(July 31, 2010 at 12:59 pm)superstarr Wrote: Then how can anyone not in the same religion as others, deny an existance of any other God or Gods from other religions? I'm not saying that any of them are real, but religious people claim that faith (or a form of faith) is truly what tells them that there is a sort of a God or Gods regardless of evidence. It's probably the matter of simply choosing which one to follow, but then how would you know that you've got the right choice? I don't think it'll matter because they all probably have the same reasons.
If you ask people in different religions if their god is the same god as in other religions, you'll find that the proportion which would say yes as opposed to no is more or less the same as the proportion of atheists who say that they don't have a belief regarding god as opposed to those who say that they do. In other words most would say yes, it's the same god.
Religious people don't argue over which god is the true god, what they may argue about is god's attributes. But they are in agreement that it's the same god. Muslims and christians and jews all acknowledge the same god, but differently, and hindus have different "gods" which are, in fact, according to their belief, aspects of the same one god, which they themselves would tell you is the christian / muslim / jewish god. The names differ because the language differ. Allah means "the god".
It's the same with anything else. You and I might disagree on something to do with the earth, but we'd never dream of saying that we're talking about two different earths.
