RE: Do religions represent God?
February 3, 2017 at 10:14 am
(This post was last modified: February 3, 2017 at 10:19 am by MTL.)
(February 3, 2017 at 9:38 am)Little Rik Wrote:(February 3, 2017 at 9:17 am)MTL Wrote: I am Agnostic. I allow for any possibility.
What I do NOT do is treat theories as if they are fact,
or state them as if they are factual.
Theories can turn into facts MTL.
All you have to do is to put these theories into practice.
If the practice reflects the theory then is valid.
If not then is not valid.
However if you never try you will never know.
I'm sorry but that is just inane.
Theories do NOT "turn into facts"....and it certainly does not occur by "putting them into practice".
Theories are either proven or disproven....or they simply remain theories.
Religion has been putting their theories "into practice" for thousands of years,
unchecked, but it still doesn't make that theory valid.
For a long time, people cut off the feet of the dead, buried the corpse face-down, drove a stake through the heart,
and placed an iron cage over the top of the grave...because they theorized that this would prevent the body from returning as a vampire.
And that is just one of thousands of folk practices....so many have gone on for centuries,
and they're all absurd.
Just because they put their theory into practice for a long time, didn't make it valid.