Most religious people believe that their religion is the only one that can get them into Heaven. Since people in areas concentrated with certain religions tend to grow up to follow that religion (Mexico and Catholicism, Middle East and Islam for example), how do you justify that God put people in places that you believe they won't follow the "correct" religion?
2007-08-09 07:43:20 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Richard Dawkins argued this? I didn't know that.
2007-08-09 07:50:39 · update #1
There are thousands of religions you could be born into. It is true people don't choose their religion based on reason, or which one is best. Their religion is assigned to them. Who is a christian to say that their religion is correct? Why is their religion more right than islam, or hinduism, or any other religion? There is no reason to think that, they are all attempts to explain the unknown. By the way, their is not much room for god anymore because science has explained so much (evolution, the universe, the human body). This is called the 'god of the gaps', because we are slowly having less and less use for him in explaining natural phenomenon.
Not all religions can be true!!! Most are very different and often mutually exclusive! That is a fallacy to believe that.
2007-08-09 07:51:46 · answer #1 · answered by UC2007 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
God doesn't need to "justify" His reasons to me.
Sounds blunt and non-answer like, but hey, I remember, He is the potter, I am the clay.
As for it being fair that religion is determined by geographic location, the question I'd be asking "if there are so many different religions, why are they so different?" and "what makes them different?"
And then I'd wonder, which one is true, since two opposite points can not both be correct.
Free will means deciding for yourself who God is, not falling back on the excuse "this is what we worship on this side of the mountain," because it has avoided answering the three questions I just asked.
2007-08-09 07:52:09 · answer #2 · answered by Last Stand 2010 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This belief that only certain people of certain religions are going to the spiritual level known as heaven is erroneous. All of God's children are going to the same place. We all don't get there at the same time ,depending on how quickly we comprehend the spiritual truth, but we all get there. Does a good shepherd even lose one of his flock?
2007-08-09 07:57:45 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Have you read the paper? Looked at the news? Studied history? War has determined the location of religion.
2007-08-09 07:54:21 · answer #4 · answered by Steel Rain 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Geographic location is probably the most influencing factor in deciding what religious affiliation you belong to.
2016-05-18 00:03:23 · answer #5 · answered by raquel 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Life is not fair, but God is good.
Believe in God, believe in your faith.
God alone will give you an answer.
2007-08-09 14:56:28 · answer #6 · answered by Sawsan 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Christians are preaching the gospel in all the world. The world is not listening. However, many people are being won to Christ as He touches their hearts.
2007-08-09 07:47:59 · answer #7 · answered by Jeancommunicates 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No, it is not fair that I have to grow up in Christian America. I would much rather have been born in atheist Sweden.
2007-08-09 07:46:25 · answer #8 · answered by The Dog Abides 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
That was Dawkins rebuttal to what if you are wrong
2007-08-09 07:48:17 · answer #9 · answered by John C 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋