(October 19, 2012 at 10:57 am)Akincana Krishna dasa Wrote: [It's true that the claim of authoritative exclusivity that exists in many religions can't all be true. Still, there may be all kinds of things in various religions that are still true besides that. Ever taken a history of religions class? The similarities that exist in many religious traditions are incredible.
It seems to me that religious diversity tends to support the truth of God. Lots of people, from lots of places, that never met or each other or even have a language in common are getting a similar idea about a supreme God. To me, that's interesting evidence for God, not against.
It's because they are all copying off of each other. Not to mention, they are still exclusive. The ancient Egyptian religion has a ressurection story, as does Christianity. This may be evidence of copying, but it is not evidence of a ressurection because the accounts are different in a number of ways. Religions copy the same basic concepts off of older ones, and let 'god' fill in the contradictory details (I mean contradictory between religions, but there are internal contradictions as well).
(October 19, 2012 at 10:57 am)Akincana Krishna dasa Wrote: In the Bhagavad gita, Krishna reconciles things like this:
BG 4.11: As all surrender unto Me, I reward them accordingly. Everyone follows My path in all respects, O son of Pritha
So whether someone is worshiping the Muslim God or Christian God or Jewish God, whether an aborigine in the jungle is worshipping a totem pole out of respect for the powers of nature, or whether a scientist is trying to discover the laws of nature - in various ways, different people are respecting and trying to approach and understand the powers higher than us, according to our respective realizations.
Unfortunately for you, Krishna is vastly outnumbered by those theologies that state otherwise. You are using a baseless assertion; logic dictates that contradictory religions are indeed contradictory.
(October 19, 2012 at 10:57 am)Akincana Krishna dasa Wrote:(October 19, 2012 at 10:28 am)Ryantology Wrote: In the sense that your definitions represent the total ignorance of nature and physics necessary to take any of that seriously, I can agree with it.Specifically, do you feel those definitions contradict knowledge of nature and physics? Or are those definitions simply unsupported by science?
Remember the moon and sun distance thing from earlier?
John Adams Wrote:The Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.
