All religions by definition disagree with others and believe the core beliefs of the other religions to be false.
Not necessarily. God by definition, as the creator of the universe, does not abide by the universe's laws. Thus it's possible to say two opposing things about God which are both true, and nothing you can say can be perfectly true as the limited language can't describe the unlimited.
“No God before me” can have, and does have in the history of Christianity, three possible interpretations.
the exclusivist one (Evangelical churches mainly): the Christian God is the only God, you have to confess him directly to be saved.
the inclusivist one (mainly the Catholic church, and some Protestants), the Christian God is the only God, but you can unknowingly pray him when you pray an other God within other traditions, in other words you can be Christian without knowing it.
the pluralistic one (other Protestants), most religions are equally valuable, but if you are Christian you should pray only the Christian God.
Of course this is just a model, all positions are deeper than that and most people mix two or even the three models. I don't know where the Orthodox Churches stand.
For myself, I tend to be somewhere between the second and the third model.
Or seriously enough to think about it, not just swallow everything. Christianity is a religion who praised critical thinking for centuries because the Bible is a book which should be studied. It was written by intelligent people who made a point to let contradictions and diverse points of view in order to let the reader decide.
The Bible isn't the immutable word of God. The Word of God is Jesus-Christ. That's what taught Christianity for 19 centuries before American evangelicalism invented the heresy of biblical inerrancy.
Biblical literalism is an invention of 20th century evangelicalism. It's not because you find one or two verses which seem to condemn something that this thing should be condemned forever; and in the case of homosexuality, the verses used by some Christians to condemn homosexuality aren't clear at all. Thus homophobic Christian bigots condemn homosexuality not because they're Christians, but because they're bigots.
Yeah. I'm a very religious Christian and never knocked a door and I believe homosexuality isn't a sin. And I know atheists or at least agnostics who actually believe that there's an homosexual propaganda trying to “homosexualize” people.
I don't think De Gaulle hated the English, but he surely despised them. He despised almost everyone though, and maybe he despised the French more than anyone else, calling us “calves” or mocking our love for cheese, for example. Yeah, he was an asshole.
Almost everyone is Republican, but we also have a Republican Party, which isn't more Republican than the others, this name makes zero sense. It's the successor of the party of De Gaulle, but I'm quite sure De Gaulle wouldn't like what this party became.
There are a few monarchist movements, generally far-right-leaning, like the French Action. But they are very small and divided (there are two candidates for the throne, and different kinds of monarchies), so nobody takes them seriously.
I (mainline Protestant) don't hate American evangelicals. But I don't want to be associated with people hating queer people or denying women basic rights like abortion.
Antizionism ≠ opposition to the Israeli politics. One can be Zionist and against this genocide, against colonization, against Netanyahu and for a Palestinian state. Antizionism is an opposition to the right of self determination for the Jewish people, and that's antisemitic.
The worst? I stopped to do research after my PhD and now, I forgot everything. Dumb as a rock AND without any useful knowledge of my very peculiar subject.
Zloubida @ zloubida @lemmy.world Posts 7Comments 358Joined 2 yr. ago
You damn scientists! Some things need not to be discovered!