mikkel_the_dane
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That depends on what is taken for granted for what is the best method for deciding. That is a whole sub-field in sociology, psychology, politics, religion and/or philosophy.
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The Most Agreeable Religion
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That depends on what is taken for granted for what is the best method for deciding. That is a whole sub-field in sociology, psychology, politics, religion and/or philosophy.
mikkel_the_dane
My own religion
None of the current crop? Mine might do but it needs work to get it into a saleable proposition.
Okay, I doubt you will succeed, because since over 2000+ years that has been tried and all versions have failed so far.
The Crimson Universe
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Mmm... I love lesbian action. Or i would say i used to love it. Now i don't find much interest in sexual pleasure or pornos. Religious teachings have turned me into an asexual robot.
firedragon
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Hmm. Do you think that lets say the governments come together, develop a nuclear weapon that wipes out the whole of humanity in one go, that would be a solution? Done and dusted.
Brian2
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James 1:27 Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
That would include most world religions and with the "polluted by the world", is vague enough to include those without a religion.......................and God is not even mentioned, so that part could be optional.
firedragon
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Why?
Heyo
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I understood his as an answer to the second question, i.e. a prediction, not a favourite.
Heyo
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Ordeal by battle, of course - if we can't agree in a battle of the wits.
(I'm willing to act as the champion for Jediism if I get a light sabre.)
Secret Chief
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I'm also wondering Satanism? Widely misunderstood but could be a dark horse.
Depends on how many people are there or who is/has the healthiest bodies. The religion that will make it will be those of the people who can live the longest because I do not think that people will easily give that up. If there are multiple people who are there from each faith it may simply be those who can kill the fastest (if equal numbers of persons perhaps forming alliances first based on how close they are to one another). Either way there is going to be a lot of death or old people that I see.
I'd favor Roman Catholicism.
Idealistic absolute unity os a delusions of Grand illusion, but unity in diversity is a possibility in the future.where the ancient religion based tribalism gives way ro a world conscious of of the universal spiritual heritage of humanity. Unfortunately is will be a long time before. The first unifying force will be science, when ancient views without science become totally absurd beyond belief. They actually are absurd and self destructive, but unfortunately many some ancient tribalist beliefs persist burdened by superstition. The unifying force of science will in part result form the need for humanity to survive irsown self destruction.
I will go with the evolving Baha'i Faith and variations Universalist beliefs like UU. The world will maintain their culturally diverse identities, but will unite in principle for the survival of humanity
Hitler already tried to make one big religion.
But, that was after centuries of torture to convert so-called "wrong religions." In Italy, they were called "conversos" (converts), and all Jews were required to convert. I suspect that Galileo Galilee was of a "converso" family of Jews, since the name clearly derives from a location in what is now Israel.
King Henry VIII converted England to his brand of Protestant religion (chopping off heads of those who resisted, and making himself the head of the religion so no one could tell him who he couldn't divorce. His Privy Council and Lord Protector of England, the now sainted Sir Thomas Moore, objected (but lost his head for it). Then Bloody Mary (HVIII's dau) chopped off the heads of 150 ministers who had refused to comply with switching back to the original Catholic religion.
Instead of forcing uniformity and conformity, perhaps the United States had the right idea when they "tried to" give religious freedom to all.
But, look at the arguments that religious freedom created. Some people don't want wars (killing) and torture camps, as the Religious Right does. Some people don't want gun rights (support of the National Rifle Association) as the Religious Right does. Some people don't want to prevent condoms from getting to teens in order to prevent pregnancies, STDs, and AIDS (another goal of the Religious Right). Some people don't want to destroy God's environment to make cheap oil and lumber that would enrich the already rich with even more mammon (another goal of the Religious Right). Some people don't want to teach just one religion in schools (eliminating science because it refutes certain passages in the bible)....ah...the good ol days of the Dark Ages (another goal of the Religious Right). Some people define a fetus to be alive by its brain activity...others by exiting the womb into the world....still others by conception (some say that early abortion is murder, while others say that it is flushing a few cells).
Who do we have to murder, torture, or force into compliance to achieve our "peaceful" united religion?
No, I'm just a regular moron.
VoidCat
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I agree with this guy. That's the only way you'd be able to get humans to agree on having just one religion if theres no humans. I dont think killing all humans is a good thing but there's no way you'd get them to agree. I'd for one hate to live in that kind of world were there is just conformity to one belief I like diversity.
VoidCat
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If you really want unity...teach people to embrace diversity.
I am always struck by the Baha'i faith as exemplified in this forum. It seems like a faith of worshiping God while not forcing it upon others. It is a faith of peace, and following God's intentions. It is so refreshing to meet members of your faith.
At the Tower of Babel, God separated people, and made them each speak different religions. Why? Could it be that they were feuding and the only way to keep them from killing each other was to separate them? Was God waiting for them to mature into peace lovers, then allow them to communicate and learn from each other? Could it be that God gave each group only a part of his message, and that to understand the entire message one would have to unite with and respect other religions?
The world seems to greatly disrespect science, at the moment. Scientists are urgently issuing dire scenarios of Global Warming but, people are ignoring them....fueled by refutations from the Religious Right. We're supposed to support the rich (after mammon) so they can give us jobs, while they rape the resources of the world, leaving behind toxic waste, polluting our air and water.
This is a battle, not just between the religions, but a battle that is eating away at our very existence and diminishing the effect of science.
I favor "thou shalt not kill," "turn the other cheek," "thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife." Etc.
But look at the world of debt, homelessness (some are kids), wars, a torture camp (or more), deforestation, drought, pestilence, lack of trade, lack of jobs, disease.
The world is a mess. But, I cannot blame the religions that grabbed power in the US. Rather, the fact that they don't adhere to their own religious edicts (with wars and environmental destruction and do not following in the path of Jesus to help the poor and sick), means that it isn't the religion that failed (making a mess of the world today), but it is ignoring and defying God.
What are we doing in Iraq while God told us not to attack it?
I have to retain my own voice, and not go with the flow and hop on the bandwagon. I can't just follow any religion that the majority settles on. I have to be on God's side, because God knows what we must do (stop fighting, stop torturing, help the poor and the sick).
Look at the opposition to universal health care (Obamacare). Obama wanted everyone to be cured of infectious diseases. If they are sick, they could spread illness to others (even spread to the rich). If they are sick, they can't work as hard or produce as much. The problem is....who pays for it. What form of economics must we have to assure that everyone is healthy....Socialism?
It's one with a current Guide who will become one day a Messenger who will clarify the truth and have clear proofs in terms of miracles who no human would have the right to doubt when he performs the miracles.
Miracles are not meant to be relics of the past, to be gone forever.