Wouldnt this be a good idea to help slowly but surely weed out false religions?

Question

Someone asked a question something like will all the religions ever agree? Or something like that. I answered:

Question is better phrased what can Mankind do to agree on God?


Answer: The different religions would each need to send 1-3 of thier strongest people in the faith;and then once you got a couple people from each faith or major faith then they would need to compare their beliefs and come to an agreement that 1 of them is correct and the others are false.

Good Idea?Or no?Why or why not?And do you think this could actually happen?Or is it just a pipe dream?

Answer 1

Why limit yourself to people who have faith that a god exists? The strongest arguments would come from the atheists. However, you'll never get the others to agree on anything. Even if you did, they wouldn't be followed by the rest of the people who would just spawn off their own religious sects.

Answer 2

Here's an idea, just pick a religion at random, or make one up, doesn't really matter. How about the Flying Spaghetti Monster? Then announce that it is the One True Religion, all other religions are heresies, and launch an Inquisition. All who refuse to accept the Flying Spaghetti Monster as the One True God will be killed. Slowly.

Will this cause the Flying Spaghetti Monster to actually exist? Of course not, what a silly idea. Will it cause all mankind to be united under a single religion, no matter how absurd? Yes, because everyone else will be dead.

Just look at how well it worked for Christianity.

Answer 3

No, don't think it could happen. This is because in religion the spiritual world and its nature comes into the forefront. Being that any answer or interpretation of it cannot be proven, it will always be a point of contention. Also, the view of Jesus. Was he God or not? How can it be proven either way? Did Mohammed actually receive spiritual information to spark the Islam faith? If you read his history
it's not difficult to understand that he couldn't have made all that up by himself.

People will stick to their beliefs no matter what the parameters of your symposium sets down.

I'm a basic Christian and no, I do not believe Jesus was God. It's a belief which I have no proof of, but no one can convince me otherwise. So you see how human nature works?

Answer 4

why should organized religions get to decide what I believe for me? I don't want anyone telling me what to think or believe or worship. I don't want anyone telling you that either.

There will never be an agreement on that subject, especially as long as 1) there are "ours is the only way" religions out there.
2) there are free-thinkers who wouldn't allow any of you to dictate what or who we worship or what we WON'T worship either.

The original question assumes an authority than no one can claim. There is no such thing as a false religion. It assumes there is a true religion, and no one has a right to that claim. You can BELIEVE that, but that does not give you a right to it.

Pipe dream= Wishful thinking for those who would weed out all who are not like them?

Answer 5

That doesn't really make sense. You used the word "faith" a few times. To have "faith" in a particular religion would mean that you believe it to be true. Religion is based on belief, not fact.

You can't just get a group together to decide what's true when there are no facts to back it up. Basically what you would be doing is making up a new religion.

Answer 6

It sounds great but we should make sure that they are all armed, lock them in a room, and tell them that either they come to an agreement and all come out together or that the door will only open for the last man standing.
We would either get some sort of agreement or at least have a few less nut jobs in the world.

Answer 7

I've got a better idea. Have each faith pick their best candidate - someone strong in faith and high ranked in their religion. Threaten to kill the person unless their god intervenes. If he/she/it/they doesn't/don't, kill the person. Then everyone will realize that there is no god and go back to living their lives.

Your idea wouldn't work - everyone is too convinced that they are right and everyone else is wrong, and since NOBODY has any proof, they would just argue for eternity - like they've been doing for thousands of years.

Answer 8

No, it will not happen. Would YOU admit that your religion is false? Do you think that someone like Billy Graham would, under ANY circumstances?

When science has already disproven a good portion of the bible, and you still won't admit it's false, what makes you think anyone else would?

Sorry, it just won't happen. What we need is education, worldwide. That's the only thing that will bring peace between religions.

And that peace will be achieved when everyone admits... that ALL of them are false.

Answer 9

The interesting thing about this question is that it ignores the fact that there are many different groups within the majgor sects that disagree with each other greatly. Start by consolidating protestants (getting the branch dividians to agree with the german baptists with the latter day saints- that ought to be interesting), then protestant and catholic, and then orthodox and roman catholic churches. That would be a major feat in itself. Then move on to islamic groups and so on and so on.

Answer 10

I really don't think that is ever going to happen. Everyone is different. Their perceptions, idea's, opinions.... so one thing would not realisticaly be true for everyone. That and its hard to find truth when who knows how many times its been re-written, lost, lost in translation, misinterpretated, changed to suit who ever. Everyone should look for their own truth. There are so many different scenario's where any real answer I could say could be wrong or even bad. If you say something like everyone shouldn't bash someone elses beleifs... well thats not possible, cause even in your head you will lol. If you say someone should not kill someone for their beliefs.. well you could set yourself up for another hitler and not be able to stop him cause your law permits him to be killed. So... I think people should deal with the fact that all beleifs are different, all people are different, and someone is bound to beleive something different from you.