The Creation vs Evolution debate thread...

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by August

If there is one central tenent to any monotheistic religion is that God is perfect and man is fallible. All religions, being constructs of man, are therefore fallible as well.

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.

I find those who claim to speak for God as absurd as those who claim that God does not exist. Both are shining examples of Mans arrogance.

I wasn't always of that mind, but I get a little closer every day. My bottom line these days is "I don't know...and I don't think you do either".

[August]

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.