All religions are basically the same - or is that all Good religions...

I'm glad we've got you to tell us what are the good religions

MorkandMindy said:

there certainly are a lot of differences between different religions, but if you kept only the 'good' religious groups

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...then we'd all be fighting over which groups to keep.

theFijian said:

I'm glad we've got you to tell us what are the good religions

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I should hope so, cause the regs in here have no idea.

King Mob said:

I should hope so, cause the regs in here have no idea.

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Didn't you say you were leaving here and not coming back?

theFijian said:

Didn't you say you were leaving here and not coming back?

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Did I? O well, here's Johnny!!

As far as religions and world views, there is usually some overlap and also significant agreements and disagreements.

Having said that , Jesus did say “Every plant that my heavenly Father has not planted will be rooted up." in Mathew 5:13. This seems not very politically correct and not a universalist view.

"The poet Steve Turner describes brilliantly what many think when it comes to religion: “Jesus was a good man just like Buddha, Mohammed, and ourselves. We believe he was a good teacher of morals but we believe that his good morals are really bad. We believe that all religions are basically the same, at least the one we read was. They all believe in love and goodness, they only differ on matters of creation, sin, heaven, hell, God, and salvation.”"
http://rzim.org/a-slice-of-infinity/dont-all-religions-lead-to-god

Michael Scaman said:

As far as religions and world views, there is usually some overlap and also significant agreements and disagreements.

Having said that , Jesus did say “Every plant that my heavenly Father has not planted will be rooted up." in Mathew 5:13. This seems not very politically correct and not a universalist view.

"The poet Steve Turner describes brilliantly what many think when it comes to religion: “Jesus was a good man just like Buddha, Mohammed, and ourselves. We believe he was a good teacher of morals but we believe that his good morals are really bad. We believe that all religions are basically the same, at least the one we read was. They all believe in love and goodness, they only differ on matters of creation, sin, heaven, hell, God, and salvation.”"
http://rzim.org/a-slice-of-infinity/dont-all-religions-lead-to-god

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The secularists like to believe that all religions are equal except their own

theFijian said:

The secularists like to believe that all religions are equal except their own

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No, just equal would have been enough,

Good works can't wash away sin; only Jesus can do that.

The idea of the interchangability of wold religions is one of fairly recent origin. It fits well with the modern universalistic ethic, but it flies in the face of common sense. Religions are different, not just in their beliefs but in how they counsel their followers to act, and ultimately in how they influence the cultures which with they come into contact.

King Mob said:

No, just equal would have been enough,

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You don't do self-awareness do you

All religions are superficially the same - any reasonable amount of effort to investigate religion(s0 in more detail reveals they are quite different from each other.

"But should Christianity be just another form of humanism?

If not then what should distinguish Christianity from humanism?"

I don't understand how you've connected talking about "good religion" with Humanism? Christianity is vastly different from Humanism (see - http://www.aboundingjoy.com/humanism_chart.htm) - the most obvious difference being the view of human nature:

Humanism - Sees man as basically good. Thinks that people should feel good about themselves regardless of their behavior. Tries to deal with guilt by positive self-talk.
Christianity - Realizes that man has a sin nature and tends to do evil things. Realizes that people have great value and worth because we are created in the image of God and for God’s glory. Believes that God has made each person very unique and special and for His glory. Realizes that God has a great purpose for each of us. Believes that through repentance and faith in Christ we can have our sin forgiven and be made into new creatures.

Humanism ignore the available data we have to understanding human behaviour. There is no evidence that we as humans are fundamentally good - there are numerous arguments that can be applied looking back over the course of history, looking at society today etc etc, that proves beyond any doubt that we are not intrinsically "good".

Basically Christianity says that we are basically "bad" and do good things from time to time...