(April 23, 2017 at 12:20 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: First all these religions are true in the sense most of what they teach is accurate including Hinduism. They just took different angles and emphasized on different things the Prophets and Guides of theirs emphasized on.
The question is on how to tell the truth from falsehood? Is this the question.
Because you were first asking for what motivates me, and that is a different question.
The way to know is by sharpening your reflection which is like sword you have to both attack by to reach truth and repel falsehood by. There is no other way.
I've talked about how with honesty reflection becomes a means of distinguishing truth from falsehood.
Now if you want to ask what my various reflections are that have lead me to path I am on, that is different.
I believe in the case of Catholic_Lady, and I mean no offense, but from the church clergy structure to the trinity to other things, she has not sharpened her sword and fought for the truth to distinguished truth from falsehood.
Does this mean I believe she isn't a submitter to the truth or lover of the truth or lover of God or believer of God or actually on the wrong path and hence deviated from human nature which is the true religion? No, we all at our own levels. I don't know the level of sincerity she has but she seems genuine to me.
Just needs to sharpen her sword and take the battle for truth up a notch is all.
No, none of them are true.
I would only agree that one can find motifs of calls for kindness and charity in all of them. And in all parts of the history of our planet every label has made discoveries sure. But again, that does not make any one religion true.
Our species behaviors are in our evolution, our ability to be cruel or compassionate, our ability to be curious and make discoveries. Our developed brains and more complex language does not make us the center of the planet or special to the planet or universe.
We know other species display acts of compassion and acts of cruelty. We also know other species can learn too. It is why we can train some lab dogs to do up to 90 commands to act as a support dog to a disabled person.
If you or anyone, a Christian or Jew or Hindu or Buddhist can accept that someone else with a different club/book can do good and be good, and you can accept every nation has both hospitals and prisons, then it should be within reason for anyone reading this to consider that nothing has been handed down to us from a super natural divine place, but our behaviors are natural, not super natural.
