Opinions Not Faith

When people kill one another over religious issues it is not about differences in faith.  It is about differences in opinions.  Faith is about conversion to a way of life that sees connection, union, and where there are differences of view, practice compassion, understanding and dialogue.  If you are killing someone over your beliefs, it is not faith.  It is opinion which requires no conversion experience.  Opinion is easy.  Conversion is hard work.  Opinion narrows us.  Conversion expands us.  Jesus knew that laws and rules had little to do with conversion, so he did not focus on them.  He did not dismiss them or belittle them.  He kept them rightsized.  If you want to know what a religion teaches, look at what it does, not at what it says.  My religion is very hard to do, which is why I am not so good at it, left to my own power.  The dogma answers are not problematic.  It is the doing that humbles me.