Let's play a game of pretend.
Pretend I'm an alien, an extra-terrestrial, from somewhere else in the Universe.
Mu name is poca and I come from pocaplnt.
I've been observing the Earth and its human inhabitants for a while and noticed they are more or less split into groups.
Some groups are called countries and there are some frictions between adjoining countries.
Some groups are called religions and there are some frictions between adjoining religions.
Countries, I can understand. They are territory, land, resources.
Religion, I cannot.
Where I come from, we don't have religions.
Your religions seem to be based on the fact that one or more divine beings exist in some strange dimension or mental state or alternate reality, or whatever.... there seem to be too many ways of looking at the thing.
The religious people actually believe that these beings exist. Well, each religion has its own set of deities, so each believes that their own exist, but not the others.
This means that either all of them exist, or none, or just one set... in which case, which one?
You guys seem to have a group that goes for the "none" scenario. These seem to be the closest to my own species. We don't have this concept of deity. I have traveled far and wide and found no such thing out there in the Universe.
Perhaps it is in some other dimension outside this Universe, but how did you come to possess that knowledge? How would such deities contact you?
My question is basically, how did you humans come about to have the information that these deities exist?
Why did you split them up or make up new ones?
Why do you brood animosity just because someone doesn't believe in the same deity set as you?
cheers,
poca
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Pretend I'm an alien, an extra-terrestrial, from somewhere else in the Universe.
Mu name is poca and I come from pocaplnt.
I've been observing the Earth and its human inhabitants for a while and noticed they are more or less split into groups.
Some groups are called countries and there are some frictions between adjoining countries.
Some groups are called religions and there are some frictions between adjoining religions.
Countries, I can understand. They are territory, land, resources.
Religion, I cannot.
Where I come from, we don't have religions.
Your religions seem to be based on the fact that one or more divine beings exist in some strange dimension or mental state or alternate reality, or whatever.... there seem to be too many ways of looking at the thing.
The religious people actually believe that these beings exist. Well, each religion has its own set of deities, so each believes that their own exist, but not the others.
This means that either all of them exist, or none, or just one set... in which case, which one?
You guys seem to have a group that goes for the "none" scenario. These seem to be the closest to my own species. We don't have this concept of deity. I have traveled far and wide and found no such thing out there in the Universe.
Perhaps it is in some other dimension outside this Universe, but how did you come to possess that knowledge? How would such deities contact you?
My question is basically, how did you humans come about to have the information that these deities exist?
Why did you split them up or make up new ones?
Why do you brood animosity just because someone doesn't believe in the same deity set as you?
cheers,
poca
