2006-10-22 02:47:14 · 13 answers · asked by gasp 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No. What gives a religion credibility is the attitudes and actions of that religion's followers.
2006-10-22 03:01:51 · answer #1 · answered by Witchy 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Age, Number of followers and agressive publicity do not give credibility to a religion really... it is the depth of the philosophy which matters
However, Age may also be due to deep philosophy...if a religion has been around for thousands of years...there must be great truths, which survived the jaws of tyranny of time
2006-10-22 03:15:19 · answer #2 · answered by ۞Aum۞ 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
you mean the longer it has been around .. the more Chinese whispers have been said and things messed up a little makes for better religion ?
not necessarily
i am spiritualist and it is a fairly new religion by any standards but it works with science and has fact based beliefs
this doesn't make it the best religion for all .. but it does give it some good credibility
2006-10-22 02:50:13 · answer #3 · answered by Peace 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It is how well that religion supports its faith: the amount of evidence it has to support that what it believes in is true. So it is age in a way that gives a belief more credibility. Older belief-more evidence to support it.
2006-10-22 02:51:31 · answer #4 · answered by eriscool 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. Neither does popularity, nor political connections. When you presume to instruct people on the plans and desires of an invisible omnipotent being, you've tossed the very concept of credibility out the window right from the git-go.
2006-10-22 02:49:31 · answer #5 · answered by ? 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I think age gives more credibility to all of life. We think not just of ourselves, but everything around us.
2006-10-22 02:57:20 · answer #6 · answered by Shossi 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yet we merely don't have the TIME for that: it is going to take me weeks and thousands of pages to respond to your question. i will refer you to 3 materials, in spite of the undeniable fact that: a million. The Case for God - Peter S Williams 2. The Case for Christ - Lee Strobel 3. technology and Evolution - Charles Colson & Nancy Pearcy 4. till the solar Dies - Robert Jastrow 5. Theism, Atheism, and enormous Bang Cosmology - William Lane Craig and Quentin Smith. 6 Darwin's Black field : The Biochemical project to Evolution - Michel J. Behe. 7. Evolution: A concept in disaster - Michael Denton there are a number of greater, yet i think of those could do for now. you have got here upon flaws interior the Bible? There are defects and /or faults? How interesting!! i do no longer think it grew to become into discrepancies, you had to assert?
2016-11-24 22:29:16 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i can say gives a mould and stinks due to no progress going forward serves as mental distortian of reality look all the wars thru thousands of years we must be the most backwards planet in universe how long will takes to wake up and smell the cofee including pollution all around beside that we don't have enuf of the planet we want to pollut mars and jupiter as well and our citizens getting killed for the glory of the country and homless still sleeps in the carboard box
2006-10-22 02:54:47 · answer #8 · answered by george p 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think it's natural for humans to respect institutions that have been around for centuries more than something that appears on the radar last year, and hasn't stood the test of time.
So to that extent, and in just that way, yes.
2006-10-22 02:52:09 · answer #9 · answered by martino 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Age gives EVERYTHING more credibility. And remember, old age and treachery will ALWAYS overcome youth and skill.
2006-10-22 02:51:05 · answer #10 · answered by Johnny P 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋