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Originally Posted by Neapolitan
IF a theist says there is a God
and athiest says there is not God
when you examine both satements both can not be true and both can not be false. One has to be true and the other false.
So it can not come down to the act of believing, or particiapating in a religion,
what is the most important, it is is the statement True, does the statement contain Truth. Not that the person a tremedous amount of faith in their religion, so they can believe in anything, true or not.
Saying the "amount of faith in their religion" is the most important or the common denominator is the wrong way of looking at spirituality or the search for Truth. Say you saw a friend studying and you asked him what was he doing he say he;s studying History, you said that is nice, then he says well I have a big Math Test tomorrow and I am cramming. Wouldn't you be a little confussed,so you asked him "why are you studying History instead of Math?" he said "As long as I am study, that is all that matters."
Just having a belief, just having a faith, just having a religion is more important then believing in what is true or what is Truth, that is the same as study anything for the sake of studying. We live in a time of religious Relativism, and that confusses more people then anything else, and it stops philosophical discussions about religion. Religious Relativism is the same a s religious tolerance, being tolerant of another persons religion. Having a belief, having a faith, having a religion should be respected, it's part of being human.
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You couldn't be more wrong. There is NO way to find the real truth. For every religion, it's just faith and nothing else. That means no religion has more validity than another, not one.
Most of what you said has nothing to do with what I was talking about.
Christianity and Islalm may have different ideals of god and the afterlife, but they would be both wrong if there is no god or afterlife.