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6/6/2007
12:44:26 pm EDT
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Understanding The Falsity In False Religions
Author: David Singelyn Source: Boise State U. The Arbiter (ID)
Title: UNDERSTANDING THE FALSITY IN FALSE RELIGIONS
Our president has made some fascinating comments in the recent past regarding “false religion,” referring to the Islamic faith.
What should our response be to all those false religions scurrying around out there? You can’t cluster-bomb mass deception, or shoot a patriot missile into a bogus belief. The only effective weapon of change the human race has over ignorance is very slow, and does not go “boom!”
Ideally, we are taught truthful ideas that have proven worth, handed down from elders to their children. A key element is filtering out that which is untrue or does not work, and refining the lessons to replace those items with that which is true.
People are not born Christian or Muslim, or any other religion. They are taught these ideas from early childhood, and surprisingly few have the individuality to question their training.
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| The Necessity Of Making A Judgment | Jun 8th. at 10:48:31 am EDT
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Fred Lawrence (Kansas City, Kansas) - Email Me
I have studied just about every religion on earth to one degree or another. Eventually, you have to make a judgment as to the truth or falsehood of that religion. You can't remain on the fence forever. If you decide it is false, you must reject it, as I did with both Islam and Mormonism. If you decide it is true, you seem to be logically obligated to convert to it. This seems to be a problem with "Interfaith Dialog." You might gain a deep knowledge and understanding of another religion, but you must eventually convert to it or reject it. If you reject it, you can easily annoy people by saying so. (Long ago, I learned the wisdom of keeping silent. In the Book of Psalms is the line, "The fool says in his heart, there is no God." In many social contexts, only a fool would not keep his doubts "in his heart."
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| ... | Jun 7th. at 6:40:04 am EDT
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Draken (Bronx, New York) - Email Me - Web
There's a hard lesson about the whole "what is real?" question in the later books of the Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind. It boils down to something along the lines of "if you don't think, only feel, then the whole thing becomes appealing. You have to use your judgement to temper what your eyes and ears perceive."
Anyone who does a little research into christian mythology would at least know it's heavily lifted from Egyptian religion and the Epic of Gilgamesh. Such a rip-off without admission constitutes a "falsehood" in my book. The argument falls apart when, say, you actually admit taking material from other religions. :)
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| What Constitutes A False Religion? | Jun 6th. at 10:06:52 pm EDT
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Richard Brownbear (North Wilkesboro, North Carolina) - Email Me
A religion you don't beleive in?
One that disagrees with yours?
One that you decide is based on something frivolous?
The entire concept of declaring another persons religion false is so illogical, so innane, so.....NOT using your brain, it boggles MY brain.
The most likely mindset is one like: "MY religion is the only REAL one because my book/holy writ/sacred epistle STATES it's the only one!
In other words, "My religion has GOT to be the right one, because if it's really not, then I'm wromg and I'll BURN BURN BURN! and I do not want to think about that."
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| Very Good | Jun 6th. at 7:43:23 pm EDT
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ladynoogs (lowell, Ohio) - Email Me
this was a very good and as i read it unbiased article about why certain people will not faulter from what our parents taught us but that we should be careful of what we teach our children (namely intolerance) or at least thats what i got from this article.
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| ... | Jun 6th. at 6:37:57 pm EDT
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Draken (Bronx, New York) - Email Me - Web
"However, when an untruth is delivered to the child’s unquestioning mind as a fact, it can be very hard to shake later on."
That would explain the rise of fundamentalist christianity.
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| Liked The Article | Jun 6th. at 3:40:36 pm EDT
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Shadowbear (Hillsboro, Oregon) - Email Me
Find it interesting that two posters claim the author is either a "republican apologist" or a "democratic hack" after reading the same article.
He is right about one thing - we are taught our religious and social beliefs and it is time we taught all of our children to tolerate and not hate.
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| Good Article! | Jun 6th. at 2:53:36 pm EDT
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Amtehuti (Queens, Florida) - Email Me
This was a wonderful article, REGARDLESS of the man's political teachings. Some people just seem to care more about party labels than intelligence, even in more enlightened faiths like those practiced here...
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| An Interesting Article... | Jun 6th. at 1:38:25 pm EDT
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bigcat (peoria, Illinois) - Email Me
The term "false religions" was coined by those who sought to erase the faiths and rituals of those they wanted to conquer. And it is still being used in much the same way to designate themselves as superior to those who don't worship their way and to designate a person or people as an enemy and\or lesser because of that difference.
When humans finally learn that no one is inherently superior-or inferior because one worships god "x" and the other goddess "y", and the third no god at all, and they do not have to be blond or dark hair- or light or dark skin, rich or poor, gay or straight, or come from a particular country, we will have come a long way toward actual enlightenment. Since many of our problems, religious and political stems from this peculiar arrogance, which has served no useful purpose save to divide people into warring factions seeing a lasting peace only in death.
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| Wow..... | Jun 6th. at 1:27:21 pm EDT
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Medea (Somewhere, Massachusetts) - Email Me
I liked this article.
Education is definitely the key.
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