Don't
all religions make the same claim?
Not exact matches
it's the
same claim virtually every
religion makes.
you sir are practicing a
religion one that means so much to you that you use it as your online name also please show me where I call you a fool or is telling someone not to
make a fool of themself the
same as calling them a fool which would mean you are very religious as far as Colin he said nothing that related to the debate I was in with you... we are talking about Atheism as a religious view not debating the existence of God now look over the definitions I have shown you and please explain how Atheism does not fit into the said definitions And you
claim that evolution is true so the burden of proof falls in your lap as it is the base of your
religion.
As for the
claim that if one simply waits long enough with an open heart, God will reveal Himself — that
same argument is
made by just about every
religion.
But if you
make the
same claims for a
religion that's been followed (granted, often poorly) for a couple thousand years, then it's looked upon with skepticism.
Both communism and National Socialism
claimed many of the prerogatives of
religion and
made many of the
same promises — from the creation of a «new man» to the fulfillment of many of the communitarian ideals found in
religion.
What about all the other gods, all the other
religions they
make the exact
same claim as you without any proof and history has shown over and over again those gods didn't exist either.
It is out of the question to try to grasp God through sight (which is the equivalent of reducing truth to reality), to
claim that what one sees can be God (in this case one converts reality into truth), or to
make a representation of something in the spiritual realm (which is the
same as consecrating a
religion, since
religions always belong to the visual realm).
Without reducing all
religions to a quest for one common essence — which the pluralist position is often accused of doing — and without
making the simplistic
claim that all
religions are saying or doing «the
same thing,» it nevertheless seems that in their own widely divergent ways they all seek and express union with something like what we have been calling «mystery.»
This
claim, in theory and practice, is as exclusive as any
made by certain
religions in history, and has the
same tragic consequences on the life of other people who refuse to accept such
claims.
It is a point, moreover, where civil
religion and civility become much the
same thing.2 I do not feel comfortable with the student's question of whether I am a Christian because the
claims I
make in the name of Christianity, while real, are nevertheless importantly limited.