by kenpodragon 25 Replies latest jw friends
The way I see it is how can the Dubs, who claim they are the only truth, be right and evryone else wrong. I mean there is only about 6 million dubs out of 6 billion people on this planet. That mean that .01% are right and 99.9% are full of crap!!! Yeah right.
Will
If I can mangle your analogy a bit, KenpoDragon, maybe the "right car" is not a car but a bicycle.
It is an easy case to make. Bicycles are FAR more energy efficient than automobiles, they pollute very little (figuring in the by products of manufacture). Their energy source is as renewable as the food supply, and they improve or maintain the health and fitness of the user.
Why then do people use cars?
For a reason that exists throughout the animal kingdom - the pursuit of comfort.
I believe that there is no one right religion - that the right religion is not a religion, but a rational philosophy.
If mankind embraced a rational philosophy, ther would be much less conflict than there is over religion, because a rational philosophy is not built upon the imaginations of its adherents but upon the solid evidence of the senses - a rational philosophy will be congruent with observable reality, not counter to it as religion is.
Why do people cling to this deficient vehicle called religion?
Comfort.
I realise that many, even most of the people here may disagree with my opinion. That's OK. I do not regretfully look back to barbarian times when an infidel could be stoned to death. I love them anyway, and I believe that where there is life there is hope.
Edited by - Nathan Natas on 19 September 2002 20:1:5
I think its all about freedom of choice...religion is just another aspect where we can (or should) exercise this freedom.
We base our choices on information and experience, as well as personal taste and preferences. We can argue what is the BEST car type or the TRUE religion til the cows come home, unless, you take away our freedom to choose...but even then the argument won't end, it will only be stiffled.
Beck
a) all religions are wrong.
b) there is no God who would care in what we believe.
c) religions are full of nonsense. so if a believer accepts that other religions might be right in some aspects than he admits inevitably that his idiotic believes are at least somewhat wrong. hence he admits that the whole bogus believesystem of his is nothing but nonsense --> all other religions have to be wrong otherwise it doesn't make sense to believe in my own one.
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The only reason people think there has to be one right religion is because their religion teaches that there is only one right religion - which just happens to be theirs.
Its just marketing nothing else.
Personally I don't there is one--because anytime you get a group of people together who think "their" way is the "only" way, then problems arise. Be it abuse of power, sexual, mental, physical or any other type of abuse--something goes wrong. I really appreciate Kenpo's line of reasoning, because if anyone can't see the diversity in nature then they are truly "blind".
And besides, the way I've put it into perspective lately is this--how many of you who are parents would KILL your own children for doing some things you don't personally agree with? That's what we claim to follow in most religions today (especially Christianity). However you look at it, if you don't agree with something then you will die by your own loving?! Father. Does that make any sense? Not in my mind!
Becky
Hmmm well 2+2=4 and thats it. We might want it to be 3 but its not, it can only be 4. What we like and what we want doesnt make it 'correct'. Ok, im done playing devil's advocate......
That is true, but then again, so is this true:
1+3 = 4
There is more than one way to reach the number 4..!!!
Good point, and in addition there are trillions of numbers ... why only add up to
4 when there is so much more out there.
Yes, and all those numbers are part of a system called mathematics. Mathematcs used in physics, chemistry, electromagnecs gets very complex. But they are all part of the way things are in one giant system. And so, there is only one spiritual path. Every one is on the path. Most people don't see the others on it because it is so large. People used to think that everything revolved around the earth. Many people still have that kind of thinking, in the religious field.
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