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I can't believe this thread. "If a million people say a stupid thing, it is still a stupid thing". It still applies to a few billion people saying who created the world. Or actually, saying who they were told created the world. "We see in the world a single person having three names", dattaswami ? Yes, and when they give a personal history and way of thinking to every name that contradict eachother, what do you think about them ? "No Father is partial to a single child". Yeah, right. You should come to Earth more often. Angel of Death: "All religions lead to the same thing=God, only the paths are different. Buddhisim, Taoism, Hinduism, Christianity,Islam-they have completly different rituals, but the essence is the sme" Let me get this straight. God gives completely different rituals, that get the same result ? So I guess he-she-it doesn't care about the rituals, just on the results. Then why not give one religion ? Is he-she-it going around making up several "one and only holy right" religions ? Or humans misunderstood most of the "revelations", that were meant to be all the same ? Quite the poor communicator for the supreme truth incarned. Maybe he-she-it wanted to promote some melting pot between religions ? I would support that, if it wasn't for the "one and only" rule. Unless the god is always the same and people make up all the religions and rules ? Could be. Making up the god would be more fun, still. Or maybe, you know, several groups of people independently created religions based on their individual and/or collective needs-thoughs-philosophies, during widely different historical circumstances ? And some of them look the same because they have some common denominators producted by the society they appeared in ? I'll stick with religions and their gods being similar only if they have a common origin, that being the same starting religion or that humans as a whole are not that much different where it counts even millennia or ten thousand kilometers away. holymagi1: "Christianity is the only system that offers you and me and everybody the notion that you can inherit eternal life and paradise without a merit system or ladder climbing or law abiding whatsoever. " You're right about eternal life, that's for everyone including sinners in hell (big deal). But paradise ? Without merits or laws ? I didn't get the memo, when did they cancel the ten commandments and all the sins ? Which kind of christianity are we talking about, as there are quite some differences between, say, Calvinists or Mormons ?
""For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.""
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