The majority of religions or the majority of adherents?
IIRC, about two thirds of religious people are either Christian or Muslim.
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IIRC, about two thirds of religious people are either Christian or Muslim.
Audie
Veteran Member
Just ask the ones who be.ieve them.
Audie
Veteran Member
Increasing number. Went from twelve to
fourteen? Big deal about tiny number,
anyone?
Considering the centuries of violent
oppression, it's quite ironic that some
few American black people should now
be quite hateful and vigorous in their
denunciation of the people and ideology
that oppressed them.
By your figgering.
^ such a thoughtful and objective post
wellwisher
Well-Known Member
Religions are aspects of a 3-D or spatial belief system. Like a 3-D ball, 3-D belief systems can be approximated with a large number of 2-D circles, each with a common center; God, but with each circle at a different angle; different points of view. Each 2-D circle is a rational plane of cause and affect; justifying language based on a given angle. All the circles combined express the full 3-D nature of God.
God is not expressed with just language and logic. It is also a concept that has to be felt, intuitively, from the inside. Faith is the extra or the third dimension, with all religions having this common inner feeling. Each has its own angle to help fill in its share of the full 3-D nature of God. Religious freedom take into account the common center instead of forcing one angle on all.
The left brain is more 2-D; signs, while the right brain is more 3-D; symbols. Science is more 2-D while religion is more 3-D. In science, there is no one theory for everything, but rather science is broken down into specialties, that each addressing an aspect of the whole; material reality. Religion is the same way, since God is not just one linear thing.
In Science there is often more than one theory for the same phenomena, since the consensus theory may express truth, but not the whole truth; exceptions appear. God is even more complex, so we need many more angles to fill in the entire 3-D concept.
Colt
Well-Known Member
Opinions may be sincere but not entirely true.
Given the trends in so many countries, perhaps the non-believers are grasping at the chance to express themselves at last, and which wasn't so common until fairly recently. And hence why so many do feel able to speak out - especially when so many religions still hold on to rather obnoxious beliefs which harm so many too - even if they are loathe to accept this.
PureX
Veteran Member
But what they are expressing is not their non-belief, because that's not really even possible. What they are expressing is their disdain for other people's beliefs. The very thing they are so often accusing and disparaging theists of doing, when in fact, very few theists actually do that.Given the trends in so many countries, perhaps the non-believers are grasping at the chance to express themselves at last, and which wasn't so common until fairly recently. And hence why so many do feel able to speak out - especially when so many religions still hold on to rather obnoxious beliefs which harm so many too - even if they are loathe to accept this.
Can you see the irony, here?
They're opinions. There is no true/false in an opinion.
PureX
Veteran Member
According to who's criteria for truth? Yours, or theirs? Because if it's yours, your resulting opinion is no more credible than anyone else's. AND it's effectively judging apples and grapes by the model of an orange. Which is quite irrational.
CharmingOwl
Member
I guess that is true, although it is also hard not to include atheism and non-belief as religious opinions themselves for the purpose of this. If the Atheists turn out to be right all along, that raises questions about the afterlife.
RestlessSoul
Well-Known Member
BilliardsBall
Veteran Member
They cannot in a logical way, since, for example, the Qur'an specifically says Jesus is a prophet, not God, and the Bible says Jesus is God, King and Savior, and that anyone trusting Jesus for eternal life, has it.
Heyo
Veteran Member
That may be because atheists don't fear to be called out? My guess is that believers know that they can't defend their belief logically against critique from atheists or other beliefs.
There are of course the apologists who do what the masses fear to do. But they also tend to defend their belief against unbelief and rarely against other beliefs.
Which is somehow the titular problem. If believers were able and willing to talk to each other in a constructive manner, there wouldn't be so many beliefs. Denominations and churches could re-join to become a more refined and unified religion.
They can't be all true, if they contradict each other.
However, all of them have some truth in them and all of them have a lot of untruth in them - some just more than others.
So, no single religion has all the truth. Here is comparison of major religions: Hinduism Vs. Christianity Vs Islam
The Kilted Heathen
Crow FreyjasmaðR
In some instances, yes. Religion (in general) is also an expression of community, culture, and one's faith-based world-view (which is not to say that's the only world view one can hold)
Not necessarily. Some religions certainly make more of that than they should, others are more "concerned" (for lack of a better term) with ontological perception.
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Before a deeper reply is given some information is needed; was this a general statement, or one to me specifically?
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The majority of religions. The "Top Three" take up most of the pie chart in terms of people (for now, with the most current information that we have) but that certainly doesn't reflect all religions that exist today.
Altfish
Veteran Member
This question was the one that made me start to question religion(s) and my belief; add to it scientific explanations and the adage "We don't know but are working on it", so it is not a problem to admit there are gaps in our knowledge
Of course they're all true - the entire point of religion is to grapple with life's big questions to develop a coherent and meaningful way of life. The important thing to remember is life's big questions have answers (plural), so the truths one arrives to are a reflection of one's personal or cultural values. It provides those people with meaning and direction, rituals and community. It's an identity - who one is, what one is, what one does. Being true to oneself is important. Conflict arises between different life ways, but such is how things are.
Interesting point. Atheists are equal opportunity critics of any claim that is non-factual, non-rational, and dogmatic. I have noticed some theists will be "hands off" on being critical of dubious religious claims, and i wonder if it is to avoid being critical of anyone who is a believer in some sort of supernatural being. Believers do have a broad range of differing concepts and degrees of certainty, but one thing all theists have in common is the belief that there is some supernatural functioning in the universe. The lack of evidence for any supernatural means that theists do have a motive to avoid challenging any other theist.
What beliefs do atheists have that you are referring to here? Do you accept that non-belief isn't a belief?