Every religion is based on essentially the same concept, even borrowing from each other. The story of Jesus alone was borrowed from many of the ancient Mediterranian religions predating the Christianity. Every religion has miracle stories in both their religious texts, as well as claims of miracles happening in the modern world. They all involve prayer of some sort, and the belief of divine intervention. So far nothing really sets them apart from one another.
The more interesting point would be, how can one be right, and not the other since they all have equal effects? How is Islam any more legitimate as Christianity, or Christianity than Judaism? You have your basics, following in God's plan, according to his will for your life, miracles, inner peace, trying to get to a paradise after death, etc. All of their religious texts claim to be devine, and despouse the others as false. All of the followers claim to know the truth, and the way, yet presumably only one can be right.
That leaves only so many outcomes available;
A) All religions are false, and if their is a God, then it is nothing like we would imagine, and would be more in line with being just nature itself, neither good, nor bad, loving, or hating. One of the commandments in the Old Testament is "Thou shall have no other Gods before me." That would lead many to believe that there is indeed more than one. Of course Christians will say that it means not to put anything before God, but it doesn't specify, and if it's divine text, then I'd hope that he wouldn't leave so much to interpretation. But that is for another time.
B) There are many Gods. Throughout your life, you're on a collision course of finding the right God for you. Each God is trying to beat the others out apparently. Every other God is wrong, for everyone, no matter what. So you jump around from religion to religion until you find the one that you were supposed to belong to. Sounds like a difficult concept, but its about as likely as some of the stuff in religion I guess.
C) There is only one God, yet different paths to take for that one God. Yet the problem with this logic is that why would there be such differing rules, and guidelines? So much hatred of people on the other paths? So this is the least likely option here.
Now where does this leave Atheists? They don't believe in a God. Are they the outcasts assuming that a God or Gods do exist? Or would they be closely related to Laveyan Satanism in which you are your own God?
Even Spiritual Satanism, in which you would actually worship the deity of Satan as your God has the same stories as the other religions from it's followers. The only difference is there isn't a Dogma.
Or maybe the Buddhists are right, and it's about finding who we really are. There is a little piece of something in everyone of us, and the answered prayers come from that, and the God we're worshipping isn't real at all.
Or maybe, it's a mixture of all of them. Maybe you have to find yourself, before you should even be thinking about which God you want to cling to. And then, stop putting others down for their religion. I'll make a wager, we're all headed straight to hell anyways. Thinking that believing in the right thing doesn't remove the responsibility of trying to make this place better for everyone, and if God was smart, it wouldn't be that easy.
Just something to think about.
Published by Anthony Ashcraft
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