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I have read the Koran, the Upanishads, the Gita and the various Buddhist text.
There are so many differences between religious ideas that it is simply laughable to say “They all teach the same thing.
Exhibit one: Buddhism and Hinduism believe that the universe is not real. Every thing we see, everything we feel is an illusion. The concept of Nirvana is a perfect vacuum and they mean an absolute lack of anything type of vacuum.
Judaism, Christianity, Islam and various forms of Animism (Nature worship) all believe that the universe is real and can be interacted with in areal way.
There is no way to harmonize those two positions. They are mutually exclusive.
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13For He rescued us from the domain of darkness, and transferred us to the kingdom of His beloved Son, 14in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
15He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. 16For by Him all things were created, both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things have been created through Him and for Him. 17He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together. 18He is also head of the body, the church; and He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that He Himself will come to have first place in everything. 19For it was the Father’s good pleasure for all the fullness to dwell in Him, 20and through Him to reconcile all things to Himself, having made peace through the blood of His cross; through Him, I say, whether things on earth or things in heaven.
- Colossians 1
An absurd assertion (as the article correctly points out). While as an atheist, I'm on the "outside looking in" when it comes to the various religions of the world, I'd have to be either blind or willfully ignorant not to acknowledge the very real differences between them.
The author, Peter Kreeft, is someone I greatly respect. It is because of his writings that my husband became pro-life.
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The Christian Church is in competition with other religions because they refer to them selves as a religion.
I do not know why they insist on calling them selves religious.
Maybe it is because they believe that man has to have a religion of some kind, so who is going to join anything with out a religion.
Did Jesus use the word religious except when he was referring to the false Church leaders of his day?
Religion comes from the word ritual, i have heard the worshipers of the pagan Gods were famous for ritual.
James used the word religion one time.
James 1:27
Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
How many times times does any minister even read the above scripture, yet religion is all you hear about when Christianity is talked about.
If some one is in competition with whores would it not be assumed they are also whores?