(April 6, 2018 at 2:19 pm)Bahana Wrote: What's interesting to me about all the different sects of Christianity is that it is a prime example of humans using their own reason to create a belief system. Look at how varied some denominations are. Some will allow a homosexual to lead a church while others will not let a known gay person through the door. They all use the same Bible but use their own reason to decide what parts to emphasize and how to properly interpret scripture. It's not like some supernatural being is communicating them to tell them exactly what to do. If some Christians here believe that is the case then feel free to provide evidence of your communication with this being.
Different views of the same umbrella label isn't a patent owned by one religion.
Sunnis and Shiite Muslims don't agree on politics. You won't get a Tibet Buddhist to agree with a Chinese Buddhist and a Chinese Buddhist wont agree with a Japanese Shinto Buddhist.
Religion, WORLDWIDE is a horrible way to conduct political diplomacy, even within the same umbrella labels within the sub sects. It isn't that you can rid the world of any religion, to try would make you a monster.
I think the important focus, is to face more humans to consider that morality isn't in an umbrella label, or it's competing sub sects, but in that our species morality is in OUR GENES.
Theists of every label ARE capable of doing good and being good and non violent. I simply don't buy that a religion is needed to do that, or that it is some morality handed to humanity down from us from a magical place. Our behaviors, good or bad, are not in old mythology of any label, but in our genes, in our evolution, good or bad. It is still up to humans how we choose to interact with each other.
