How different religions get started?
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Re: How different religions get started?
It's a great cartoon on the faith in the Mother of the Gods. The religion centered on Her was the major competition to early Christianity in Rome. Just think what the modern world would be like if males were expected to publicly castrate themselves at major festivals to show their devotion to the Deity, and that it was required for any who wanted to become priests.
At least no priest dedicated to the Mother of the Gods was likely to be a pedophile!
At least no priest dedicated to the Mother of the Gods was likely to be a pedophile!
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Re: How different religions get started?
The original source of western religion starts with revelations by God to Abraham starting off the Jewish religion and after Isaac did the dirty on Ishmael presumably a separate but paralled arab religious branch, I think still practiced in limited areas of Northern Iraq.
The next thing that happened was along came a new Jewish prophet Jesus who had his own ideas of what God wanted the human race to do so started off the Christian movement splinter off the Jewish line. This then went through many iterations to become the variety of Christian sects we see there today
In the mean time the Arab line promoted by the descendants of Ishmael eventually came across a prophet of their own - Mahomet -who had some pretty rigid ieas about how God wanted the world to be run which became Islam. This has subsequently gone through a few iterations of its own to become the various Islamic sects of today.
Throughout history the pursuit of all of these various competitive lines has resulted in extremely violent actions which has brought us to our current armed stand off and conflicts in todays world.
My point is that all of these religions have the common origin of the Old Testament and share most of the same basic tenets. i.e. One god, heaven for the faithful, hell for the sinners, prophets, angels, miracles etc. etc. These so called separate religions should really be seen as variations on a common theme within the context of a single basic religion. If we could get to that stage there might be some possibility of the development of reasonable tolerance for each others views.
It is also interesting to note that, as important as we believe ourselves all to be, the sum total of all of these Abraham variants remains a minority of the total world population. We make the most noise about it all but we (with our Moslem and Jewish brothers) are in the minorityof the world population. Maybe it's time for all of this to be abandoned in favour of Bhuddism which at least has a more logical basis in the assumption of meritorious behaviour leads to successive reincarnations leading to an ultimate state of perfection.
Any way that's my philosophy in a nutshell It makes more sense than the current narrow minded sectarian views
The next thing that happened was along came a new Jewish prophet Jesus who had his own ideas of what God wanted the human race to do so started off the Christian movement splinter off the Jewish line. This then went through many iterations to become the variety of Christian sects we see there today
In the mean time the Arab line promoted by the descendants of Ishmael eventually came across a prophet of their own - Mahomet -who had some pretty rigid ieas about how God wanted the world to be run which became Islam. This has subsequently gone through a few iterations of its own to become the various Islamic sects of today.
Throughout history the pursuit of all of these various competitive lines has resulted in extremely violent actions which has brought us to our current armed stand off and conflicts in todays world.
My point is that all of these religions have the common origin of the Old Testament and share most of the same basic tenets. i.e. One god, heaven for the faithful, hell for the sinners, prophets, angels, miracles etc. etc. These so called separate religions should really be seen as variations on a common theme within the context of a single basic religion. If we could get to that stage there might be some possibility of the development of reasonable tolerance for each others views.
It is also interesting to note that, as important as we believe ourselves all to be, the sum total of all of these Abraham variants remains a minority of the total world population. We make the most noise about it all but we (with our Moslem and Jewish brothers) are in the minorityof the world population. Maybe it's time for all of this to be abandoned in favour of Bhuddism which at least has a more logical basis in the assumption of meritorious behaviour leads to successive reincarnations leading to an ultimate state of perfection.
Any way that's my philosophy in a nutshell It makes more sense than the current narrow minded sectarian views