(June 24, 2010 at 12:45 pm)SleepingDemon Wrote: Getting the right religion and right god is a crap shoot within itself. The problem with religions is that they are bi-products of predecessors. Every religion that exists today has cannibalized some other religion, that's how religions work. Group A takes what they like from group B and makes their own group C. Christianity and Islam adopted a lot of their fables and figures from existing religions to make the conversion process easier. Most of these earlier forms were transitional so converting the locals was just as efficient as eradicating them, not to say that religious purging didn't happen, because it certainly did.
Do you understand that science works this way too? When I was a theist the fact that religions borrowed from each other was simply proof that the god concept was being perfected. Some religious people have a very loose god concept and choose a religion based on the people in the church; they don't feel they have the "right" god so much as they have a servicable god concept that works for them.
Tacky and fr0d0 seem to be those types of theists to me (correct me if I'm wrong). God can be seen as a concept that is ever studied, never fully understood. Science is similar but deals only with the natural world; the only one that is real in my opinion. Nature is ever studied, never fully understood.
Praise Atheos and the IPU(BBHH),
Rhizo
