Is it this: Christianity is the only true religion, even though there is no more evidence that it represents
truth than any other religion!
Not exact matches
Michael «As a gay man I appreciate there efforts and support, but I think putting up this sign isn't really the best way to get through to people, all it does is create more hate, intolerance, and separation, I am not a christian but I am very spiritual, and putting up this sign implies that all gay people are atheists which is the furthest thing from the
truth, I have no problem with
religion, I have a problem with those who use there
religions to control and hate
others, same applies with atheism, if you don't want to believe in anything
than fine, just don't push your non beliefs on me.»
As a gay man I appreciate there efforts and support, but I think putting up this sign isn't really the best way to get through to people, all it does is create more hate, intolerance, and separation, I am not a christian but I am very spiritual, and putting up this sign implies that all gay people are atheists which is the furthest thing from the
truth, I have no problem with
religion, I have a problem with those who use there
religions to control and hate
others, same applies with atheism, if you don't want to believe in anything
than fine, just don't push your non beliefs on me.
Even if we accept that there is absolute
truth, why should anyone accept that Christianity or the Bible embody that absolute
truth any better
than any
other religion or an individual's personal belief?
It is difficult to avoid the implication that what is authentic in Christianity is its «soul,» that is, the ways it agrees with
other revealed
religions, and that Christianity's «body»» all the ways it is distinct and particular» serve more to obscure
than reveal the
truth.
Different
religions are different approximations to the
truth, but some approximations converge on the
truth faster
than others (as described to me by Ian, an Orthodox engineer).
We appropriately celebrate rather
than deny the presence of potentially helpful ideas in
other religions, whether those ideas are confirmations of
truths already contained in Christianity, or whether they offer something new and heretofore unrecognized by Christianity.
To James: «In
truth, as far as I've been able to tell,
religion and faith have lead to more bloodshed
than any
other force in all of human history, and are currently responsible for an unwarranted amount of pain and suffering in the world».
In
truth, as far as I've been able to tell,
religion and faith have lead to more bloodshed
than any
other force in all of human history, and are currently responsible for an unwarranted amount of pain and suffering in the world.
In some ways more shocking
than the renewal of the demand to take
other great religious traditions seriously and appreciatively, is the awareness of the
truth and wisdom in the supposedly «primitive»
religions.
Aside from the silliness of all
religions (
other than some core, non-dogmatic
truths that may be derived), it is an outrage what these barbarians are doing.
The little question mark there, it also applies more to Christianity
than other religions, because in
other religions the
truth claims are not the same.
You are right dear but to tell you the
truth I know nothing about the Jewish
religion other than what we know in the Quran therefore I guess I have just to skip this blog.
In teaching religious principles, the issue has a different set of concerns
than other subjects might, perhaps, as tenets of a
religion are presented as a universal
truth and moral code.