Life as a Deist

[genkaus]

Oh for fucks sake dude. You got me. You have defended the uniqueness and total originality of all religions. You mentioned two religions among thousands and didn't address my point whatsoever. Good job. Most people would've read my use of the words "every religion" the way I meant it - as just a generalized figure of speech ... you know, like the way someone would say, "every rose has a thorn" - not always true, but a valid generalization.My point was that all religions are nearly identical, however, since you seem intent on nitpicking a point I wasn't even trying to make, I'll now play along with you.


So, what exactly are you getting at? Please do tell me what your point is?
Are you trying to say that religions are all very unique to themselves and that things like blood sacrifice and godly human attributes are only unique to one religion? Maybe two? or are you just going to scold me on my use of generalizations in common speech?

Would you like to debate being factually correct?
Did you want to take a few posts to defend Buddhism? Perhaps I offended your delicate nature and you feel that I didn't give the orient a fair shake?
Which do you feel had a more original and unique religion? The Egyptians? The Mayans? The Christians? The Muslims? The Jews? The .... hell, you pick.

I'm so anxious to hear about this grand point you want to make about how wrong I am about the duplication and worldwide imitation of religion.
How foolish of me to try and use generalized speech to describe something that is generally identical with very few exceptions.

Please teach me oh great nit picker.

The point is, I don't know much about a lot of religions. The only religion I'm intimately familiar with is Hinduism. The ones I know the basics of include Buddhism, Jainism, Christianity, Islam and Judaism. I'm arguing from an extremely limited set and yet, your statements aren't applicable to half of them. The problem here is the typical western arrogance where you see everything that does not come from your culture as indistinguishable and interchangeable.