2007-01-08 14:15:54 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yes, exactly!
2007-01-08 14:20:00 · answer #1 · answered by dogpatch USA 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No, not at all.
Take the chip off your shoulder and think about it from an objective point of view.
Reality exists. Reality doesn't really care what we as individuals think of it, it just is. I'm sure that the folks on TITANIC weren’t to keen about the reality that they were drowning and freezing in the North Atlantic, but that's how reality is.
So the questions that Religion answers DO have definite answers. We cannot determine exactly WHAT those answers are, but that does not mean that the answers do not exist and aren't definite. It just means they are not knowable from our present frame of refernce.
Think of it like this. Lets say you were an American Indian in the year 1066. You live in Massachusetts, and when you go down to the beach to collect clams in the morning you look out to the East and wonder about what is on the other side of the ocean. You don't know about William the Conqueror and the Battle of Hastings and all the stuff that is going on in England in the year 1066, and there is no way you CAN know that, but none the less things ARE going on across that ocean. William is busy invading England, fighting Harold Godwinson, taking over the Saxons, etc. at the very moment you are standing there on the beach looking out towards England. Just because some things are not known, or even are not knowable from one frame of reference does not mean that they do not or can not exist.
(The first axiom in Einstein’s Theory of Relativity is that there are NO privileged frames of reference. For example, Pluto was not detectable from our human frame of reference for millions of years. None the less Pluto existed for millions of years despite the fact that no humans knew of it, or even could know of it.)
So "true religion " is NOT an oxymoron. Obviously the questions religion asks, (and answers) have definite answers. Those answers may not be knowable from where we are, but that doesn't change the fact they do exist. The religion that provided the answers that most closely alligned with those facts (even if they aren't knowable) would be a "true religion".
If you want to know WHICH religion, if any, is true, that is a different quesiton; one that you did not ask.
2007-01-08 22:50:03 · answer #2 · answered by Larry R 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The truth is in the eyes of the beholder, while some may argue "true religion" is an oxymoron there are others (most religion institutions) who believe their religion is the true religion so if you were to ask them the answer would be no.....
I believe that true religion is an oxymoron
2007-01-08 22:24:08 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, because there is just one true religion which pure and holy it is the relationship with Jesus Christ that we become born of God, born of the Spirit filled with the Spirit to show forth the righteousness of God.
2007-01-08 22:20:09 · answer #4 · answered by ? 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Jesus Christ is the truth John 14:6, did any other religious figure make and support claims like Jesus?
2007-01-08 22:20:25 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes truth being based on Faith and religion is based on tradition and mans pursuit to change what is true.
2007-01-08 22:20:46 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No, because the believers have a "Preacher"
and not a "Makebeliever"
2007-01-08 22:21:24 · answer #7 · answered by ganja_claus 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, but a positive/certain atheist is.
2007-01-08 22:20:58 · answer #8 · answered by Oksana 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It probably seems so to skeptics.
2007-01-08 22:20:23 · answer #9 · answered by fdm215 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes.
but id like to think of it as just
plain..
moronic.
2007-01-08 22:19:35 · answer #10 · answered by uhohspaghettiohohs 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋