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The short answer: Religion is man reaching out to God.
The long answer: Christianity is God reaching out to man.
Suprised?
That's a modern Evangelical re-defining of the word, not what it means in and of itself.
-CryptoLutheran
Sorry, but Christianity is not God.
No. It's a chewed-out phrase that's become somewhat of a cliché - and of course, can also be traced back to the Jesus Movement of the 1960s and 70s.
suprise me...
stu
Interestingly, im not redefining anything. Im stating what religion is compared to Christianity. Whether you agree with that or not has no bearing on reality.
Christianity is a religion. According to the dictionary, religion is a set of beliefs concerning the cause, purpose and origin of the universe, involving superhuman agency or agencies, usually containing a moral code and rituals.
Clearly, Christianity fits the definition.
Does Buddhism even have an origin story?
Interestingly, im not redefining anything. Im stating what religion is compared to Christianity. Whether you agree with that or not has no bearing on reality.
"True" Religion is the instructed way to go back to Paradise,
"False" Religions are the easy way to burn in Hell!
I said the "instructed way", so you need to look in the instructions provided by each religion, are they satisfactory enough??!Now, let's guess which is which, in your opinion...
Then contrast that with the average Christian's take on this ("Only Jesus saves, and muslims are deceived by the devil!"), the Jehova's Witness ("only JWs will inhabit the new world, while the rest is annihilated in the fire") or even the hardcore communist ("religion is the tranquilizer that makes people stay in oppression; only Communism can create paradise on earth!").
This is exactly why I consider these huge, sweeping meta-narratives to be so deleterious and counter-productive.
I said the "instructed way", so you need to look in the instructions provided by each religion, are they satisfactory enough??!
Yes. And you said the "easy way" to burn in hell. Very easy in fact, if, as you suggest, it is just the simple result of following the wrong set of instructions. Ah. But perhaps we haven't checked them sufficiently for satisfactory-ness. Or more likely, we were born in the wrong part of the world to the wrong parents.
Either way...burn in hell? Quite a nasty way of dealing with all of this. Why does it satisfy you that Allah should do that to people who choose wrongly? That makes me think that this has nothing to do with God or Allah but far more to do with the blood thirsty desire, some folk seem to secretly relish, for seeing other human beings suffer.
The beating of our hearts is far from supernatural, and easily explained in terms of physiology. No magic/god is required.If you deny, then can you answer me who made your heart beats?
Actually, plenty of other animals can distinguish between good and bad, particularly other social species living in groups. Heck, even dogs manage that, though they're reviled by your religion.Allah has given you a brain that can distinguish between good and bad, which makes you different from animals.
You know what?The beating of our hearts is far from supernatural, and easily explained in terms of physiology. No magic/god is required.
Actually, plenty of other animals can distinguish between good and bad, particularly other social species living in groups. Heck, even dogs manage that, though they're reviled by your religion.
Denver the guilty dog is not special in that regard:
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