Christians and Muslims , plz read the below to find out what Mr.Paul Kurtz said and your commence on that ?

Question

"Christianity borrowed its central myths and ceremonies from other ancient religions. The ancient world was rife with tales of virgin births, miracle-working saviors, tripartite gods, gods taking human form, gods arising from the dead, heavens and hells, and days of judgment. In addition to the myths, many of the ceremonies of ancient religions also match those of that syncretic latecomer, Christianity. To cite but one example (there are many others), consider Mithraism, a Persian religion predating Christianity by centuries. Mithra, the savior of the Mithraic religion and a god who took human form, was born of a virgin; he belonged to the holy trinity and was a link between heaven and Earth; and he ascended into heaven after his death. His followers believed in heaven and hell, looked forward to a day of judgment, and referred to Mithra as "the Light of the World." They also practiced baptism (for purification purposes) and ritual cannibalism—the eating of bread and the drinking of wine to symbolize the eating and drinking of the god’s body and blood. Given all this, Mithra’s birthday should come as no surprise: December 25th; this event was, of course, celebrated by Mithra’s followers at midnight.

Mithraism is but the most striking example of the appearance of these myths and ceremonies prior to the advent of Christianity. They appear—in more scattered form—in many other pre-Christian religions."
Christians and Muslims , plz read the below to find out what Mr.Paul Kurtz said and your commence on that ?
The traditional religions have too often waged wars of intolerance not only against other religions or ideologies that dispute the legitimacy of their divine revelations but even against sects that are mere variants of the same religion (e.g., Catholic versus Protestant, Shiite versus Sunni). Religions claim to speak in the name of God, yet bloodshed, tyranny, and untold horrors have often been justified on behalf of holy creeds. True believers have all too often opposed human progress: the abolition of slavery, the liberation of women, the extension of equal rights to transgendered people and gays, the expansion of democracy and human rights.
Along the same line, believers have never succeeded in demonstrating the existence of the disembodied souls of any of the billions who went before us. All efforts to communicate with such discarnate entities have been fruitless. Sightings of alleged ghosts have not been corroborated by reliable eyewitness testimony.
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Answer 1

All religions are mumbo jumbo. Man rewards good deeds and punishes bad deeds, but nature or life is totally random.

Answer 2

You consider opposition to human progress: the abolition of slavery, the liberation of women, the extension of equal rights to transgendered people and gays, the expansion of democracy and human rights????????????

You are way off..these are signs of civilization and fairness..

The source of the myths you mentioned is understandable if you have read the bible...in genesis, before all cultures were even formed, mankind was promised a savior who would redeem mankind through personal sacrifice for others. As you read further, he would be born of a virgin, and have a divine nature. This "myth" was a promise that was passed down from one generation to another, no matter WHERE they lived, or what culture they eventually formed. Everyone - all desendents of Adam and Noah-knew the story of the promise. Jesus was the fulfillment of the promise, and was the real one. In other cultures, people still living in the promise could only hold onto what they had been told until the gospel reached them. This could be one reason for the rapid spread of the gospel of Christ ..is that it resonnated with the expectations of people everywhere, who dropped the promised "myth" and embraced the actual fulfillment in Jesus Christ.

Answer 3

Mr. Kurtz doesn't seem to be too familiar with Mithraism.

"A central feature of the ceremonial associated with Mithras was the taurobolium, the ritual slaughter of a bull which commemorated and repeated Mithras' primeval act. The initiate was baptized in its blood, partaking of its life-giving properties. It may be noted that this part of the ceremonial closely resembled the ritual of the cult of Cybele, the Great Mother of Asia Minor, which had been brought to Rome three centuries before Christ.."
- Ninian Smart, The Religious Experience of Mankind

Answer 4

All one can do is follow their heart and own beliefs. Cultures create many situations and even set the morals or lack of morals.Personnally, I believe that each of us has a right to their own belief or lack of. The idealist hope is that each of us thinks alike. The world would be a narrow boring place with no differences and look black and white. I like all the color and change around me and to get that diversity, I will have to take all the discension and disagreement. Here it is called freedom. Or democracy.

Answer 5

so, other people have different beliefs? Big deal. I say 'live and let live.' Believe and allow others to believe. Unless members of a particular cult start drinking poisoned Kool Aid or flying planes into buildings in the name of God, I don't care.

Answer 6

There is such a thing as true Christian religion! True Christian religion teaches that Jesus Christ is the King of kings and Lord of lords, the only One and the very Self that has life in Himself.


"All who acknowledge and worship any other God than the Lord the Savior, Jesus Christ, who is Jehovah God Himself in human form, sin against this first commandment. Those also sin against it who persuade themselves of the actual existence of three Divine persons from eternity. For as they confirm themselves in that error, they become more and more natural and corporeal, and at length are unable to comprehend interiorly any Divine truth; and if they listen to it and accept it, they still defile it and cover it up with fallacies. They may therefore be compared to those who dwell in the lowest story or the cellar of a house, and in consequence hear nothing of the conversation of those who are in the second and third stories, because the floor above their heads keeps the sound from penetrating to them. [2] The human mind is like a house of three stories, in the lowest of which are those who have confirmed themselves in favor of three Gods from eternity, while in the second and third stories are those who acknowledge and believe in one God under a visible human form, and that the Lord God the Savior is He" (True Christian Religion n. 296).


Also - THE GOD OF HEAVEN IS THE LORD

First of all it must be known who the God of heaven is, since upon that all the other things depend. Throughout all heaven no other than the Lord alone is
acknowledged as the God of heaven. There it is said, as He Himself taught,

That He is one with the Father; that the Father is in Him, and He in the Father; that he who sees Him sees the Father; and that everything that is holy goes forth from Him (John 10:30, 35; 14:9-11; 16:13-15).

I have often talked with angels on this subject, and they have invariably declared that in heaven they are unable to divide the Divine into three, because they know and perceive that the Divine is One and this One
is in the Lord. They also said that those of the church who come from this world having an idea of three Divine beings cannot be admitted into heaven,
since their thought wanders from one Divine being to another; and it is not allowable there to think three and say one.{1} Because in heaven everyone speaks from his thought, since speech there is the immediate product of the thought, or the thought speaking. Consequently, those in this world who have divided the Divine into three, and have adopted a different idea of each, and have not made that idea one and centered it in the Lord, cannot be received into heaven, because in heaven there is a sharing of all thoughts, and therefore if any one came thinking three and saying one, he would be at once found out and rejected. But let it be known that all those who have not separated what is true from what is good, or faith from love, accept in the other life, when they have been taught, the heavenly idea of the Lord, that He is the God of the universe. It is otherwise with those who have separated faith from life, that is, who have not lived according to the precepts of true faith (Heaven and Hell n.2).

Answer 7

I can say that human being have their own feeling of religious and both religious are not excluding from human senses. Different holy man named different gods but telling the same subject. If you feel here is heaven, here will be heaven. If you feel here is hell, here will be hell.

Answer 8

how can this other guy here say theres no true Christian religion..i beg to differ with that...THERE ARE FAKES LIKE Mormons who lie to ppl...I dont care what others did Before cuz my God has never lied to me and He never will...my beliefs remain the same...you cant kill them

Answer 9

Mr. Paul Kurts has been discredited and proven wrong on several occasions.

Answer 10

10For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.

3In their greed these teachers will exploit you with stories they have made up. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping