There are literally hundreds of different religious sects on this planet. Check your local phone book under churches for evidence. Can only one of them be right? Every other faith is wrong and going to haides?
We are still in the dark ages as a species. We believe in nations, fear controls us, violence persists and war is constant. Ignorance dominates knowledge throughout large parts of the world. The mid-east is loaded with ignorance / religion
The human race is in toddler mode - scared of monsters under the bed, wetting our pants after a goblin story, believing in Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy. We need to grow up and get away from goblins, witches, angels, demons, gods and devils.
Knowledge is the path to truth. Don't read and depend on old books written by scared little men with political agendas back before they had indoor plumbing. Those books/religions require the truth be disregarded. The Bible, Koran, Book of Mormon etc. are all loaded with contradictions
2006-07-16
13:04:35
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Is the Bible, Koran - testable, repeatable. Not even close - how can this fiction based fantasy control your lives. Get with the program - get an education - set yourself free.
Think - the virgin mary - not repeatable under a controlled environment - therefor it did not happen.
Noah's ark - give me a break
Living several hundred years - not a chance
6,000 years since creation - not a chance - look at the fossil record - check the sedimentation levels - ice age records.
Knowledge will set the Human Race free.
Time to start looking in the non-fiction part of the library.
2006-07-16
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You wrote "We are still in the dark ages as a species. We believe in nations, fear controls us, violence persists and war is constant. Ignorance dominates knowledge throughout large parts of the world. The mid-east is loaded with ignorance / religion. The human race is in toddler mode - scared of monsters under the bed, wetting our pants after a goblin story, believing in Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy. We need to grow up ..."
Personally I think we'll be blown up before we've grown up, but I applaud your sentiments. I totally agree.
2006-07-16 13:09:02
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answered by Sweetchild Danielle 7
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You can read them but the trick is to not take them so seriously. Most of them are allegorical and not meant to be taken as the absolute thruth and fact. If the bible were written as fact and truth by itself then why do preachers ahve to take a line from this part a paragraph from that and then another just to try to make a point. All religions rely on ancient myth and folklore and they all said pretty much the same things in one way or the other originally it's the organization or the churches that changed it and are still changing it to suit there own agendas. I say phooey to it all. If there is a god fine, if not fine but man doesn't know what it is or what it wants. It is just a way to explain the unexplainable to the unseeing by the uncaring control freaks of the churches.
2006-07-16 13:16:50
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answered by Anonymous
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Religion is man-made, and dangerously so when man became God turning Pantheism into Monotheism, the parables and the words of enlightened beings perverted by heretics for purposes of acquiring false pervasive power over others, may be for what was believed to be the greater good but who knows? The laws of karma (universal law) some say? Comes into balance to correct the injustices? Ever wonder why scientists have yet to conclusively objectify this material purgatory paradigm of which we all reside? Well the answer is because God has neither beginning nor no end. People are not fully aware of the beasts that manipulate and feed from them, their nature is more akin to the ant mimicking spider, and we find this kind of mimicry amongst every dangerous lethal species. All nations and cultures are founded on the pursuit of wealth and ideologically driven treacherous conquest, also it can be said an act of self-preservation in the pursuit of surreptitiously acquiring false pervasive power over others. The main culprits are often sycophants and psychopaths who have in the past even killed their own relatives in its pursuit. Two of the 4 Veda's, dated 1500 BCE translated from Sanskrit to Tamil by Ramana Maharshi “Tat Tvam Asi” in English is “That Thou Art”, and Prajnanam Brahma (Consciousness is Brahman) Over 1500 years later Jesus say's, “I and My Farther are One”. Also Luke 17-21 The kingdom of God within you.
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answered by Anonymous
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Well said that man. Any idea or belief that is supported by neither reasoned argument nor objective evidence is unjustified. All religions come into this category, and doubtless always will. The alternative is faith, which is another word for wishful thinking, and that is worthless as a route to truth, for the obvious reason that without reason or evidence we cannot distinguish between fact and fiction.
2006-07-16 13:22:24
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answered by Anonymous
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To answer your question... Not yet. Many are gripped by fears and their conditioned beliefs.
To aid you in your "enlightenment"... go read David Barrett's book "The World Christian Encyclopedia". He is a Christian who has spent the last 40 years traveling the globe studying religion. Some interesting findings:
- There are over 10,000 counted and verified religions worshipped on the planet. TEN THOUSAND.
- 150 of these religions have at least 1,000,000 followers.
- Christianity itself has at least 33,830 specific denominations. ALMOST 34,000 "versions" of the truth.
Your point is well-taken - "Can only one of them be right?"
I've listed a couple of links for you to study. This may be of some help to you. The study in the second link can be applied to religious adherents. The third link is to a site I find to be particularly "illuminating".
I wish you Peace.
2006-07-16 13:17:48
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answered by Anonymous
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No.
Mankind is not ready for the Truth.
Those (very) few who know the Truth will testify:
The TRUTH has set me free!!
Now, Little One, take a valium, eat some chocolate, go and curl up with a good book...I recommend one of the Harry Potter books, they don't require much thinking...and take a nap.
You'll feel better.
2006-07-16 13:13:23
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answered by Anonymous
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I agree 100% with you we need to learn other thing other then demons, gods, among other things.
I hear Christians saying that they will be saved because they worship god.
Honestly, if their is a God, he would want us to just live life and not make up crap about Goblins and the tooth fairy.
2006-07-16 13:10:53
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answered by Anonymous
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I dissagree with the toddler analogy. We are more like pre-teens: still sure about everything mommy and daddy told us because we haven't looked into it ourselves yet. We've only been an industrialized world for around 200 years. We had millions of years of 'toddler-hood' behind us.
2006-07-16 13:10:30
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answered by Anonymous
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Can you please test, repeat, and observe all your statments before your post your 'truth.'
your statments don't even meet the requirements for truth... thus your opinion.
"The human race is toddler mode..." How did you test and repeat this?
"Knowledge is the path to truth." That's pretty bold. Once again, it won't withstand your own test for truth.
2006-07-16 13:12:24
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answered by more than a hat rack 4
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Of course not, if they were we wouldn't be having this discusssion.
I really wish it were the other way around though. Second dark ages here we come!
2006-07-16 13:12:21
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answered by ChooseRealityPLEASE 6
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