The Amish's, the Mormons», the Catholics», the Muslims», the Hindi's, the Jews», or perhaps that of someone who belongs to one of
the hundreds of other religions?
Just as much «evidence» exists about the Egyptioan gods, Buddha, and
hundreds of other religions.
Same question for
hundreds of other religions.
I suppose you could say the same about Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Shinto, Sikhism, and
hundreds of other religions right?
It could be lslam, Judaism, Buddhism, or one of hundreds of flavors of Christianity, or one of
hundreds of other religions.
And, are you saying that since there are billions of people that follow Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Mormonism, and all
the hundreds of other religions, that their god are equally real?
Not exact matches
The stories written about him decades later are inconsistent with each
other on important details, went through an editing process
hundreds of years later, and incorporate a number
of myths
of other religions popular at the time.
why would a god make
hundreds of diferent «
religions» all
of which mutually exclude each
other?
I'd post this question to you — let's say you're born into a mormon family, or a jewish family, or a muslim family, or any
other of the
hundreds of religions on this planet, and you believe what your parents are taught.
No it has not been proven where did you see that on an alien special on a & e, Read up on it those
other religions did not have Jesus as a Savior and did not have men writing 1000s
of years apart talking about the same events, and phrophecizing about things that happened in later chapters written
hundreds of years later... and in no bok any where was there a man like Jesus, who spoke the words that Jesus spoke and died for people who hated Him like Jesus did, and spoke the parabales and life lessons like Jesus did... look at what Jesus spoke... read it nowhere has there been a better teacher
of life then in His words.
Oh don't ignore the
hundreds of other religeons and gods that would oppose your
religion.
These two great forces maintain in Egypt a remarkable equilibrium without either destroying the
other — perhaps because
of the deep - rooted faith in
religion which has been growing in the hearts
of the Egyptians for
hundreds of years — and education in Egypt continues to rest on the dual foundation
of religious and secular studies.
everything in the universe evolves, not only life forms but also memes,
Religion is a meme so it also change in conformity to its era or time
of its conception as faith.Because in pre scientific times thousands
of years ago, the scientific method
of approach or philosophy has not existed yet, myth or merely story telling is considered facts, The first
religion called animism more than 10,000 years ago believed that spirits or god exists in trees, rivers, mountains, boulders or in any places people at that time considered holy.
hundreds of them, then when the Greeks and Romans came, it was reduced to 12, they called it polytheism, when the Jews arrived, it was further reduced to 1, monotheism.its derivatives, Christianity And Islam and later
hundreds of denominations that includes Mormonism and Protestants flourished up to today.So in short this
religions evolved in accordance to the scientific knowledge
of the age or era they existed.If you graph the growth
of knowledge, it shows a sharp increase in the last 500 years, forcing the dominant
religions at that time to reinterprete their dogmas, today this traditional
religions are becoming obsolete and has to evolve to survive.But first they have to unify against atheism.in the dialectical process
of change, Theism in one hand and the opposing force atheism in the
other, will resolve into a result or synthesis.The process shall be highlighted in the internet in the near future.
Oh, and I have heard that verse... and the LITERALLY
HUNDREDS OF OTHERS that claimed the EXACT SAME THING in
religions that PREDATED or had no contact with Judaism or Christianity.
Over
hundreds of years, St Nicholas myths mixed in with bits
of the Norse god Odin and his flying horse and, before you know it, a Christian bishop known for generosity had crossed a continent, been stirred into
other religions, and was ready to cross the ocean.
I was struck by a remark Paul Haggis made, that
other religions give you all their most basic beliefs in the first few minutes, while with Scientology you can be years into it and
hundreds of thousands
of dollars down before they get around to telling you about Xenu and the volcano people and so on.
fred I have witnessed as well as
hundreds of millions
of others is that the Bible is true ----- The huge problem with this, is that you are asserting that the brand
of man - made
religion that you prefer to follow is «true», relative to all
others.
While
of the
other two great surviving missionary
religion, one, Buddhism, has long been practically stationary, and the
other, Islam, has made few if any major gains in the past
hundred years, Christianity, in spite
of the many obstacles which beset its path, is still spreading.
Two
hundred and fifty years before Christ, King Asoka, one
of the noblest figures in world history and the great promulgator
of Buddhism, proclaimed to his subjects not only tolerance but also love for
other religions.
There are 19
other religions, each with at least
hundreds of thousands
of believers.
the fear couldn't come from something obvious, like say the
hundreds of violent muslim terrorist acts per year, which compares in reality to no
other modern
religion.
For example, encoded in the number is a person's hair color, height, line
of employment,
religion, if they have children, political leanings, and
hundreds of other pieces
of information.
As cataloged in the Public Schooling Battle Map, government schools have forced parents into conflict over issues like freedom
of expression,
religion, morality, creationism, evolution, multiculturalism, sexuality, and numerous
other issues in
hundreds of reported cases in recent years.