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What Are the Assumptions of Religion

metis

metis

aged ecumenical anthropologist
There's a thread entitled "What Are the Assumptions of Science", so I thought I'd start a counter-thread entitled "What Are the Assumptions of Religion".

Who wants to be first?
 
Draka

Draka

Wonder Woman
Are you looking for things held throughout all religions? That can be quite difficult to do as they vary so widely that to say anything at all would require one to be extremely vague and "generally speaking". One can easily enough say, I guess, that most religions start with the assumption that there is something more to us, something inherently more to life itself, than just the biological factors at play. Something that connects us to each other or something greater than what we physically can know and fully understand.
 
DawudTalut

DawudTalut

Peace be upon you.
metis said:
There's a thread entitled "What Are the Assumptions of Science", so I thought I'd start a counter-thread entitled "What Are the Assumptions of Religion".

Who wants to be first?
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Peace be on you.

assumption
əˈsʌm(p)ʃ(ə)n/
noun
  1. 1.
    a thing that is accepted as true or as certain to happen, without proof.
    "they made certain assumptions about the market"
    synonyms: supposition, presupposition, presumption, premise, belief, expectation,conjecture, speculation, surmise, guess, theory, hypothesis,postulation, conclusion, deduction, inference, thought, suspicion,notion, impression, fancy;
    guesswork, guessing, reckoning;
    informal guesstimate
    "the statistic is only an informed assumption


Assumptions of religion, according to real Islam are:
To live life according to God Who is Lord, Grants with benevolence, Grants results to our efforts, Master.
To follow the model of Messenger.
To live peacefully with fellow human.
To pay rights of God.
To pay rights of God's creation.
To make life in the world good.
To help to get nearness of God in this world and in Hereafter.
To learn knowledge including science, as science is the working of same God Who made religion.
To be beneficial to everyone.
 
Quintessence

Quintessence

Consults with Trees
Staff member
Premium Member
There are no assumptions I can think of that are universal to all religions. Not a one. Not unless asking questions counts as an assumption, which I don't think it does.
 
paarsurrey

paarsurrey

Veteran Member
One may like to view my response to the OP in the thread "What Are the Assumptions of Science?" by clicking Post #75.
Regards
 
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paarsurrey

paarsurrey

Veteran Member
metis said:
There's a thread entitled "What Are the Assumptions of Science", so I thought I'd start a counter-thread entitled "What Are the Assumptions of Religion".
Who wants to be first?
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Will this counter-thread off-set the weaknesses of science? Please
It has in fact highlighted the weaknesses of the science.
Regards
 
paarsurrey

paarsurrey

Veteran Member
DawudTalut said:
Peace be on you.

assumption
əˈsʌm(p)ʃ(ə)n/
noun
  1. 1.
    a thing that is accepted as true or as certain to happen, without proof.
    "they made certain assumptions about the market"
    synonyms: supposition, presupposition, presumption, premise, belief, expectation,conjecture, speculation, surmise, guess, theory, hypothesis,postulation, conclusion, deduction, inference, thought, suspicion,notion, impression, fancy;
    guesswork, guessing, reckoning;
    informal guesstimate
    "the statistic is only an informed assumption


Assumptions of religion, according to real Islam are:
To live life according to God Who is Lord, Grants with benevolence, Grants results to our efforts, Master.
To follow the model of Messenger.
To live peacefully with fellow human.
To pay rights of God.
To pay rights of God's creation.
To make life in the world good.
To help to get nearness of God in this world and in Hereafter.
To learn knowledge including science, as science is the working of same God Who made religion.
To be beneficial to everyone.
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I like your post.
Thanks and regards.
 
Deathbydefault

Deathbydefault

Apistevist Asexual Atheist
Every (theistic) religion assumes their God/Gods is/are in some way unique and true.
Religious people, of the more general sort, seem to assume their religion is in some way "special".
 
Draka

Draka

Wonder Woman
Deathbydefault said:
Every (theistic) religion assumes their God/Gods is/are in some way unique and true.
Religious people, of the more general sort, seem to assume their religion is in some way "special".
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That one isn't quite right. Every theistic religion does not hold that their deity/deities are unique and true. There are those that hold that all paths are important and teach needed lessons. That different religions just see different faces of the same gods, use different words to describe the same things.
 
Deathbydefault

Deathbydefault

Apistevist Asexual Atheist
Draka said:
That one isn't quite right. Every theistic religion does not hold that their deity/deities are unique and true. There are those that hold that all paths are important and teach needed lessons. That different religions just see different faces of the same gods, use different words to describe the same things.
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I respectfully disagree.
I can see how many Gods/Deities/Higher Spiritual Beings are similar to each other, but they have a uniqueness.
That unique trait can be found in personal perception, or in literature, or even word of mouth.

I also agree that all Deity beliefs are similar, but on various levels.
Hence: "Religious people, of the more general sort, seem to assume their religion is in some way "special"."
 
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