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To: cosmicassassin
how do we know what is the one true religion. Is it Hinduism, Christianity, Islam, or (insert your religion here).

They are either all false or one of them is true.

44 posted on 12/23/2004 9:39:32 AM PST by Raycpa (Alias, VRWC_minion,)
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To: Raycpa

I fully agree in principal, but I would take issue with the word "religion." People confuse "faith" with "religion" and that creates a lot of confusion.

"Faith" is what you believe. "Religion" is an organized group of like-minded believers, or those who profess to hold to certain principals or tenets of a faith.

Faith is personal. Religion is social.

While organized religious activities are important, faith is the key. It starts there.


49 posted on 12/23/2004 9:50:59 AM PST by sleepy_hollow
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To: Raycpa
Why can't all of them be true or none? Both or equally probable as one of them being true.
55 posted on 12/23/2004 9:55:15 AM PST by cosmicassassin (Adblock)
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To: Raycpa

Good point. That is the fallacy of the Bahai faith. The only way you can assert that all religions are really the same is to determine to be grossly ignorant of most of them, to stand at such a distance from any of them that they at least kind of look the same, and then use that as the justification of going about living your own life as you please. It's a hippie version of going to confession in the morning so you can get drunk at night guilt free. It innoculates the soul against the ramifications of there in fact being an infinite personal God.


240 posted on 12/24/2004 8:00:13 AM PST by CThomasFan (GWB 04...living proof that God is still blessing America)
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To: Raycpa
how do we know what is the one true religion. Is it Hinduism, Christianity, Islam, or (insert your religion here).

They are either all false or one of them is true.

What if they are all true? Did you ever read the tale of the blind men and the elephant?

247 posted on 12/24/2004 11:12:00 AM PST by reg45
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