(September 17, 2013 at 12:27 pm)John V Wrote: I can't find enough info on the founders of Hinduism to evaluate it, for one thing.
It doesn't have any founders. Came direct from the Brahma or whatever it is to human consciousness. You can see how this is clearly the true religion, or I'd be saying something like this if I were a Hindu.
Quote:No, what one believes reflects the culture they were born into.[quote]
So it's really very lucky that you were born in the culture that believes in the right God then? If you were born in India you would believe in all this business.
Not you though because you were born in the right country, reminds me of this.
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Maybe, but doubtful. Most studies show that, absent poverty, believers and non-believers are pretty close in happiness, with believers slightly ahead in majority believing countries and vice-versa.
Perhaps some of the religious teachings are useful for human happiness when extracted from their supernatural context. There is some good stuff within religion without a doubt but there is a lot of bad stuff as well. Without a religion you can just cherry pick whatever spiritual or moral teaching you like.
Quote:What constitutes evidence is different in different people.
If supernatural miracles, powers or beings exist then there ought to be scientific evidence for them we can all share. As soon as anything operates in the physical universe and it interacts with or does anything we can see it becomes part of the nature that can be observed.