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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	[quote] [b]DL-44 said:[/b]Which negates your previously laid out list of options.[/quote] Not necessarily. Jews and Christians are held to different standards, and so would be examined in different 'sections' before consigned to a final location. I mean, you wouldn't go to Club Fed for serial murder, right? To me, that just stands to reason. Which brings me to your next point... [quote] [b]DL-44 said:[/b] It is also my response to the threats of eternal damnation for being a non-beleiver. If there is a god who granted us this gift of reason, surely he'd want us to use it moreso than he would want us to follow things that don't stand to reason...[/quote] In Dante's [i]Inferno[/i] there is a place for true intellectuals, virtuous and forthright souls who never believed - in other words, they had no 'God hole'. I believe Plato was one. Anyway, the only punishment in this place was the complete and total absence of God's divine presence. I guess to most here that would seem like a fantastic thing, considering they don't acknowledge God's existence anyway... quote: [quote] [b]DL-44 said:[/b] If the tenets most accepted in christianity are true, then those are distinct possibilities - reich and rhetoric aside![/quote] Once again we get into the question of motivation vs. appearance. Sure, these folks [i]appear[/i] to adhere to 'Christianity', but when was the last time Christ donned a pointy white hood and screamed 'white power' (especially considering, according to some evidence, Jesus wasn't white)? I don't believe God listens to rhetoric, but looks into the heart, and sees the truth that's there, be it benign or malignant. quote: [quote] [b]DL-44 said:[/b] But with so many options out there, and so many vastly different religions....there is just no way they all can equate. I mean...there are more than the big three religions out there after all, and even those three have some gigantic differences in the view of what god is, what god wants, and how to please god/get to heaven....It seems to me that to say they're all the same in the end is nothing more than a way of not dealing with the differences between them. Though I guess you're saying that the differences are the fault of human interpretation, whereas the originating 'force' was the same in all cases?But then of course, there are the more truly different religions that don't rely on this whole 'one god' concept, and would be much harder pressed to be able to make them in any way relatable... [/quote] Again, not necessarily. Greek and Roman mythologies begin with a single god and goddess. Some Wiccan tenants refer to God & Goddess both, &c. I think with a little examination, one could weave a very interesting tapestry with all the diveristy of these myriad faiths with common threads between them all. ~~~ Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. - Albert Einstein [img]http://www.danasoft.com/sig/AsylumScrawls.jpg[/img] Loading...
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