an anarchist
Your local anarchist.
I agree with you.I have been developing a thought for a while now and can't get to grips with how people come to accept this idea:
If something is important in your life (Christianity for example), that affects decisions you make, it is reasonable to want and maybe need it to be true.
Many other people claim other religions to be true.
Therefore it is reasonable to study these other religions to discount them as false and support your own.
A religious person who has not understood other religions through study etc, cannot know that are false, or cannot discount them. Cannot even say Christianity is more likely than another religion without studying it.
Therefore, all religious people who have not studied all religions are disingenuous when claiming they follow the correct one, as they do not know if another is true without some understanding of it.
Any thoughts or ideas would be appreciated. I'm getting to grips with critical thinking and trying to parse information, so any corrections or mistakes in my thought process would be welcomed.
I joined this site while my goal was to discover the "truth" about God. Study many religions I did.
I made a recent thread, and the peeps of this site seemed not to care too much about being correct.
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