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Postby Tranzoria » Mon Nov 02, 2020 5:36 pm


Wow. Never knew that. Thank you very much for the Information.
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Postby Heloin » Mon Nov 02, 2020 5:37 pm

Neanderthaland wrote:
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I feel like at least one religion would be correct though, even if it isn't mine.

Given the length of human history compared to recorded history, it is likely that even if a human religion were correct, it wouldn't be a modern one, or even one you know about.

Besides, it would almost certainly have been a Neanderthal religion anyway. Bigger brains, you know.

Fire worshippers.

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Postby Infected Mushroom » Mon Nov 02, 2020 5:38 pm

Quite possibly none of them.

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Postby Neanderthaland » Mon Nov 02, 2020 5:38 pm

Heloin wrote:
Neanderthaland wrote:Given the length of human history compared to recorded history, it is likely that even if a human religion were correct, it wouldn't be a modern one, or even one you know about.

Besides, it would almost certainly have been a Neanderthal religion anyway. Bigger brains, you know.

Fire worshippers.

Bah! I hate those guys. They should worship the Holy Wooly Rhino like a civilized person.
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Postby Middle Barael » Mon Nov 02, 2020 5:41 pm

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Arcturus Novus wrote:It gives me some comfort to think Judaism has it the most right, even if I'm not exactly a good adherent. I like the idea of one all-encompassing deity who has made Himself known to so many people in so many different ways, whose followers strive to improve and prepare the world for the day when He welcomes them all into an eternal peace. It's at least partly escapism for me, admittedly, but in days like this it's hard to not want an escape, y'know?


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Postby Ethel mermania » Mon Nov 02, 2020 5:42 pm

mine,

Though mine doesn't have a penalty if you disagree.
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Postby Heloin » Mon Nov 02, 2020 5:44 pm

Neanderthaland wrote:
Heloin wrote:Fire worshippers.

Bah! I hate those guys. They should worship the Holy Wooly Rhino like a civilized person.

They gave me some nice pamphlets, told me all about how the lord and saviour Fire is going to make big changes to the way things work. Besides I'm starting to think that big bright thing in the sky might even be fire.

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Postby Sundiata » Mon Nov 02, 2020 5:48 pm

Christianity, specifically Catholicism. It doesn't make sense to me that God would divide himself into a series of Gods. It also doesn't make sense for God to be anything other than the highest form of anything there is, especially love.
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Postby Saiwania » Mon Nov 02, 2020 5:50 pm

Insaanistan wrote:If there is a God, why would they need aid? Shouldn’t a God be one who has ultimate power, on who needs no partners in controlling the universe?


It would be possible for there to be one all powerful God, that purposely created sub-Gods that're inferior in power and rank but still all powerful relative to mortals to do stuff so that the One doesn't have to intervene or directly do anything themselves. That seems to be the model the Tolkien Legendarium went with.
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Postby Tranzoria » Mon Nov 02, 2020 5:50 pm

Sundiata wrote:Christianity, specifically Catholicism. It doesn't make sense to me that God would divide himself into a series of Gods. It also doesn't make sense for God to be anything other than the highest form of anything there is, especially love.

Does that mean Islam and Judaism are also correct? Or all Monotheistic?
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Postby Tranzoria » Mon Nov 02, 2020 5:51 pm

Saiwania wrote:
Insaanistan wrote:If there is a God, why would they need aid? Shouldn’t a God be one who has ultimate power, on who needs no partners in controlling the universe?


It would be possible for there to be one all powerful God, that purposely created sub-Gods that're inferior in power and rank but still all powerful relative to mortals to do stuff so that the One doesn't have to intervene or directly do anything themselves. That seems to be the model the Tolkien Legendarium went with.

Like Demigods, like the Mesopotamians, Egyptians and Hawaiians.
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Postby Neanderthaland » Mon Nov 02, 2020 5:52 pm

Sundiata wrote:Christianity, specifically Catholicism. It doesn't make sense to me that God would divide himself into a series of Gods. It also doesn't make sense for God to be anything other than the highest form of anything there is, especially love.

It doesn't make sense for a perfect god to do anything at all. Since a perfect god would axiomatically have no deficiency.
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Postby Huben » Mon Nov 02, 2020 5:56 pm

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Postby Luziyca » Mon Nov 02, 2020 5:57 pm

If any religion has to be correct, it has to be Deism: some God used a towel as a cum rag, threw it on the side of a road, and we are the fungi growing from the discarded cum rag.
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Postby Suriyanakhon » Mon Nov 02, 2020 6:01 pm

Neanderthaland wrote:
Sundiata wrote:Christianity, specifically Catholicism. It doesn't make sense to me that God would divide himself into a series of Gods. It also doesn't make sense for God to be anything other than the highest form of anything there is, especially love.

It doesn't make sense for a perfect god to do anything at all. Since a perfect god would axiomatically have no deficiency.


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Postby Ethel mermania » Mon Nov 02, 2020 6:17 pm

Saiwania wrote:
Insaanistan wrote:If there is a God, why would they need aid? Shouldn’t a God be one who has ultimate power, on who needs no partners in controlling the universe?


It would be possible for there to be one all powerful God, that purposely created sub-Gods that're inferior in power and rank but still all powerful relative to mortals to do stuff so that the One doesn't have to intervene or directly do anything themselves. That seems to be the model the Tolkien Legendarium went with.

everyone deserves a day off
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Postby US-SSR » Mon Nov 02, 2020 6:26 pm

If by "true" is meant "most in accordance with the world as it seems to me" then I'd go with Buddhism. It's the world religion I'd choose if you held a gun to my head and made me choose one anyway.
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Postby Sundiata » Mon Nov 02, 2020 6:44 pm

Tranzoria wrote:
Sundiata wrote:Christianity, specifically Catholicism. It doesn't make sense to me that God would divide himself into a series of Gods. It also doesn't make sense for God to be anything other than the highest form of anything there is, especially love.

Does that mean Islam and Judaism are also correct? Or all Monotheistic?

I'd have to say that the Abrahamic religions are the most correct as their position on God's nature is the most correct. Judaism and Christianity being more correct than Islam.
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Ethel mermania wrote:
Saiwania wrote:
It would be possible for there to be one all powerful God, that purposely created sub-Gods that're inferior in power and rank but still all powerful relative to mortals to do stuff so that the One doesn't have to intervene or directly do anything themselves. That seems to be the model the Tolkien Legendarium went with.

everyone deserves a day off

God worked for six days straight for 24 hour shifts then only got rest on the 7th. God needs a better union.

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Postby Sundiata » Mon Nov 02, 2020 6:52 pm

Neanderthaland wrote:
Sundiata wrote:Christianity, specifically Catholicism. It doesn't make sense to me that God would divide himself into a series of Gods. It also doesn't make sense for God to be anything other than the highest form of anything there is, especially love.

It doesn't make sense for a perfect god to do anything at all. Since a perfect god would axiomatically have no deficiency.

God acts according to his perfect nature, not from deficiency.
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Postby Ethel mermania » Mon Nov 02, 2020 6:53 pm

Heloin wrote:
Ethel mermania wrote:everyone deserves a day off

God worked for six days straight for 24 hour shifts then only got rest on the 7th. God needs a better union.

it just goes to show management works just as hard as labor.
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Postby US-SSR » Mon Nov 02, 2020 6:56 pm

Sundiata wrote:Christianity, specifically Catholicism. It doesn't make sense to me that God would divide himself into a series of Gods. It also doesn't make sense for God to be anything other than the highest form of anything there is, especially love.


God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Ghost? Just sayin'; but you do realize many Muslims think of Christians as polytheists?
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Postby Sanghyeok » Mon Nov 02, 2020 7:07 pm

US-SSR wrote:
Sundiata wrote:Christianity, specifically Catholicism. It doesn't make sense to me that God would divide himself into a series of Gods. It also doesn't make sense for God to be anything other than the highest form of anything there is, especially love.


God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Ghost? Just sayin'; but you do realize many Muslims think of Christians as polytheists?


Quite a few of my Hindu friends say the same thing.
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US-SSR wrote:
Sundiata wrote:Christianity, specifically Catholicism. It doesn't make sense to me that God would divide himself into a series of Gods. It also doesn't make sense for God to be anything other than the highest form of anything there is, especially love.


God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Ghost? Just sayin'; but you do realize many Muslims think of Christians as polytheists?

What the Muslims believe they may believe. It’s not polytheism as far as I’m concerned.
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Postby Albrenia » Mon Nov 02, 2020 7:12 pm

An interesting aside, do you think there's many people who are 'culturally' religious, but do not actually believe the religion they follow is factually true?

I first noticed people like this out of the anti-sjw crowd online, who started as mostly Atheist but increasingly extol the virtues of Christianity as the only hope against Islam (which they fear).

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