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Old 09-20-2009, 04:03 PM   #72 (permalink)
Freebase Dali
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You gotta wonder how accurate a religion is when multiple portions of its believers have opposing beliefs.

If Christians are free to believe their own interpretations of their religion are true, and others false, then the same validity is extended to even other religions and the sects therein. The whole religious community, regardless of denomination, believes they are the truth... Believing your faith is the true faith and believing that all others are not, well... that lends the same credibility to every religion that believes in their own.

But the single most consistent factor, the common denominator between all these different beliefs, is that they all have the same amount of faith in their religion.
If you cancel theirs out, you cancel out your own.
Where your god may have shown you his evidence, theirs obviously has done the same thing. When you really look at it, it's just a matter of people. People and a belief. The belief itself is the truth, no matter what that belief entitles.

To say your truth is more valid than someone else's, when it's based on faith, is self-damning and ignorant, and it speaks volumes about how shaky the foundation of religion really is.
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