Is it just me, or does heaven sound like a really horrible place?

Neapolitan · 09-20-2009, 09:04 PM

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Originally Posted by boo boo

This is retarded, no really it is.

If there's so many religions that claim to know the truth, then there's no reason to believe any single one of them actually does.

What proof is there that Christians are right and Muslims are not? None, and vice versa. It's all about faith, and in that sense Dali is right, if you believe in Jesus simply through blind faith, then you have no right to criticize other religions for taking the same leap of faith, and when Christians actually try to debunk another religion using "facts" it just makes them look retarded.

Every religion has some incircumstancial evidence that obviously convinces some people that it's the truth. And just because two things contradict each other dosen't automatically mean one side is right and one is wrong, both could easly be right or both could easly be wrong.

In other words, the world isn't black and white.

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.