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Post by Terrapin Station on Jul 29, 2018 9:28:08 GMT
How do you know any religion is true though? 
You evolve past religion with philosophy and science and realize that no, no religion is true. |
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Post by Aj_June on Jul 29, 2018 9:48:34 GMT
How do you know any religion is true though?
You evolve past religion with philosophy and science and realize that no, no religion is true. You make things complicated to understand. Rewrite your sentence without double negative. |
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Post by Aj_June on Jul 29, 2018 10:09:58 GMT
That's why there are thousands of religions. Human beings all want answers to the big questions in life.
How do you know any religion is true though?
ITTY, you are trolling, boy, but I will answer the topic.
It is true that all gods were born in imagination of human beings and thus no god is true. That is true. However, the definition of false is key here. If a religion is false because the god is false then yes any religion that relies on belief in god(s) is false. But if you define religion as a system of lifestyle/belief that makes some people better off then religions are not false at all.
Now your main question is "How do you know any religion is true though?". That's a simple question and can be easily answered. Some people rely on faith and just accept that their religion is true. Faith is equal to knowing for them. This could be a result of either fear or not trying too much to search for truth. As a child you simply take words of your parents. Some people may believe that their religions are false but still follow it because of benefits it provides. Religions make men better off than women so that is 1 reason for certain men to follow a religion. A priest may follow his religion because it's his living. So even if a priest has doubt about his religion he may continue to follow it without requiring a definite answer whether his religion is true or not. A swami/guru/religious conman may follow religion because he is good with words and can fool people. And many people follow religion because they believe that their religion is true. Some can even have visions and other clues. Weak minds believe in things and sometimes things can become self fulfilling prophecies. Some people can believe in religions because they are stupid and believe that some scientists discovered a flood in some part of world and they will quickly believe that it is the same flood that their religion talked about. And so on....
Last of all religious people are necessarily interested in knowing if their religion is true or not.
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Post by Terrapin Station on Jul 29, 2018 11:22:58 GMT
You evolve past religion with philosophy and science and realize that no, no religion is true. You make things complicated to understand. Rewrite your sentence without double negative. If someone asks "Is any religion is true?" The answer is "no." This is then a true statement: "No religion is true." If you shorten that, it becomes "No. No religion is true." Or you can write it with a comma instead of as two sentences: "No, no religion is true." That's all the same thing. |
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Post by Aj_June on Jul 29, 2018 11:40:44 GMT
You make things complicated to understand. Rewrite your sentence without double negative. If someone asks "Is any religion is true?" The answer is "no." This is then a true statement: "No religion is true." If you shorten that, it becomes "No. No religion is true." Or you can write it with a comma instead of as two sentences: "No, no religion is true." That's all the same thing. Cool. Thanks for explaining. |
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Post by CoolJGS☺ on Jul 29, 2018 11:49:49 GMT
What are the big questions of life?
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Post by Catman on Jul 29, 2018 13:31:08 GMT
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Post by Terrapin Station on Jul 29, 2018 15:34:31 GMT
What are the big questions of life? Where do you get a free lunch? Where do all of the people living in this rural area work? Why do so many people walk so slow? |
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Post by lowtacks86 on Jul 29, 2018 15:37:21 GMT
What are the big questions of life? Why can't someone make a diet cola that actually tastes good? |
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Post by captainbryce on Jul 29, 2018 16:27:50 GMT
Evolution and religion in the same paradigm...that’s an interesting thought.
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Post by Catman on Jul 29, 2018 16:33:20 GMT
What are the big questions of life? Where do you get a free lunch? Where do all of the people living in this rural area work? Why do so many people walk so slow?More importantly, why are slow people always walking in front of Catman? |
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Post by thefleetsin on Jul 29, 2018 16:39:08 GMT
he who holds the power to eternal life is not only tooler but fooler and he's more than likely doing your girlfriends and your wife.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 29, 2018 20:59:10 GMT
Religion likely has served some kind of adaptive purpose, but I think that humanity is moving away from that, because with all the knowledge now available at our disposal, it is increasingly difficult to remain 'blissfully ignorant'.
One believes in religion not because one knows it to be true, but because one thinks that there are grounds for not knowing it not to be true. But it's difficult to sustain that foundation in an information based culture.
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Post by Aj_June on Jul 29, 2018 21:33:54 GMT
Religion likely has served some kind of adaptive purpose, but I think that humanity is moving away from that, because with all the knowledge now available at our disposal, it is increasingly difficult to remain 'blissfully ignorant'. While the percentage of people following religions has been declining in western countries and will continue to fall in considerable future, there is only a limit till it will fall. It is true that humans have greater access to knowledge but that may not work against religion in all cases. Having greater access to knowledge will also put intelligent manipulative people in a better situation to create newer forms of religion. There will always be disparity in intelligence levels of different human beings. Relatively more intelligent people can often impress the less intelligent ones to follow their agenda. Religions will probably become more philosophical in future. The percentage of religious people will probably fall but the world will never be rid of religion. |
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Post by goz on Jul 29, 2018 22:56:31 GMT
Do you have that many cats? |
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Post by Eλευθερί on Jul 29, 2018 23:07:43 GMT
Religion likely has served some kind of adaptive purpose, but I think that humanity is moving away from that, because with all the knowledge now available at our disposal, it is increasingly difficult to remain 'blissfully ignorant'. One believes in religion not because one knows it to be true, but because one thinks that there are grounds for not knowing it not to be true. But it's difficult to sustain that foundation in an information based culture. Who do you mean by "humanity"? The religious populations are reproducing at faster rates than the nonreligious. |
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Post by them1ghtyhumph on Jul 29, 2018 23:20:19 GMT
That's why there are thousands of religions. Human beings all want answers to the big questions in life.
How do you know any religion is true though?
Pretty much proves no religions are true |
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Post by Rodney Farber on Jul 30, 2018 16:12:42 GMT
Evolution has given us the will to survive (and multiply). As Elmer Gantry said, "People everywhere are the same in one thing - they're all afraid to die."
So people like Jiim Bakker, Peter Popov, and many others have discovered, there's money and power to me made by promising them eternal life. And so religion was born.
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