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A restored thread originally started at Reasoned Debate at Excite Communities. Feel free to continue the discussion and add your thoughts.
From: weezer_16 why is there so many different types of beliefs, when all was stated as one. except for a few, it all comes down to believing in one thing and that is god, creater of heaven and earth. even though he has many names. think of what would happen if we all got together, people of all faiths, all nations. maybe we would have a better world. weezer
Posted on: 2003/2/13 22:05
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But what would be the fun in that? Nobody could claim any other person was inferior. Nobody could feel better about himself/herself because they belonged to the "right" religion. Nobody could tell other people how to live based on a "better" set of morals. . . *grin*
I would tend to agree with you, but I should point out that there are many polytheistic religions. Most of them are nature-worship based, but they do stand out from the main Western religions in that they are not fundamentally monotheistic.
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This is a response to a really old thread, but it caught my imagination and the study of religion is something I am fascinated with
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Are you talking about different denominations of the Christian faith or different religions? Because they didn't all start out as one, with a belief that God is creator of heaven and earth. In some cases, it's a Goddess. ;) And sometimes, it's an ungendered All. Human beings are spiritual animals, and they have practiced some sort of religion since the beginning of time. But the variety and number of religions is astounding. From cosmic to acosmic, from earth base religions to religions of the book, they span the world and have a place in every single human culture since the beginning, whichever beginning you subscribe to. Would we be better off with just one faith? I'm not sure. Certainly religious wars have shed a lot of blood, and conflict over religion is rampant. But the diversity of faith, enriches us as well. And who knows? Maybe they are all aspects of "true" religion. ;)
Posted on: 2003/2/21 12:14
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There is a significant and growing portion of atheists in the world who would certainly dispute the notion of monotheism. Sometimes I prefer having so many different religions. If there were only one religion, then the non-believers would more likely be persecuted.
Posted on: 2003/2/25 9:30
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I'd really like to see more discussion not entirely centered on Christianity and the response to that one faith. Is it that no one has any experience outside the Christian-Judaic world? There are certainly more than "a few."
Posted on: 2003/2/25 14:45
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This is very much my view of the world. All major monotheistic (and even some polytheistic) religions have the same basic beliefs: be kind to one another, do not commit harmful acts against another person, put the good of others before your own, and so on. Even many religions that seem polytheistic are really monotheistic when you get right down to it: one god with many faces. If god (by whatever name) is all-powerful, why could this god not recognize that different people in different cultures who speak different languages would have different needs, and would understand a divine message best if tailored to talk directly to those people? People in India needed Vishnu. People in east Asia needed Buddha. Some people i teh middle east needed Yaweh, and then later, Jesus because of their belief that sacrifice was a key to salvation. Others nearby needed a prophet named Mohammed. And thus it goes. Why couldn't a god who is infinite and all-powerful adopt a strategy to speak to each culture individually? It seems to me that strict adherence to one religion over another is intended to limit god, which (if god is infinite) can't be done.
Posted on: 2004/8/10 6:24
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