Religious folk: Isn't it interesting that there are so many different faiths?

[Zaphod]

Not just faiths that are a bit different, but faiths that are 100% in opposition to your own.

Think about it: There is someone out there who is JUST as faithful and JUST as devout as you are, but they subscribe to a God, dogma, and set of morals that totally contradict your own.

There are people who, just like you, would quite literally die for their faith, even though their faith is opposite to yours.

Does that ever make you think about what it is that YOU believe?
Does the fact that so many people who don’t agree with you at all, but are JUST as faithful as you are, generate any skepticism?

 

[Deanna]

i have pondered this ALOT!
its kinda funny because every religion will say "we are the right religion"
well.. hm
its hard to believe they are all right!

 

[muehlbaternsv]

I have found you can have a relationship with the one true God. There was a time I simply had to believe what was told me.

 

[pappy12a]

And your point is...?

With six billion people around there's bound to be some philosophical discrepancies

 

[Reoriented]

Because there are no faiths that are 100% the opposite of mine I believe there is a core of truth that all agree to. I see this with ancient pagans as well as modern "know-nothing" atheism. Much more with other forms of Christianity from mine.

Those that would die for their faith agree with mine anywhere from 40% to 99.9%. The days of seeing other religions as "diabolical parodies" is over. Even if someones morals disagree with mine 20%, he is following his sense of right and wrong, which is all you can ask someone who has not been evangelized. He is good.

There are people who agree with me 99.99% who are evil. That there exist good people who disagree with me 90%, 90%, 99% is clearly possible.

 

[mrglass08]

Does it to your beliefs? If not then should it?

 

[octopus]

I doubt theists would want to think about it. Critical thinking of your own religion is taboo.

 

[Godboy]

It makes me notice how lucky I am to born in a land that is following the right one. The fallen angels appeared to some as gods and the sumerians , egyptians greeks all wrote rligions based on them. At the tower of Babel men were splattered all across the earth. Men who had all heard the truth from their grandpa Noah. The men who started other religions were all taught from Noah's knowledge indirectly or directly. Thoes men were presumably ticked off at God aftere being seperated rom their precious tower, and now we wonder why they didn't tell teh story the way it was taught from Noah? <amy of the religions do have common threads. Buddism has a strong part about purifying one's self. similar to the Hebrew remission of sins