Really? Try telling a Jew his or her faith is equally as valid as a Buddhist. Or try the same tactic with a Hindu and a Roman Catholic. They probably won't be too happy with you...and why? Because not all beliefs are equally true.
HUH?Did you really miss my point by that much?
Not only that, but the fact that none of those people would be too happy with you telling them their faith is as valid as all the others is right.
But not because not all are equally true.
Because they are all EQUALLY true and EQUALLY false, subjectively.
I'm not the one doing the pointing. Scripture's been around for nearly two millennia, and various people have criticized it for just as long a time. Why would anyone waste their time protesting a faith they don't believe? Because the inherent truth of it threatens their preconceptions. unlike many other "religions", Christianity calls people to be accountable to someone other than themselves or humanity, and some folks don't like that.
That is the most insane thing I have ever heard.
So you think that if I'm skeptical about Christianity and point out reasons why I don't believe in it and don't appreciate its value system, it's not that I'm... being a logically informed skeptic, it's just that I can't TAKE your truth?
Not only that, but it doesn't
sound like you love
your God much at all. It seems like you're just resigned to him as an unfightable dictator.
Not only that, way to totally take and inflate my use of the term "finger pointing" without at all addressing my actual point.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deva_(Hinduism)
"Jesus, how can we know that your faith is the right one if we know so little about the others?"
"..."
I've said it more than once: the misuse of a standard does not warrant its disuse. Think about it.
"I mean, really
think about it."
Why? Can you name one good reason for that belief, other than your own opinion?
My reasoning was evident.
I believe it is reductive and disrespectful to the concept of God to believe that such an infinite, powerful, galactic being can even be PICTURED by human beings, let alone that he LOOKS like us.
I'm not denying the fact that they've made a choice to believe in something. I'm merely challenging that what they believe (while it may be beneficial) may not, in fact, be true.
Yeah?
Well blank slate right now and allow yourself to be open to the idea that your own ideas seem equally untrue in their eyes with the same fierce devotion and certainty as your own.
And then get scared and understand the idea of multiple unstoppable, devoted, unalterable forces for their own iDeAs of God bouncing off of each other.
THAT is scary.
THAT is why I don't believe in religious certainty.
And beyond that, I think religious certainty is largely a result of a lack of ability to empathize or see other points of view. Which to me is antithetical to my personal belief in God, and my desire for what I consider the most religious experience of all, a collective, inspiring, beautiful human one.
but I still had a bris ect.
