Which Religion is the One True Religion?

Moishe3rd wrote:

Here's the problem I have with the rejection of a Creator:
Intelligent Design is a sound scientific theory.

No it is not. Scientific Theory requires evidence and extensive testing. Religion requires neither. Intelligent Design is religion (and against the teachings in the Bible I might add, however it does make 21st century Xtians feel better doesn't it)

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The religious myth is a poetry describing the cosmic mystery in metaphors. Modern science is highly developed, but in the past religious myth and cosmology often substituted for science.. Throughout history science busted myth after myth, and the church had to accept this and form new myths. For example, geocentrism was accepted as fact for centuries by the church, and it formsed their cosmology, but after Galileo geocentrism had to relent to the facts.

Religions still hold onto outmoded myths that have been busted by science, and evolution is a case in point.

There is a place for science, objective reality, and a place for religion, subjective experience. The two have no conflict. The problem arises when people take their metaphorical myths literally as if they were literal truths. Religion taken as poetry describing the eternal cosmic mystery has no conflict with science. How can it?

People who demand analytical answers to the cosmic mystery also are frustrated and miss the point. I return to the analogy of music. It can be extensively analyzed scientificly in all respects but one: it can never explain the fulfillment of music. Writing down music is science, and the enjoyment of listening to it is religion. You can fully appreciate music without knowing one wit about the science of it, and you can understand how its made without the abibity to appreciate it, or you can do both. But you can't enjoy the ultimate expression of music by analyzing it scientificly, and you can't analyze its construction without science.

From a logical point of view religions are in fact no more than theories on how everything came to be, the meaning of it all, and in most cases, they also define what is right and wrong.. generally when a person takes a theory and defines it as fact it is considered a delusion.. i know that sounds a bit harsh, but it does seem a logical conclusion...

In my experience most religious people defend their faith by arguing "i can just feel it" or otherwise present some such emotional evidence. Which is common in delusional patients as well. Also all religions contain the word "faith" which basicly implies that there is no evidence of that religions authenticity, for if there were, you wouldn't need "faith". this is also common in delusional patients. Delusions usually also explain the lack of evidence to their authenticity in order to make more sense.

I think we all understand the reasons why religion is so widespread though. It explains many of the things we cannot. it gives us purpose. removes the fear of death in a large degree. gives us a common understanding of right and wrong and a moral code on which to base a society. prevents us from from feeling compleatly alone, by presenting an ever present spirit/god(s) or some such entity. and most importantly gives us equall value in the greater scheem of things and thus removes much rivalry.

Matter of fact it is such a sweat deal that i wish i were capable of believing. however i can't seem to ignore the fact that there is no logical basis for believing, much less for choosing which religion. I might as well begin worshiping the rubber duck in my tub!! or join a cult..

I should also state however that i am not an athiest... as that implies that i've chosen to believe that there is no god.. which is slightly less yet still ilogical.. I am the only sensible thing... an Agnostic

I apologize for any offence.. I'm mearly stating my point of view..

Thanks again Frank Apisa for taking time to reply my posting.

1-In a nutshell you say that religion is nothing but a superstition.

If it is, than it is a superstition that afflicts a huge majority of humans, they are not fools! talking from a purely materialistic (worldly & democratic) point of view isn't that something worth consideration? as they say U can fool some of the people all the time & u can fool all the people for some time but U can't fool all the people (read overwhelming majority) all the time.

2-U ask "how do you know the universe was "created?"
I ask If you find a wristwatch in the middle of a wilderness what would you think? is it rational to believe that it just came into being all by itself, or it has been just been there always? would you call someone irrational & superstitious who says that this wristwatch must have been designed & manufactured by someone? & it must have been dropped by someone passing by?

3-With all due respect I think that those who deny God & religion are victims of a sort of "Inellectual blindness" that does not let them see the truth.

( No personal offence meant)

I do believe that everybody has a right to have an opinion, If U still disagree it's OK we can atleast agree to disagree)

With all due respect I think that those who deny God & religion are victims of a sort of "Inellectual blindness" that does not let them see the truth.

about the design argument- why could the watch not have been there forever. why do people always presume it was designed.
you cannot compare the universe to a watch. the universe is an event- the watch is not. the universe began to exist at a certain point- when exactly did the watch begin to exist.
if it was designed then was it when the bits it was made of came into existence...

I agree with you there. Neither can I understand why religion and science are in constant conflict. They can co-exist, because religion is a way of explaining who started everything, but science helps to explain how we got to this point.

True religion, no such thing. Religion is a crutch man has devised to support those things that were and are a mystery to him. It is also the crutch that divides us. A true religion is one in which each of us does on to others as we would have them do unto us. And worships God in our own way without the made up trappings of religion. I for one do not need an intermediary to stand between me and God.