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To: eastforker
Muslims believe theirs to be the ONLY true religion, none other. Sounds like a few Freepers over on the religion board.

Quite right. Though I hope you realize most if not all Freepers take a somewhat less violent approach to expressing disagreement on religious issues.

I've never quite understood those who object to someone believing his is the only true religion.

If two religions disagree, only one can be true. (They could of course both be false.)

What exactly is the point of believing in a religion if you don't think it's true?

To use an obvious example, Jesus himself said only thru Him could people come to the Father. If you believe Him, Jews, Buddhists and Muslims (and atheists) are in trouble.

You are, of course, free to believe He was wrong on this point. But if you do I find it difficult to see in what sense you could consider yourself to be a Christian.

30 posted on 01/07/2015 7:05:12 AM PST by Sherman Logan
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To: Sherman Logan

I never intended that Freepers would kill over their religion. The statement was relating to their frame of mind that everyone else is wrong that doesn’t believe the way they do, and I am talking about the so called christians here, the evangelicals, the baptist, the catholics and a few mormons.


34 posted on 01/07/2015 7:10:36 AM PST by eastforker (Cruz for steam in 2016)
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To: Sherman Logan

“What exactly is the point of believing in a religion if you don’t think it’s true?”

And this is exactly the crux (no pun) of the whole stupid circular PC confusion.

This exact thing happened when my husband and I were taking intro classes at our (last) church. One couple kept apologizing for their Moslem and Buddhist neighbors, saying it would be unfair or offensive to declare that this is the one true religion (Christianity, specifically Lutheran). I got into the argument with your basic question. One cannot be a believer if one refuses to state that it is the one true religion. It’s simply foolishness.

Guess who ended up not showing up at church again.

Guess we offended them. (Seriously, I was just having a logical respectful discussion with them, as were the pastor and other entrants.)


69 posted on 01/07/2015 8:29:00 AM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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