RE: What gives a religion the right to claim their fantasy is correct and the rest false?
November 16, 2016 at 10:41 am
(This post was last modified: November 16, 2016 at 10:42 am by vorlon13.)
I'd also take issue with the topic.
It's a 'Religion 101' thing. If a given religion did not assert they alone hold absolute, literal, inviolate, complete and perfect truth, then it is a false religion, and they are admitting as much.
If a given faith fails to lay out a case, no matter how specious*, laughable*, absurd*, comical*, contradictory* or just plain nuts*, that they alone have Gods ear, can guaranty Salvation®, can instill happiness and a sense of superiority over all other faiths, they got nothin'.
*Mormonism springs to mind
It's a 'Religion 101' thing. If a given religion did not assert they alone hold absolute, literal, inviolate, complete and perfect truth, then it is a false religion, and they are admitting as much.
If a given faith fails to lay out a case, no matter how specious*, laughable*, absurd*, comical*, contradictory* or just plain nuts*, that they alone have Gods ear, can guaranty Salvation®, can instill happiness and a sense of superiority over all other faiths, they got nothin'.
*Mormonism springs to mind
The granting of a pardon is an imputation of guilt, and the acceptance a confession of it.