Green Gaia
Veteran Member
Check this out http://www.apath.org/im_right_youre_wrong.html :lol:
What did you think?
What did you think?
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Why My Religion is Right and Yours is Wrong
- Thread starter Green Gaia
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That was great. 
My little saying is "You don't have to believe they are right, but you should believe they are just as valid."
And while I'm thinking about it everyone points the finger at Christians and says that they don't accept other religions, but I've been in many a Pagan and Atheist circle and heard nothing but insults about Christians and how stupid they are.... it's all the same thing.
Everyone has the right to choose the religion that is the fit for them, because everyone is different. That goes both ways.
Just as it shouldn't be the job of Christians to convert everyone else, it shouldn't be the job of Atheists or Pagans to convert Christians or "show them the light".
The only thing you can do, which this forum is doing well I think, is just share your views, give some facts, and let people reflect and choose for themselves.
My little saying is "You don't have to believe they are right, but you should believe they are just as valid."
And while I'm thinking about it everyone points the finger at Christians and says that they don't accept other religions, but I've been in many a Pagan and Atheist circle and heard nothing but insults about Christians and how stupid they are.... it's all the same thing.
Everyone has the right to choose the religion that is the fit for them, because everyone is different. That goes both ways.
Just as it shouldn't be the job of Christians to convert everyone else, it shouldn't be the job of Atheists or Pagans to convert Christians or "show them the light".
The only thing you can do, which this forum is doing well I think, is just share your views, give some facts, and let people reflect and choose for themselves.
Green Gaia
Veteran Member
*bump*
OctoberTheHottie
Member
Well, I feel it was some what wasted on someone who already agreed with that, but as to not waste the bump, lol, I totally agree, if only we could get some of the 'strong-willed' in some of the other debates to become a little more open-minded.... eh, oh well...
This may be beside the point, but don't confuse strong convictions with closed-mindedness! An idea or belief has to be able to run the gauntlet and come up whole on the other side to be worthy. If someone says that the world is flat, and leaves it at that expecting others just to respect that belief, then that person is an idiot. The world might be flat, but anyone with a brain knows that no one currently believes it, and would therefore make sure to have the necessary oil-tanker-load of reason and evidence to supplement the statement.OctoberTheHottie said:
Green Gaia
Veteran Member
*bumping this up again because I just love it*
Feathers in Hair
World's Tallest Hobbit
That's a fascinating link, and pretty much spot-on how I feel. (Though they articulate it better than I do! )
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No*s
Captain Obvious
I find the website interesting. Every religious contradiction is resolvable, and we are all just as right, except the claim to exclucivity.
It seems to collapse under its own weight, then, because it argues against exclucivity on the basis of logic and accepts a hard law of contradiction. The same logic says we can't all be right. We may not be able to know with absolute certainty we're right, but that doesn't change the fact that we can't all be equally true, unless we throw out the principle of non-contradiction, but that would mean a principle assumption of the article must also be thrown out, and it doesn't make any sense any more.
It seems to collapse under its own weight, then, because it argues against exclucivity on the basis of logic and accepts a hard law of contradiction. The same logic says we can't all be right. We may not be able to know with absolute certainty we're right, but that doesn't change the fact that we can't all be equally true, unless we throw out the principle of non-contradiction, but that would mean a principle assumption of the article must also be thrown out, and it doesn't make any sense any more.
Scuba Pete
Le plongeur avec attitude...
That was a good read.
Master Vigil
Well-Known Member
I'm not even gonna try to debate with No's about this anymore. The last time was just too tiring. But anyway, I definitely loved that site.
The last time was just too tiring. But anyway, I definitely loved that site.
groovydancer88
Active Member
I liked it. It irks me when people claim to know their religion is the 'right' one... everyone can believe, but nobody can know.
EnhancedSpirit
High Priestess
The skins cells have a very lazy existance. They lay around for a few years waiting for their turn to be on top of the stack. Then when they reach the top, they have one day to experience the world. Just ONE DAY then they die and fall off the body.
The heart cells, on the other hand, start working before you were even born. And they continue to work, day and night ( no vacations or sick leave) until the day you die.
Both have very important roles to play. The heart cells are proud to keep the body alive, and the skin cells are proud to protect the body.
Now what if the skin cells tried to convince the heart cells that their God was wrong for making them work and suffer their whole lives. The skin cells believe that their way is the only way. The right way.
The WHOLE body would die if the Heart Cells chose to follow the path of the skin cells. But they have a common thread. They were once all the same (as stem cells), but they evolved into something else. But their DNA is the same, as with every cell in the body.
To the Jews- you are right To the Christians- you are right
To the Islam- you are right To the Buddhist- you are right
To the Taoist- you are right To the Wicca- you are right
AND YOU ARE ALL WRONG.
But there is no right or wrong- IT JUST IS ! ! !
Scuba Pete
Le plongeur avec attitude...
If everybody is right, then who is left? :biglaugh:
painted wolf
Grey Muzzle
Thanks Maize, that is a great list of 'justifications' for why a 'religion' is right compaired to others.
I love how many of them are contradictory in nature, not to mention totally circular.
wa:do
I love how many of them are contradictory in nature, not to mention totally circular.
wa:do
Unedited
Active Member
Reading that made me fell like I was seven and getting yelled at for something I didnt do. He has a good point, but I dont think he makes it all that well and it just seems like itd anger people who dont agree with him instead of having any impact on them. He starts out having a point, but then just seems to rant. Just because theres no proof of one religion being right over others, doesnt mean there isnt one. There are beliefs in different religions that completely contradict others that simply dont allow for them all being right.
I dont look down at people who dont believe what I believe, I think they have every right to believe what they believe and dont try to get them to do otherwise. But at the same time, I do believe what I believe. I just do. I cant believe there is a god and there isnt at the same time. I cant believe Ill be reincarnated and that Ill spend the rest of eternity in heaven (or more likely, hell). I cant believe I shouldnt eat meat, and believe I have the right to do so at the same time.
I respect each and every persons faith, though I dont always respect the person.
I dont think just because someone sees Divinity in a different way, makes that way right. I cant believe in everything. I believe in specific things and if you dont agree with me, than thats fine, but you shouldnt have to feel that my way is right too.
Well theres my rant for the day.
I dont look down at people who dont believe what I believe, I think they have every right to believe what they believe and dont try to get them to do otherwise. But at the same time, I do believe what I believe. I just do. I cant believe there is a god and there isnt at the same time. I cant believe Ill be reincarnated and that Ill spend the rest of eternity in heaven (or more likely, hell). I cant believe I shouldnt eat meat, and believe I have the right to do so at the same time.
I respect each and every persons faith, though I dont always respect the person.
I dont think just because someone sees Divinity in a different way, makes that way right. I cant believe in everything. I believe in specific things and if you dont agree with me, than thats fine, but you shouldnt have to feel that my way is right too.
Well theres my rant for the day.