Quote:
Originally Posted by Sailor Steve
The problem that arises is that all religions claim to be constructs of God, and therefore infallible. But if they disagree, only one can be right. And so they censure and finally kill each other, because their God is the only true one.
|
Yep, it's pure human arrogance to actually believe that ones particular interpretation of the supreme being is the only possibly correct one. Don't they realize that religions are divinely inspired and not actually created by divinity? Their writings even say it themselves. After all it's the "Gospel according to John" or, the "Book of Joshua", in other words, a humans interpretation of what God said or did, not God himself saying or doing it. It is the word of God, one (or more) step removed.
But religions are more than just recitations of the word of God. They also serve as a code of conduct and a value system. Both necessary things for any human society to be viable.