Of all known religious beliefs which one seems most reasonable?

by The Berean 76 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  WTWizard

  I think the principle that any volitional act that is good for self and/or society is moral, and any volitional act that is bad for self and/or society is immoral is enough. If that was the only guiding rule, it should be extremely easy to teach. Even small children can comprehend that without wasting hours and hours at church or the Kingdumb Hell.

  Within that, most of the work is finding out what is good and what is bad. Trial and error are permitted, and voluntary acceptance of risks is necessary if society is to move ahead. However, if this were practiced universally, society would be far ahead of where it is now--notably, I believe Nimrod attempted to preach and teach this very simple belief, and was confused for doing it by that Almighty Lowlife Scumbag Jehovah.
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  keyser soze

  Atheism isn't generally useful.

  If something inspires people to take responsibility for their own lives instead of attributing everything to a higher power, then I think it's quite useful.
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  metatron

  Watch the movie. With it's simple eloquence, it says it all:

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2MWKaDHUNs

  metatron
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  FlyingHighNow

  Universalism, in whatever form it takes. There are universalists in almost all major religions, including Christian and Muslim.
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  FlyingHighNow

  Universalist quotes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universalism

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  I believe in the fundamental Truth of all great religions of the world. I believe they are all God given and I believe they were necessary for the people to whom these religions were revealed. And I believe that if only we could all of us read the scriptures of the different faiths from the standpoint of the followers of these faiths, we should find that they were at the bottom all one and were all helpful to one another. - M K Gandhi [6]

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  We have never been willing to sacrifice such ideals at the price of chains or slavery. -Patrick Henry [7]

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  The path that leads to peace will be, no doubt, long and arduous, but we cannot even begin the journey until we pass through the gate. Above the gate is the required universal affirmation: ""On the path that leads to peace we are all members of one human family, brothers and sisters one of another. -Knapp Rev. Ron Knapp . . . Unitarianism [8]
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  FlyingHighNow

  This is just the Christian form of Universalism. Main article: Christian Universalism

  In Christianity, Universalism refers to the belief that all humans can be saved through Jesus Christ and eventually come to harmony in God's kingdom. A related doctrine, apokatastasis, is the belief that all mortal beings will be reconciled to God, including Satan and his fallen angels. Universalism was a fairly commonly held view among theologians in early Christianity: In the first five or six centuries of Christianity, there were six known theological schools, of which four (Alexandria, Antioch, Cesarea, and Edessa or Nisibis) were Universalist, one (Ephesus) accepted conditional immortality, and one (Carthage or Rome) taught the endless punishment of the lost. [ 3 ] The two major theologians opposing it were Tertullian and Augustine. [citation needed]

  In the seventeenth-century and eighteenth-century Europe and America, other Christian reformers came to believe in a universally loving God and felt that God would grant all human beings salvation. They became known as the Universalists. [ 4 ]
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  caliber

  A religion is an organized approach to human

  spirituality

  which usually encompasses a set of

  narratives

  ,

  symbols

  , beliefs and practices, often with a

  supernatural

  or

  transcendent

  quality, that give meaning to the practitioner's experiences of life through reference to a higher power or

  truth

  .

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  It would seem to me that once you have even two people with common spirituality you in essence have a religion !

  Caliber
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  still_in74

  agnosticism...
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  Hittman

  I think Buddhism is interesting – I don't subscribe to it, because I like having desire as a motivation - but it's pretty peaceful and not nearly as obnoxious as most other religions. I have a little golden Buddha on my desk.
  
  If you're going to believe in a deity, Deism makes the most sense. There's no way a God who is all-powerful and omniscient and benevolent could have created this world, much less preside over it.
  
  Atheism isn't generally useful. Civilizations need myths, not facts.
  
  Only if you want a dumbed down civilization whose growth is severely retarded. Myths are quite useful, as long as you recognize them as myths. Religions want their myths regarded as facts, which causes a plethora of problems.
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  gubberningbody

  still_in74's clearly shaves w/Occam's razor. Right. That's the only logically defensible position. Atheism is just another form of fundamentalism.