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bless $_, 'UNIVERSAL' foreach @religions (Score:2, Insightful)
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I have heard this argument before. And, interestingly, it's usually atheists who make it.
Well, it's bogus. I'm sure that from an atheist's point of view, a logical identity relation exists between all religions that have the quality "Num_Gods==1". But that's silly. If anything, an atheist should be more inclined to distinguish between various purported all-being entities, since they're all fictitious!
In any case, it is fallacious to draw an identity
Re:bless $_, 'UNIVERSAL' foreach @religions (Score:1)
The other problem with this attitude is that different cultures have the same view of say 'the sun' and use different words for it. For example God being referred to as Allah or JHVH is a language rather than religious issue.
The characteristics of both God and the sun are also different acc
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Re:bless $_, 'UNIVERSAL' foreach @religions (Score:1)
That boils down to religious belief. But that's not the issue here.
God being referred to as Allah or JHVH is a language rather than religious issue.
Of course; that's also not what's under discussion here.
God and the sun are also different according to your culture and location.
You miss the point.
According to "my" world view, the Earth is flat, and if you sail too far, you'll fall off the edge.
According to "your" world view, the surface of the
Re:bless $_, 'UNIVERSAL' foreach @religions (Score:2, Funny)
In each of those three religions God is revealed through the teachings of a prophet (or prophets).
Moses comes down from the mountain with his tablets of stone and does the whole "The Lord thy God is a jealous bastard, do what he says or get smited, for ye are his cho
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For example if English is your native language then all the scriptures referred to would have to be transposed from one alphabet to another and then translated. The King James Bible - and worse still the Good News Bible are chinese whispers of the original gospels.
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Re:bless $_, 'UNIVERSAL' foreach @religions (Score:1)
That brings to the question of what constitutes a religion. One could argue that the true religion (e.g. "true Christianity", "true Islam", etc.) are inscribed in books, and there they sit, available for anyone to learn and accept. Or, one could argue that a religion is the existing, operative, body of belief in a person, or group of people. Given that the latter is a more practical definition, "you" are in a position to argue of "such petty details" if "you" have a familiarity with these religions as believed and practiced.
Right. That brings us back to the original point of this thread -- What makes one religion "better" than another? My response was that one "works" better than another, depending on cultural context.
each of the authors including the people that Mohammed dictated to were flawed human beings.
And yet, a central tenet of Islam is that the word, as written down, is a perfect rendition of what Allah spoke to Muhammad. Like J. Smith and his magical spectacles, Muhammad was granted a special, temporary, mystical dispensation - the power to remember the exact words of Allah long enough to dictate them to the scribes.
Of course, some Christians have a similar view of the Bible...
At the risk of sounding like a dead drum, I must reiterate that this conclusion is unjustified. It would require that the deity have multiple, incompatible, characteristics. Perhaps we could admit this in a human, but we're talking about perfect, infinite characteristics of a (supposedly) infinite, perfect being.
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Re:bless $_, 'UNIVERSAL' foreach @religions (Score:1)
Whats more the idea of a Jealous and wrathful god is contradictory to a God of mercy and love, yet Islam, Judaism/Zionism and Christianity all s
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Well, from my personal point of view, that isn't a conundrum, but rather, has a very simple answer: No. Of course, it depends on what one thinks God is; but from my point of view, it is not accurate to say that there is nothing God can't do. God himself (in some revelations, at least) says as much. In particular, God can not do anything which is untrue to his nature. God cannot feel temptation. But that's just my opinion.
the same idea that