Do you believe in God? - Page 71 - Religion, God, and Theology

To the question, "Why are you a bigot?" ... the true believer says:

"Well, in the 1st Century they said homosexuality was immoral, lightning was an angry god, earthquakes were god's vengeance, leprosy was caused by demons, etc. They said that God informed them about this so it would be wrong to not believe it. That's how we do religion."

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FellaGaga-52

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Gnosticism -- an inner knowing of spiritual matters -- as long as it respects reality ... is a legit thing in my book. But being an ipso facto, presumptive, axiomatic, self-evident messenger with a given manifest destiny of spieling some orthodoxy on the nature of god. ... not so much.

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If the vast majority of people in India are Hindu, the vast majority in Iran are Muslim, the vast majority in America are Christian ... what does that mean about the religions? Doesn't it mean that god isn't behind the belief systems, the culture is? The cultures create the religions and its people believe them. Over and over and over ... no matter the religion.