(January 6, 2017 at 10:45 am)Little Rik Wrote:(January 6, 2017 at 10:37 am)FatAndFaithless Wrote: Okay, cool.
Now if you wrote those principles down in a book, and then tried to show other people how this book could improve your life, thanks to these principles and rituals from a mysterious, supernatural 'force'..... then you'd have a religion.
And this religion would represent your god.
Quote:Wrong.
Shiva, Krishna, Jesus and Buddha never intended to start any religion and yet they gave principles to follow.
These people teach spirituality not religions but I guess you wouldn't know the difference.
No, He is correct and you are clearly wrong. You wouldn't even know the names of those entities let alone their teachings had they not been codified into a religion for you to follow. That is the dictionary definition of religion.
The fact is that you did not come up with it on your own, nor was it revealed to you by any "god". You follow a religion, sorry if that makes you uncomfortable but we have to speak to each other with words that have meaning and that everyone understands or else language has no meaning at all. You are a religious person.
If god was real he wouldn't need middle men to explain his wants or do his bidding.