Why don't people from the same religion get along just because they're from a different branch?

Question

Example:

Christianity: Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox.

Islam: Shiite, Sunni, Alevi, Sufi.

How about "union in diversity"?

Answer 1

Because everyone of those faiths mentioned believe that THERE religion is the RIGHT religion.  That's the problem, their dogma and texts put in that all other religions are wrong.  How ... conceited can you get?

Pagans on the other hand, we all get along.  I get along just fine with different aspects of my own religion, the branches within it.  I get along with other pagans of completely different trees.  Celtic reconstructionalists?  Kemetic Orthodoxy?  Nova Roma?  Hellenism?  We would all get around and have drinks no problem, while probably eating roast pork and lamb.  Good times :-)

Answer 2

Catholic and Protestant and Orthodox are not different branches of the same religion.

The Orthodox broke off from Rome in 1054 AD because Rome was no longer Christian.

The few real Bible believing Christian Christians were being murdered by the thousands by remaining in the Roman church.  Once the printing press was invented they then had the power to communicate truth to the masses and restore the church back to what God had intended all along.

Please don't confuse the religion of Rome with Bible based Christianity, they are not the same religion.

For more details as to why this is true see the follow message in 9 parts.  Each part is about 5 1/2 to 9 minutes in length.

Part 1:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpWDUt89t...

Part 2:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5RMFu-JH...

Part 3:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WbF-BZxu...

Part 4:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TNNiJP5j...

Part 5:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_hhJdoDE...

Part 6:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbnAk9zMK...

Part 7:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEP8C1sRx...

Part 8:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIbOfo9bg...

Part 9:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ch3ppf3k...

Answer 3

Consider the fact that unity in this world only brings total corruption. You may place several apples from the same tree in a basket but if only one of them is rotten it will rotten all the rest. That is why God is constantly cleaning up His basket just like He began doing in Babylon.

Answer 4

It is "Unity in Diversity" and we have been doing it all along.

Example:

Baha'i; Christian; Hindu; Jain; Muslim; etc.

Welcome, my brother.

The Baha'i Faith, uniting the world, one heart at a time.

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Bahá'ís the world over come from all religions backgrounds: Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Jain, Jewish, Muslim, Sikh, Zoroastrian, animist, and non-religious.

(Baha'i International Community, 1992, Magazine - The Baha'is)

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When asked on one occasion: "What is a Bahá'í?" Abdu'l-Bahá replied: "To be a Bahá'í simply means to love all the world; to love humanity and try to serve it; to work for universal peace and universal brotherhood." On another occasion He defined a Bahá'í as "one endowed with all the perfections of man in activity." In one of His London talks He said that a man may be a Bahá'í even if He has never heard the name of Bahá'u'lláh. He added:  --

The man who lives the life according to the teachings of Bahá'u'lláh is already a Bahá'í. On the other hand, a man may call himself a Bahá'í for fifty years, and if he does not live the life he is not a Bahá'í. An ugly man may call himself handsome, but he deceives no one, and a black man may call himself white, yet he deceives no one, not even himself.

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The Jews await the Messiah, the Christians the return of Christ, the Moslems the Mahdi, the Buddhists the fifth Buddha, the Zoroastrians Shah Bahram, the Hindus the reincarnation of Krishna, and the Atheists - a better social organization! Baha'u'llah represents all these, and thus destroys the rivalries and the enmities of the different religions; reconciles them in their primitive purity, and frees them from the corruption of dogmas and rites.

(Abdu'l-Baha, Tablets of Abdu'l-Baha v1, p. vii)

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There can be no doubt whatever that the peoples of the world, of whatever race or religion, derive their inspiration from one heavenly Source, and are the subjects of one God. The difference between the ordinances under which they abide should be attributed to the varying requirements and exigencies of the age in which they were revealed. All of them, except a few which are the outcome of human perversity, were ordained of God, and are a reflection of His Will and Purpose. Arise and, armed with the power of faith, shatter to pieces the gods of your vain imaginings, the sowers of dissension amongst you. Cleave unto that which draweth you together and uniteth you.

(Baha'u'llah, Gleanings from the Writings of Baha'u'llah, p. 217)

Answer 5

I don't really know about Christianity but for Islam,

There is only one Islam which is the Sunni, Shia people came AFTER the death of the Holy Prophet so i consider them not to be real muslims plus there mosques are different and also their way of prayer, in short their whole religion is changed, they are only considered to be muslims because there is a "sufficient" amount of them on this earth....all the other types Alevi, Sufi, Quadiani are fake, no argument on them.

Answer 6

Although they share almost identical beliefs, it's human nature to create conflictions.