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To: amessenger4god
The source of monotheism and religion itself is Judeo-Christianity. Common religious concepts like God, worship, ritual, faith, forgiveness, grace, and redemption all stem from the Bible and the revelations contained therein. All other religions are sad and twisted imitations.

It is obvious that in Western societies, being founded on / dominated by Judeo-Christianity, the concepts of Judeo-Christianity will be "common" and seem woven into the very fabric of what it means to be upstanding and moral. But this is nothing more than circular reasoning!

The "holy scriptures" of the Fungo-Fango Tribe on the island of Bango-Bango all contain "common" (for Bango-Bango) concepts such as "Don't eat squid during a Full Moon," "Spit three times if you see a dolphin," "Kill your new-born babies if they have six toes," "Never forgive your enemies," etc.

All other religions (Judaism, Lutheranism, etc.) are sad and twisted imitations - or don't even reference this "self-evident and common" wisdom!

Regards,

10 posted on 06/19/2018 11:00:35 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: alexander_busek

But Christianity is NOT a set of rules like the Fu-Fa folks have.


29 posted on 06/20/2018 4:31:18 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: alexander_busek; boatbums; Elsie
I doubt that the "holy scriptures" of the Fungo-Fango tribe have the same validity as the Judeo-Christian collection of writings that are claimed to be God-inspired, progressively revealed over a period of about a millenium and a half, and perfectly preserved.

This authoritative library of wisdom not only describes human nature to a "T," its invariability across cultures (including that of the Fungo-Fangos), and show how to deal with those human behaviors. It should be mentioned that the Judeo-Christian literature has as well a predictive element of global human history shown to have occurred as prophesied, recorded in non-inspired but reliable records in detail.

Of course, you probably know that the Fungo-Fangos are not a primitive society, but one decadent from a more highly developed state that at one time broke off from others and decided to invent their own rules and "morality"?

It would be instructive to learn why your logic here is not circular in itself, except as you provide a timeline of their history and how their non-Biblical life style came about. What is curious is that they still have some form of recording their ideas, and have some kind of invariable standards by which their records can be compared to be considered "holy."

How was this done apart from the Moving Force that yielded the common "Western" (?) way of dealing with human behaviors?

70 posted on 06/22/2018 10:02:08 AM PDT by imardmd1 (Fiat Lux)
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