(November 10, 2017 at 12:53 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: Everywhere you go - every culture - not one said to blindly believe in the Creator.
And I am finding everyone one of them emphasize on a way to perceive the Creator and know it exists.
There is not one remaining culture without a proof of God.
The Sky for example emphasized by some cultures as God, or Highest Heaven (they didn't use the word "God") but that word for the Creator, and talk about goodness with respect to levels of heavens. That is proof for those who reflect.
And the manifested in all signs, the "All" in some cultures, by which they see God in everything.
etc, etc,
One of the best is Native and their mythology of spirits in nature and animals, etc. They are all shown to be ways to God just as we are a way to God, and it was the natives who had Prophets teaching this and emphasizing this, though Quran touches on it, it was not the most emphasized thing in the Quran.
It is beautiful how essential truths remain in each culture....and those truths all remind and prove God.
No culture is without wisdom and no culture doesn't have a hue from the breaths of God.
Mystic, we say the same thing to you as we do Christians and Jews and Hindus and Buddhists.
Of course religions exist, we don't deny the existence of any religion. We do however DOUBT our species perceptions of what they think is real.
Alpha Male here, and Catholic Lady would claim "wisdom" comes from the God of the bible. Jews would claim "wisdom" comes from the God of Yahweh. Hindus would claim "wisdom" comes from the Vedas and Baghavad Gita. Buddhists would claim that "wisdom" comes from Buddha.
The naturalist would claim that our curiosity for discovery is EVOLUTIONARY. The naturalist would say that our ability to be cruel or compassionate is also evolutionary. The naturalist would say that our ability to believe bad claims based on false perceptions is also explained by nature, not magic.
We don't doubt our fellow human's desire to want to do good and be good. We do see lots of good in our fellow humans. What we doubt is that good is coming out of old mythology, old books, or holy people. We see human behaviors as being in us, as individuals in our evolution.
You can certainly find stories of empathy and compassion in every religion, sure. But that does not mean there is a divine source handing it to humans. Our ability to be good and do good is not magic. You either do good or you don't.
There is not one nation friend or foe alike, that does not have hospitals or prisons. That says to me humans form groups to survive, and can be successful based on that mutual cooperation, but be totally wrong about where they think their success is coming from.
