(February 21, 2019 at 3:53 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: I was actually thinking the similar thing: why aren't most religious people simply deists? I mean if they all claim that "all the religions are true in some way" and that "all gods are the same" then why adhere to Christianity or Islam or Hinduism... I mean if they claim how majority of Christians reject Bible's claims about the world like: flat Earth, six day creation, that the stars will fall from the sky onto Earth, six headed monsters, dragons etc. but adhere to the "God can be seen in the science of the Big Bang" then why not just let go of the rest of the primitive localized beliefs?
I would assume a lot of "believers" are just general practcing deists. A lot of religions do claim that a lot of the other religions are true in some way. Christianity has a lot of variety within it. However, fundamental Christians have a more exclusive view of religion, in that all the other religions aren't true in some way and that they have the one way.
"There ought to be a term that would designate those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus, since the word 'Christian' has been largely divorced from those teachings, and so polluted by fundamentalists that it has come to connote their polar opposite: intolerance, vindictive hatred, and bigotry." -- Philip Stater, Huffington Post
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