All Religions are the same

[KensPen]

I think it's funny how much animosity is created debating which is better....

Look at the Greek Gods Mythology.....

How different is it REALLY to Christianity.

Christians believe in ONE god. BUT there are angels and archangels. These are not simply dead people but creatures that predated humans and lived in heaven. Apparently they are pretty powerful too, for Lucifer rebelled against God and came pretty close to winning.

So how does this differ from Zeus and the lesser gods.....

And

Zeus had a son, born of a mortal woman,
he performed many miracles,
did many great things,
was betrayed and died a painful death,
and was later raised and brought to Zeus...
that sounds kinda familiar.

[bryant69]

1. This is a productive discussion

Boy. Yep, we got President Bush in the White House, taking us to war on fictitious reasons, trashing the environment, trashing the economy, and one year to get him out or else we'll invade Syria. So obviously the best thing we could spend our time doing is driving all religious people out of the Democratic party by mocking their beliefs. Brilliant!

Bryant
Check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com

[KensPen]

4. who was mocking?

I don't know how I would describe my personal beliefs...
I do believe in something.
I was trying to point to the Universal aspects of religion that often get buried when arguing the diffences.
If there is a god it would be beyond comprehension, and I think God, Allah, Zeus, are all aspects or faces of some universal truth.

And I made this thread in response to the many other threads I have read about Christianity in this Forum.

[bryant69]

7. Perhaps i underestimated you

But certainly you recognize that if you say that Christianity and Greek Mythology are essentially the same, you have to expect someone to assume you are saying that all religion is fictitious.

[Terwilliger]

8. well wait...why were the Greek gods fictitious?

are you mocking them?

[Walt Starr]

9. I recommend you look into Mithraism

Lots of similarities there.

[LeahMira]

17. In many ways...

But certainly you recognize that if you say that Christianity and Greek Mythology are essentially the same, you have to expect someone to assume you are saying that all religion is fictitious.


In many ways they are exactly the same.

They generally have a leader/hero/god. That person lived quite a while ago and some, many, or all the details of his or her life are fictitious. They have been embellished over the decades and centuries, with a little added here and a little left out there and a few details borrowed from somewhere else.

Religion is not fact. It isn't supposed to be. It is supposed to be truth.

[Terwilliger]

5. it's mocking to suggest that the gods of disparate religions are...

one in the same? That's mocking?

[Walt Starr]

11. It's not mocking, it's called Comparitive Mythology

For that subject, I recommend Jospeh Campbell as the foremost authority ever to have lived.

[Terwilliger]

15. I ddin't think any of it was mocking

but the suggestion was that it was "mocking" to suggest that there is actually only one god even though those religions seem to believe in different gods.

[HereSince1628]

18. Agree, and this is the wrong forum unless there is a political

or public policy theme to the post

[PVnRT]

2. Mmmmmmmmmm flamebait

And has nothing at all to do with politics, but oh well.

I suppose it doesn't matter to you that most, if not all people of some kind of faith at this website do not spend time debating "which is better," does it?

[mmonk]

3. Bet this thread

doesn't last long. Interesting post however.

[Walt Starr]

6. Well, the myth of a dying god is fairly unicultural

The dying god is usually resurrected or reborn in some form.

You can see it in the myths of Osiris who dies and is reborn as Horus.

Odin hangs on the Tree Of Life, Yggdrasil, for three days in order to bring knowledge of the Futhark runes to humanity.

If you read The Golden Bough by James George Frazer you can see other examples:

http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=3623

There is also a subtle version of it in the myth of the Buddha where The Buddha achieves Nirvana but becomes reincarnated.

[HereSince1628]

10. Where's the politics or public policy issue?

In the rules Non politics and public policy threads are invited to go to the lounge or the meeting room.

[Ardee]

13. a reach but nevertheless

As Bush runs the nation motivated by his particular religious bias perhaps a discussion of religion and its place in life is pertinent........

[KensPen]

14. I have seen

NUMEROUS topics about Christianity in this Forum the past couple days,
so I assumed this was the appropriate place to post this.

[K-W]

12. Lots of things pop up in alot of cultures

Afterlifes of course, an interesting one is vergin births, messiahs are also common, in some cases these are a result of common human interests, in some cases its a result of borrowed or mixed stories. Religions werent developed in a vacuum. They mixed and intermingled. Also, in the case of any religion that spread over other cultures, like christianity, it adopted charecteristics from the places it spread to. Lots of christian stories are adapted pagen stories. People in lands that were converted didnt just stop telling thier old stories, they just adapted them.

[Blue_Chill]

16. All religions are the same, no.

All religions are based on the same god filtered thru different cultures, maybe. I've beleived that for a while now.

[TreasonousBastard]

19. Like the blind men and the elephant...

we all have bits and pieces of a larger truth.