'd like to hope so :) it'd be nice. but then again i don't think we'll ever live without war :/

It's a nice thought though.

xx

It's impossible. In deception, no peace can be achieved. Thus, religion must be eradicated first.