That people who practice Egiptology and live by their customs, worshiping about 99 different gods/ goddesses, share the same teachings without conflict. Even in different study groups of it, they all say the same thing but in monotheistic religions where they have 1 GOD, there are about 99 different sect within them all?
2007-06-20 06:52:11 · 4 answers · asked by Jahfrog 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Religion is a tool of the devil desguised as god used to keep us separated like he did at the tower of Babel, religion has taken its place.
2007-06-20 06:58:14 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
the problem with religion is how it is interpreted by man. multi theistic religions coexist reasonably peacefully because while you have several deities to pick from, everyone recognizes this, and accepts the teachings of all deities. take greek mythos for instance, you might worship mercury the messenger god, while i might worship aries the war god. while we worship different deities, we dont fight over religion for the most part because we really have only one religion, greek mythos, and we still have one supreme deity, zeus, son of kronos.
the reason christians have many different denominations is because man doesnt take something like the bible, and use the entire book as a basis for their religion, they use parts of it. for example, jehova's witnesses dont allow blood transfusions because of one passage regarding eating the blood of animals. they dont read the passages before and after as being part of a whole(like remembering to put gas in the car when the gauges tell you to, but leaving out the needed oil). even non-denominational religions do this. until 66 a.d. christians and jews were two side of the same coin. after that time, due to a religious civil war, the two spilt.
fanaticism also plays a part. at one time christians and jews were a protected minority in the islamic world, because we all worshiped the same god just in different ways. just before the ottoman empire fell during WWl, a fatah was issued by a radical cleric that was interpreted as starting a jihad against christians and jews, though it was supposed to be against the allies since the ottomans(modern day turkey, iraq, palastine, syria, jordan, and others by the way) allied themselves with germany against britain.
the problem with monotheism is man's arrogance, and unwillingness to see the point of view of another. also remember that religion is man made, where as faith is not.
2007-06-20 07:26:29 · answer #2 · answered by richard b 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I guess Judaism didn't learn from the Ancient Egyptians as well as they should have. You'd think that living with them for 400 years would teach them a few things, but instead, they took only the pieces they wanted and ignored the rest.
2007-06-20 06:58:22 · answer #3 · answered by S K 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
i don't know.
my head hurts from earlier questions, i can't think anymore....
2007-06-20 06:57:07 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋