Religion showdown!

[Katzpur]

Your right! The wiccans will be having a laugh...but only until Katzpur gets a hold of them

I won't touch the Wiccans or the Pagans. They are some of the nicest people I know. :yes: I suspect I'll have my hands full with some of the "real, genuine, bonafide, Bible-believing, saved" Christians I've met over the years.

 

[LuisDantas]

HUH?

You certainly don't think that any kind of divine being worth listening to would make such a proposition and mean it, now do you?

Variety of religions, Theism and Atheism aside, a true person of faith would necessarily call the bluff and refuse to play such a part.

It is not a matter of "choosing the right religion", but of basic decency. Or, if you prefer, of choosing to have a chance at being right as opposed to being certain of one's wrongfulness.

 

[Heneni]

You know, there are obvious parallels to the tale of Abraham's sacrifice at play here.

You mean when azazel came swooping down in the form of a bird?

Heneni

 

[LuisDantas]

You mean when azazel came swooping down in the form of a bird?

Heneni

No. That obedience to God is definitely a lesser value to basic decency.

 

[Heneni]

I won't touch the Wiccans or the Pagans. They are some of the nicest people I know. :yes: I suspect I'll have my hands full with some of the "real, genuine, bonafide, Bible-believing, saved" Christians I've met over the years.

That raises another point. What does the religion who is most willing to shed blood do with those who wont shed it to get the victory. You would be a traitor.....a heretic if you dont comply. 'To the gallows with YOU!':faint:

Heneni

 

[LuisDantas]

I'm starting to consider that my initial guess about your beliefs may be right after all, Heneni.

 

[challupa]

That raises another point. What does the religion who is most willing to shed blood do with those who wont shed it to get the victory. You would be a traitor.....a heretic if you dont comply. 'To the gallows with YOU!':faint:

Heneni

Isn't this kind of what's happening right now between religions, metaphorically of course.

 

[Reverend Rick]

I take comfort in knowing the Lord would not do us this way.

 

[Heneni]

You certainly don't think that any kind of divine being worth listening to would make such a proposition and mean it, now do you?

I do see the dillemma. Each one of us have our own idea of who god and what god is. If god had to manifest himself in a way that is irrefutable, and he says such a thing what is a person to do? This god is not what i though he would be. And now he is asking me to do something i would rather not do. However, the proof would be in the pudding. Could very well be that people who are against murder will , with enough incentive murder others. The god we have created in our mind, is the god we will listen to. But when that god in the mind, is not the same god that is manifested there will certainly be a conflict of interest.

On the other hand, if the god we have created in our minds, line up with the god that presents himself, and he says to murder, then murdering would be an easy thing to do. Not because HE says do it, but because we wanna do it anyway.

Variety of religions, Theism and Atheism aside, a true person of faith would necessarily call the bluff and refuse to play such a part.

Of course...the idea is to think about which religion has the greatest
affinity for murder.

That religion has most likely already created in their minds a god that is quite willing to ask them such a thing...for the purpose of the 'greater good'.

Heneni

 

[logician]

Any religion that thinks it is the one true way, isn't.

 

[Heneni]

I'm starting to consider that my initial guess about your beliefs may be right after all, Heneni.

Please spare me the heneni analyses OK? This is not suppose to have bearing on me on anybody on this forum. Dont act crazy, you dont have to put me in a box to love me or dislike me. Get on with accepting that im different to you, and lets talk and get along anyway. All of us have something we can contribute. We think we are reasonable people, and that is understandable. But none of us are an island ya?

Heneni

 

[Heneni]

Isn't this kind of what's happening right now between religions, metaphorically of course.

Actually i see a huge drive to unite all religions. There is the idea that we can all get along. And i think that might be possilbe, BUT, when there is booty involved i think in the end it will be every religion for itself.

I take comfort in knowing the Lord would not do us this way.

I agree. However, there is a certain 'thing' withing christians, which makes them believe that god wont do this or wont do that. Now im thinking god will never ask such a thing, and im confident like you that he wont. BUT, dont think for a second that the majority of christians would not actually wipe their fellow man out, even if it is with force if given enough incentive.

Heneni

 

[LuisDantas]

I do see the dillemma.

There is no dilemma. Only a flawed, self-contradicting premise with an obvious answer.

 

[Heneni]

Any religion that thinks it is the one true way, isn't.

Right on! There is only one way to god and that is through love. If your a christian, there is only one way to sonship, and that is through jesus.

Heneni

 

[Charity]

Any religion that thinks it is the one true way, isn't.

Most of them believe to be the one true religion, surely one of them is truly right...

 

[LuisDantas]

Please spare me the heneni analyses OK?

Why?

This is not suppose to have bearing on me on anybody on this forum. Dont act crazy, you dont have to put me in a box to love me or dislike me. Get on with accepting that im different to you, and lets talk and get along anyway. All of us have something we can contribute. We think we are reasonable people, and that is understandable. But none of us are an island ya?

Heneni

What does that paragraph have to do with the OP and your reasons to write it? Or mine for asking about them?

 

[Heneni]

There is no dilemma. Only a flawed, self-contradicting premise with an obvious answer.

I see...so your point in this thread is to make yourself look self-righteous. Well done! Self-righteousness is a universal disease.

Heneni

 

[LuisDantas]

I see...so your point in this thread is to make yourself look self-righteous. Well done! Self-righteousness is a universal disease.

Heneni

Actually, that is YOUR point. I only named it. Then again, I can read, and it DID have a name tag, so...

 

[Runewolf1973]

Don't take this the wrong way, it is just my personal opinion....

Which religion would win?... NONE. No religion would win over another because Man was never meant to have religion in the first place. When God supposedly created Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, did he give them both a copy of the Bible and say unto them "you must be Christians and follow the bible or else"? I don't think so. When humans first evolved on the planet (if going the evolutionary route) did they carry around bibles? Did they have religion? I don't think so. They lived amongst the animals and lived like the animals. No religion, no God. That's the way things should be in my opinion. That's the way things were in the beginning. If there were a God, would he not have just preferred humans to stay the way he originally created them? Pure, natural, and simple? Did God intend for there to be religion? I don't think so. I think humans have gone too far already. We must step down from our "minds" and our "egos" and learn what it's like to be animals once again. Animals are closer God. After all, animals never got kicked out of the metaphorical "Garden of Eden" did they? Yet they still live amongst us, why is that? In my opinion, humans are simply animals that have lost their way.

 

[Heneni]

Actually, that is YOUR point. I only named it. Then again, I can read, and it DID have a name tag, so...

Actually i dont care. I did not start this thread so that you can use me as a stepping stone to the great hollywood walk of fame. You mind?

Either love me, like me, or wait your turn to kill me

Heneni