There is no difference between the different Gods of the world. They represent one thing, and this the divine, and would therefore be a collective.
Yes, they do apply different characteristics to that divine entity, but do you agree that they all represent the divine and shouldn't be looked upon so differently?
2007-09-28 08:56:28 · 34 answers · asked by iColorz 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Aleister Crowley wrote that all Gods, spirits, demons, etc. were different aspects of the universal mind that one could tap into; that is, every human brain has the blueprint for emphasizing those various aspects of experience to the point of divinity.
This is the most plausible explanation for divinity that I have thus far heard.
2007-09-28 11:38:30 · answer #1 · answered by Jack B, goodbye, Yahoo! 6 · 6⤊ 0⤋
On one level I agree that all of the Gods should be looked on with respect even if you do not worship that particular God or Goddess.
However, as a hard polytheist, I cannot agree that they are all aspects of a singular Divine Presence. A collective "council" of all the Gods is something that I can agree with but I do not and will not agree that Freya and Ishtar (for example) are the same being.
2007-09-28 09:02:38 · answer #2 · answered by Anne Hatzakis 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No. The Hebrew God was radically different from the surrounding cultures' ideas of the gods. The Hebrew, Christian, Muslim, and Rastafarian ideas of God are very similar, as they all descend from the same monotheistic religion, but the Hindu, Buddhist, and various pagan ideas are very different.
Jews and Christians believe in a God who is supremely concerned with human history, and especially with the aid of the poor and oppressed. Hindus, for example, view helping people born into unfortunate social standing and circumstances as sin; an insult to the gods. The Buddhhists believe that lack of concern for this world is unity with the Godhead. Pagans believe that the gods reside in all things equally, and humans are no more important than a tree or a dog. The pagan ethos usually does not discourage cruelty to other humans if it serves a purpose. (This is an ethos adopted by many Western "Christians", but it is a pagan, not a Christian ethos. It is painfully out of synch with the pathos of the Judeo-Christian God.)
2007-09-28 09:09:48 · answer #3 · answered by Jonathan 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I might be more inclined to feel that way if the adherents of those religions weren't so eager to subjugate and/or kill all who believe in a slightly different version of the divine than theirs.
But things being what they are, I think it's more a case of "I'm right and you're wrong" than it is of trying to embrace the divine in all its various forms.
2007-09-28 11:44:42 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree that God / Goddess / All That Is is One supreme being, known by many names. I believe in the Tao, in the Oneness of Us All, and that as a collective we are the One. Within this Oneness, we must dare to be different, for it is the harmonic synergy of our differences that makes the One divine.
2007-09-28 12:01:08 · answer #5 · answered by Shihan 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Long ago they (I don't know who) had a meeting and they said that the only way to keep people under control is to threaten them about some unknown, mysterious being who looks at them but they can't see him and will punish them when the time comes. That's how all the religions came to be.
How do I know? This is what atheists keep saying. Ask them.
2007-09-28 09:05:35 · answer #6 · answered by Andy Roberts 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Agree a 100%
2007-09-28 08:59:48 · answer #7 · answered by LoveistheAnswer 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There is only one God and this represented in Islam, Chirstianity and Judaism. In islam, u will find most of the issues discussed in the bible and the torah....few differences but all the prophets..including Jesus and Moses (maybe different names as its arabic are still there.
The difference is just how people pray to God/Allah...so yes they are not so different !!
2007-09-28 09:10:11 · answer #8 · answered by hazelb19 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
yes i do. it's also the same with different religions, they all preach the same thing yet one can sit there and say the other is evil. and it's the same with god's/goddesses. they are all looked upon as divine, loveing blah blah yet to another religion they are evil.
2007-09-28 16:38:01 · answer #9 · answered by crazy_one 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No because every major world religion has very contradictory views that cannot possibly be in harmony with one another.
2007-09-28 09:00:16 · answer #10 · answered by a g 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋