Which religion is correct?

[Marxist Germany]

I am a follower of Jesus Christ and His Catholic Church.

[Matroyska]

for me, the very title of this thread highlights the problem with the whole charade. as Stephen Roberts put it, ‘you’re already an atheist for 999 religions. i just go that one step further.’
to reject many versions of an omniscient creator and select your very specific one to defend to the death is ridiculous. it’s likely that only the the place where you were born and raised determined which arbitrary imagining of this deity you believe in in the first place. and almost none of the arguments i’ve ever heard supporting the idea of a god are at all specific to one religion.
the only conclusion that you can reasonably draw, IMO, is that they’re all equally incorrect.

[The Alma Mater]

for me, the very title of this thread highlights the problem with the whole charade. as Dawkins put it, ‘you’re already an atheist for 999 religions. i just go that one step further.’

That's Stephen Roberts

[Boxing Ice Cream Sellers]

Of course it is the Polynesian tribe who were right all along

https://youtu.be/t11JYaJcpxg

(Turn on subtitles)

[Baloo Kingdom]

No, we cause plagues, viruses, and disasters as a result of our sin. God is like a parent, they'll let you get yourself in trouble, but they'll warn you of the consequences.

i mean "natural disasters" why wouldnt god reveal himself to the world? send jesus 2.0, justify himself, everyone will convert to christianity, religion wars will end.

Because God values choice, and he gave us the choice to sin. Forcing anything upon us would be a strict violation of his ideals. And God does reveal himself, people just aren't good at finding him

[Punished UMN]

for me, the very title of this thread highlights the problem with the whole charade. as Dawkins put it, ‘you’re already an atheist for 999 religions. i just go that one step further.’
to reject many versions of an omniscient creator and select your very specific one to defend to the death is ridiculous. it’s likely that only the the place where you were born and raised determined which arbitrary imagining of this deity you believe in in the first place. and almost none of the arguments i’ve ever heard supporting the idea of a god are at all specific to one religion.
the only conclusion that you can reasonably draw, IMO, is that they’re all equally incorrect.

Now that's an extreme statement. There are religions out there that aren't even internally coherent.

[Sanghyeok]

i mean "natural disasters" why wouldnt god reveal himself to the world? send jesus 2.0, justify himself, everyone will convert to christianity, religion wars will end.

Because God values choice, and he gave us the choice to sin. Forcing anything upon us would be a strict violation of his ideals. And God does reveal himself, people just aren't good at finding him

I won't question the part about God revealing himself- given that I don't really know how much we should use empirical evidence to discuss the existence of religious phenomena or figures. However, I feel you still haven't answered the first question properly- if God really did love us so much, why doesn't he save us from those consequences?

[Exalted Inquellian State]

According to me it is all religions+the big bang+atheism+my stuff minus contradictions-getting to hell for masturbating or being gay.

[The Alma Mater]

for me, the very title of this thread highlights the problem with the whole charade. as Dawkins put it, ‘you’re already an atheist for 999 religions. i just go that one step further.’
to reject many versions of an omniscient creator and select your very specific one to defend to the death is ridiculous. it’s likely that only the the place where you were born and raised determined which arbitrary imagining of this deity you believe in in the first place. and almost none of the arguments i’ve ever heard supporting the idea of a god are at all specific to one religion.
the only conclusion that you can reasonably draw, IMO, is that they’re all equally incorrect.

Now that's an extreme statement. There are religions out there that aren't even internally coherent.

So ? Maybe the supernatural is just really weird.

[Baloo Kingdom]

Because God values choice, and he gave us the choice to sin. Forcing anything upon us would be a strict violation of his ideals. And God does reveal himself, people just aren't good at finding him

I won't question the part about God revealing himself- given that I don't really know how much we should use empirical evidence to discuss the existence of religious phenomena or figures. However, I feel you still haven't answered the first question properly- if God really did love us so much, why doesn't he save us from those consequences?

His salvation from said consequences comes in the form of a gift. And that gift can be accepted or declined at any time. You can decline it now and change your mind later and still get the gift. Or you can accept the gift at first but reject it later. We have to accept the gift in order for us to be saved, and accepting the gift is as simple as faith in him.

[Punished UMN]

Now that's an extreme statement. There are religions out there that aren't even internally coherent.

So ? Maybe the supernatural is just really weird.

That the supernatural may be weird doesn't give it license to do the logically impossible. My prior example of beings predating being already kind of dispels the idea that polytheism makes sense.

[Matroyska]

for me, the very title of this thread highlights the problem with the whole charade. as Stephen Roberts put it, ‘you’re already an atheist for 999 religions. i just go that one step further.’
to reject many versions of an omniscient creator and select your very specific one to defend to the death is ridiculous. it’s likely that only the the place where you were born and raised determined which arbitrary imagining of this deity you believe in in the first place. and almost none of the arguments i’ve ever heard supporting the idea of a god are at all specific to one religion.
the only conclusion that you can reasonably draw, IMO, is that they’re all equally incorrect.

Now that's an extreme statement. There are religions out there that aren't even internally coherent.

that’s true, but at the end of the day whether or not there’s a deity is a binary true-or-false thing, and in that respect every claim that there is one is equally false. but you’re right, some have much more outlandish, extreme or hateful teachings, but that has no bearing on about whether or not their central assertion of a god is true.

[Nuroblav]

Oddly enough, Buddhism. It's support pacifism, protecting the environment and doesn't believe in one higher being. I'm not like a devout buddhist or anything, but it's got some good wisdom there. but in the end, no religion is truly correct because the concept is flawed. (plus, reincarnation makes a ton of sense. It's not like when you die you just lay there in a sea of blackness)

Hehe fair enough

What I would say though is that 'doesn't believe in one higher being' isn't exactly telling the whole story. No creator deity, sure, but there are still multiple devas that are around in scripture (at least I think it's scripture ). That being said, none of them are omnipotent or omnipresent (or really eternal) like in Abrahamic religions. I hope that clears things up a bit more, seeing as it's a common misconception and understable given that not much emphasis is placed on them.

[Sanghyeok]

I won't question the part about God revealing himself- given that I don't really know how much we should use empirical evidence to discuss the existence of religious phenomena or figures. However, I feel you still haven't answered the first question properly- if God really did love us so much, why doesn't he save us from those consequences?

His salvation from said consequences comes in the form of a gift. And that gift can be accepted or declined at any time. You can decline it now and change your mind later and still get the gift. Or you can accept the gift at first but reject it later. We have to accept the gift in order for us to be saved, and accepting the gift is as simple as faith in him.

But given that Christianity itself has had differing interpretations, how can we be sure which is the correct path to salvation? Maybe I accidently take one path and not the other, and suddenly the gift can't be given to me anymore. I feel the greatest weakness of any monotheistic religion is that it depends so much on interpreting any one God's ideals and words.

[Cameroi]

all of them and none of them
what is not known is not known
what exists owes nothing to what we tell each other
(if it did, it wouldn't be a god, now would it?)

the one thing i really believe is not correct is the goodness of wishing to be feared.
but really, whatever sees fit to exist is in no way up to us.

[The Gold Mines]

According to me it is all religions+the big bang+atheism+my stuff minus contradictions-getting to hell for masturbating or being gay.

What the heck?

[The Alma Mater]

So ? Maybe the supernatural is just really weird.

That the supernatural may be weird doesn't give it license to do the logically impossible.

Does not seem to bother you at all when talking about the christian God though.

[Punished UMN]

That the supernatural may be weird doesn't give it license to do the logically impossible.

Does not seem to bother you at all when talking about the christian God though.

What is logically impossible about the Christian God?

[Baloo Kingdom]

His salvation from said consequences comes in the form of a gift. And that gift can be accepted or declined at any time. You can decline it now and change your mind later and still get the gift. Or you can accept the gift at first but reject it later. We have to accept the gift in order for us to be saved, and accepting the gift is as simple as faith in him.

But given that Christianity itself has had differing interpretations, how can we be sure which is the correct path to salvation? Maybe I accidently take one path and not the other, and suddenly the gift can't be given to me anymore. I feel the greatest weakness of any monotheistic religion is that it depends so much on interpreting any one God's ideals and words.

I see your reasoning, however this is a common misconception about Christianity. The only truth that all Christian church's should follow is what has been directly stated in the New Testament. This is undisputed. By following what is said in those books, you get to what I'm telling you about. Salvation comes only from faith, not of oneself, so that no one can boast. That is why I believe what I do.

[Exalted Inquellian State]

According to me it is all religions+the big bang+atheism+my stuff minus contradictions-getting to hell for masturbating or being gay.

What the heck?

I don't really have a name for my religion, so for now we'll use omnism.

Basically, it hinges on the fact all gods are real. Christian gods, roman gods, Indian gods, alien gods. The most important god, the one who influences the other ones, is the one most people believe in, which as of now is thought to be the Christian god. Obviously, Christianity has Satan, so now there is a divide, with the morally just gods rallying to the God, morally evil gods rallying to Satan, and everything else existing as a chaotic, everchanging third side. The multiverse is where these gods live. It contains 100 Trillion universe of varying sizes ranging from 0-dimsional dots to 8-dimensions OOOOOOOGHLAOOOOOOOOOOOOGHLAYOOOOOOOOOOOOOGHLAYOOO- And the multiverse itself is a 9 dimensional bubble. At any given moment Heaven is at the top and Hell at the bottom. People don't go to hell for being atheist, and probably not for masturbating or being homosexuals or eating meat on a Friday or anything that doesn't harm someone else, according to some form of trial. Now, they shouldn't be able to die in Heaven or hell, hut if they do, they usually go to the double version of that. And a double version exists outside the multiverse. Beneath heaven and hell, the dimensions collapse, and revert to either a four dimensional state like our universe or another one. For our entire universe is a subatomic particle in a larger multiverse. If a dream I had years ago is correct, it is an electron in a childs birthday cake, but that's likely not true. There are many levels of this, but at them top is the Inner Omniverse. It contains the final levels of the multiverses. But there's more. There's more omniverses, like an "infinite" multiverse(which is actually just a loop) a shadow realm, and so on. And they are all in the Outer Omniverse, the sum of everything. Now, not every possibility exists at the same time. Some possibilities are made by time travel or universe being reborn. And if you're wondering what's at the bottom of the omniversal ladder, probably true elementary particles.

[Renitalia]

oh my... Im reading through all of these and now I don't know what to believe.

[Insaanistan]

Does not seem to bother you at all when talking about the christian God though.

What is logically impossible about the Christian God?

I’m myself. I sent myself to tell my mom she would give birth to me and I would be my son. Then I preached worshipping me and died. Then I came back because me who is also not me brought me back. Me who is not me sits next to my throne on his own thrown but there’s also only one throne.

[The Gold Mines]

What the heck?

I don't really have a name for my religion, so for now we'll use omnism.

Basically, it hinges on the fact all gods are real. Christian gods, roman gods, Indian gods, alien gods. The most important god, the one who influences the other ones, is the one most people believe in, which as of now is thought to be the Christian god. Obviously, Christianity has Satan, so now there is a divide, with the morally just gods rallying to the God, morally evil gods rallying to Satan, and everything else existing as a chaotic, everchanging third side. The multiverse is where these gods live. It contains 100 Trillion universe of varying sizes ranging from 0-dimsional dots to 8-dimensions OOOOOOOGHLAOOOOOOOOOOOOGHLAYOOOOOOOOOOOOOGHLAYOOO- And the multiverse itself is a 9 dimensional bubble. At any given moment Heaven is at the top and Hell at the bottom. People don't go to hell for being atheist, and probably not for masturbating or being homosexuals or eating meat on a Friday or anything that doesn't harm someone else, according to some form of trial. Now, they shouldn't be able to die in Heaven or hell, hut if they do, they usually go to the double version of that. And a double version exists outside the multiverse. Beneath heaven and hell, the dimensions collapse, and revert to either a four dimensional state like our universe or another one. For our entire universe is a subatomic particle in a larger multiverse. If a dream I had years ago is correct, it is an electron in a childs birthday cake, but that's likely not true. There are many levels of this, but at them top is the Inner Omniverse. It contains the final levels of the multiverses. But there's more. There's more omniverses, like an "infinite" multiverse(which is actually just a loop) a shadow realm, and so on. And they are all in the Outer Omniverse, the sum of everything. Now, not every possibility exists at the same time. Some possibilities are made by time travel or universe being reborn. And if you're wondering what's at the bottom of the omniversal ladder, probably true elementary particles.

That is one of the most complicated things I have read

[Esalia]

None of them.

I just can't see any religion humans believe in being the correct one. Either the evidence behind them is shaky at best, they're so incredibly open to interpretation or have a variety of interpretations (meaning that even if they are correct religion, it only narrows it down to the different interpretations of that religion), or they're contradictory (at least in my interpretation).

There's also a couple of religions/religious interpretations that I don't want to be right (mainly because what they suggest to me is evil), so of course I won't pick them as the correct one. I'm mainly talking extreme versions of most religions, or particular parts of other religions.

[Punished UMN]

What is logically impossible about the Christian God?

I’m myself. I sent myself to tell my mom she would give birth to me and I would be my son. Then I preached worshipping me and died. Then I came back because me who is also not me brought me back. Me who is not me sits next to my throne on his own thrown but there’s also only one throne.

It doesn't make sense if you, as I said, view God as a great man in the sky throwing down thunderbolts, but it does make sense if you think of God as an ousia.