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I actually think all religions have a piece of the truth and there are religions other than Christianity that also have much to commend them.
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Quote by: rez  This is just waffling, but luckily you still atleast said something debatable.
Claiming someone has a piece of the truth is dishonest. Nobody on the face of the earth has a god like view of the universe. Perhaps if we were dealing with a closed system that was simple and easy to understand then maybe there would be "truth". However, reality is an open and complex system that has a lot of undiscovered things and much of the discovered things are still not fully understood.
Personally I try to not make any claims about god and whether or not it exists, but I will address god advocates and the silly statements they do state. |
Not waffling at all. There would be no Christianity without Judaism and much of what Christianity teaches as well as many Christian customs and many accepted virtues come straight out of Jewish traditions. Christianity, once it embraced the Gentiles, also took some customs from Paganism and made these into their own unique traditions that would be pretty unrecognizable to most Pagans. Who can argue with Hindu virtues of chastity, compassion, honesty, etc. etc. etc.? Who can argue that there is not common sense encompassed in the four virtues of Buddhism? Even Islam has its moments. From the Qu'ran: ""Lo! This Qur'an guideth unto that which is straightest, and giveth glad tidings unto the believers who do good works, that theirs will be a great reward . . ." and ""..be steadfast in prayer and regular in charity. . . .2:110)
I think anybody who was the least bit open minded and intellectually honest would be hard put to find any religion on the planet that didn't promote at least one concept or principle of virtue that we all could agree was both honorable and true. So how is acknowledging such 'pieces of the truth' dishonest?
Meanwhile, I made absolutely zero claim or even comment about anybody's "godlike view of the universe". Also I made no claim about God, but, without going into detail, I do know something about God's advocates on Earth by whatever tradition they identify themselves.
But if you make no claim about God, how do you know that the claims made by His/Her/Its advocates are silly?