"If religion is only human, and its form is man's form, it follows that everything in religion is true." Alain Emil-Auguste Chartier.
2006-07-15 17:14:32 · 22 answers · asked by genaddt 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Well chosen quote. If religion is human and God relfects us then everything has to be true as we know it. We can only know God through ourselves, through our own experiences. I still am not sure if God created man or if man created God. Every civilization has worshipped some form of deity. We need a higher being to validate our own lives. What most of us don't realize is that a form of a higher being is inside all of us.
2006-07-16 13:11:38 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
I think Alain Emil-Auguste Chartier had his sphincter muscle stretched to tightly over his ears.
2006-07-16 00:19:47 · answer #2 · answered by iknowtruthismine 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It sounds like a bunch of sophistry to me that doesn't take into account the law of non-contradiction that tells us that two contradictory statements cannot both be true.
Jesus said that He is the way the truth and the life and that no one could come to the Father apart from Him. Either that's true or as some believe there are many paths to Heaven. Personally I trust Jesus since He came from Heaven and loved me enough to die on a cross to pay my sin debt.
2006-07-16 00:27:51 · answer #3 · answered by Martin S 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One may be able interpret this as such.
"If 'law' is only human, and its form is man's form, it follows that everything in law is true."
I have to think that the writer is disputing a higher power and that 'religion' is created by man in man's form.
2006-07-16 00:26:16 · answer #4 · answered by ed 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The conclusion is false. If religeon is man made, then it is only a figmanet of man's imagination and can not be true.
Universal truth is found only in God's word.
2006-07-16 00:35:05 · answer #5 · answered by Marty 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
False; religion is man's folly. Men it started out as a source of control of the masses and humans onced forced into religion's bondage have evolved into beleiving their own hype of life after death as they see it even though no one has exscaped death to tell of it.
2006-07-16 00:20:52 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'll stick with my living a Christian life and not worry about matters of religion. Today, religion has fallen away from the word of God. They have diluted it to suite their own lifestyles. I'll stick with my studying the bible daily.
2006-07-16 00:22:39 · answer #7 · answered by Carol M 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
True to form,perhaps.Man's form.I suppose that's true in a way.People believe in what comforts them,or makes them feel whatever emotion appeals to them the most.Some people feel guilty because of their religion,and they thrive on that.Others feel superior,and they thrive on that.So if you add "to form" to that quote,I find it quite accurate.
2006-07-16 00:24:35 · answer #8 · answered by kimberli 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
every religion preaches only good things but its how v follow it.
so as per todays beliefs the quote is not true
2006-07-16 00:22:03 · answer #9 · answered by jenni 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In reference to Christianity its true, I doubt that was the spirit of the quote but still.
2006-07-16 00:17:54 · answer #10 · answered by gilligan346 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋