Only God is universal
Abraham Joshua Heschel once was asked by NBC's Carl Stern if there was only one true religion. Heschel responded, "If God had wanted us to look alike, He would have given us all the same face." So all religions are not the same; they represent the many different ways that the many different people yearn for God. Only God is universal.
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July 7, 2010; 10:38 AM ET
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Posted by: Sajanas | July 8, 2010 10:37 AM
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At the core all religions have one thing in common. A belief in a whole slew of unnatural phenomenon. Each slew may differ from religion to religion, in some cases even overlap. Discussing these religions and trying to make sense of them is just as fruitful and as stupid as to comparing and contrasting Shakespeare's "Merchant of Venice" against Alexander Dumas's "Count of Monte Cristo".
When discussing the religions, I cannot get past these superstitious beliefs in the organizing documents (scriptures). Be it be the virgin birth and resurrection of Christians, Parting of the Waters and the Joshua being swallowed by a fish of Judaism, The flying horse or talking bones of Islam, or the many a superstitious beliefs of Hinduism, Jainism, & Buddhism from monster heads swallowing the moon & the Sun to the sweat (or the semen) of an ape swallowed by fish giving rise to a fully grown man. Any memes (all religions are indeed memes) that are based on all these silly theses deserve no respect and have really nothing to teach the 21st century humanity. I sincerely wish and hope that they are all relegated to the dust heap as the humanity as done with Alchemistry, Thorism, Zeusism and thousands of such other memes.
Posted by: Secular | July 8, 2010 9:49 AM
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There is increasing evidence that the once prevalent primitive superstitious belief in magic and supernatural beings of any kind is no longer "Universal". In the developed/free world, church attendance continues to diminish and those who list themselves as agnostic or atheist grows year on year.
To those who have studied the history of religion and the invention of all common religions from pre-existing myths and legends, it is clear that "god" was a creation of more primitive human minds that knowledge, education and common sense nearly always make look incredible?
Not one of the major "holy" books makes any kind of rational or historical sense if studied with some knowledge and a truly open mind and each one is largely plagiarised from a previous society's dogma back to the mists of time and the origins of most religions in the Asian continent.
The Torah/Old testament should perhaps be compared with the Egyptian "book of the dead" and the christian fables compared with the dozens of "god-man" myths, including 54 dead and risen previous "gods in human form" (38 of which happened according to other legends, at what is now called “Easter” from the pagan goddess of Spring Eostre, with characters dead on a Friday and resurrected on the following Sunday. Sound familiar?), and over three millennia, a host of Pharaohs, Emperors and assorted dictators were of "virgin birth" and spawn of a "god". Worth also noting that the virgin birth and resurrection stories appear to have only been added to the “Jesus” legend in the 4th century when 600+ competing “gospels” relating to several “messiahs” were drastically cut and edited into the “new testament”.
Nothing original and nothing that modern mankind should take more seriously than other fantasies relating stories of the tooth fairy or Santa, or Odin or Zeus.., or waste time, money and devotion on, let alone kill or die for?
We have the evidence for an entirely magic free and natural origin of our 13+billion year old Universe and 6billion year old Earth. The fossil and genetic record shows the 4+billion year path of life and entirely natural evolution of homo sapiens and other animals. All that must surely put the lie to all those various supernatural “creation” myths?
Nothing has brought so much benefit to mankind as knowledge and the good news of Atheism....?
Posted by: Svenalike | July 8, 2010 5:53 AM
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I don't believe in God. Buddhists (some of them anyways) don't believe in God. Hindu's (some of them) believe in many gods, likewise with Wiccans and most other older religions.
So, how does that fit in your worldview exactly?