I think religions are only attempts to assign attributes to the creator of the universe. We all worship the same God whether we know it or not! What I mean by that kind of blasphemous statement is best understood by a metaphor. Imagine a model (God) is being fitted for a suit of clothes (the religions) by freshmen student tailors at the local university.
Well after a few days all the students have their suites (religions) ready of the model (God) to try on. None fit perfectly, but some are nearly perfect. And the worst ones are like a potato sack!
Meh. This is an old idea.
I think the original is about
Blind men and an elephant <--clicky this:
Well of course being a Christian I feel that my students suit fit’s the very best! The cut and style is nearly perfect.
So you see even though the other religions do not describe God more closely they are not as right as my religion is. I choose the Hebrew God (rather God chose me). I hope this makes some sense, although it won’t solve many problems perhaps it will shed some light on my beliefs.
The point of the anology is that you are just as blind as any of the other men so you cannot tell if you're particular religion is any better than anyone elses and that god is probably more than what you think he is from the little part of him that you have investigated.
From the wiki article:
quote:
Ramakrishna Paramahamsa used this parable to discourage dogmatism
"A number of blind men came to an elephant. Somebody told them that it was an elephant. The blind men asked, ‘What is the elephant like?’ and they began to touch its body. One of them said: 'It is like a pillar.' This blind man had only touched its leg. Another man said, ‘The elephant is like a husking basket.’ This person had only touched its ears. Similarly, he who touched its trunk or its belly talked of it differently. In the same way, he who has seen the Lord in a particular way limits the Lord to that alone and thinks that He is nothing else."
bold added for emphasis
Do you see how for you to go on to say that your suit is the best fit is what the analogy was trying to argue
against?
Huh? No?
and by the way
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What is that supposed to be?
Now, I've seen from your other posts, especially in the science threads, that you are getting some heat from the other posters because of you errors and now you getting the persecuted complex.
Imagine that someone comes to you to debate the Bible and they start a claim off with this:
"When Abraham came down from Mt. Siani with the metal tablets from god that had the 8 commandments on them and gave them to the egyptians,... blah blah blah"
How would you expect people to react to that? I mean, it contains so much error. That's what your posts in the science threads looked like. And you come off with such confidence and arrogance that people are definately going to jump on you.
My advice is to calm down, and be hear to try to learn something, and don't act like you know what your talking about when you really don't.
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