(June 17, 2016 at 6:26 pm)madog Wrote:(June 17, 2016 at 3:48 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: Those convinced they don't have a religion, do in fact have one,
So you have millions of religions then? .... (assumptions) you don't believe in zeus? you don't believe in fairies?, you don't believe in Yetti? you don't believe in (insert other other things you don't believe in here).
From one perspective, one angle, yes. For example, the Islam Atlas and I follow are different religions as they appear outwardly for sure. Isis and Sufis follow different Islam as well. Wahabis have their own concept of God that differs from rest of Muslims.
So Islam really one religion? So you begin to say yes, but these are sects. So as I say why not Abrahamic religions all one religion but different sects.
I would simplify. There is falsehood, there is the truth.
False or False or False or False or False or True. That equates to true.
However True and False and False and False. That equates to false. So if Islam includes all sects devoted to it. It's a false religion by definition, even if it has truth in it or if one sect is upon truth.
So I would say all false paths are that, following falsehood. The truth whatever it is, is going to be different and distinct from all those paths, and the way of arriving it and following it will be different.
We can talk about labels of false paths, and which ones come under which label, but at the end, I think simplifying the case, that they are all inwardly following falsehood is true. This doesn't mean there is no truth followed along with that.
But there is something common in that they all at the end are arriving falsehood. I would say there is a wrong intention in all that.
I would say the truth and those following it, is something distinct from all this.
I would simplify the equation and say there is in reality two religions, light and darkness, the path arriving and being guide to the truth and and the path arriving at and be guided to falsehood.