Christianity is not monotheistic, it's a common misconception. According to the bible Yahweh is of the Gods but other Gods are not of Yahweh. Specifically, this means that Yahweh (God) is the head honcho of a bunch of Gods, or more specifically in context that he is the God responsible for the world, and other Gods are subservient to Yahweh regarding this existence. Nowhere in the Christian doctrine is it actually written or specified that God is singular, except in mis-representation of the earlier "evidence" of the bible.
Christianity is not monothiestic.
It's also wrong, and Yahweh is best remembered as a U2 song.
Edit: The word God, in later contexts, should therefor be considered as non-specific of a singular or plural tense.
Well you may be true , I'm not a bible specialist but still it's classed in the monoteist religion box .
It's a monopole anyway as christian pray only one god.
Yup, just most dont know which of their many Gods they are praying too. It's a sort of monothiestic religion - on the grounds it's easier to get believers from Pagans, Druids, Heathens and Infidels if you don't start out on the basis that their religion is wrong. It's far better to tell them "yes there is a river fairy, but she answers to Yahweh.".
I reckon, with enough cynicism, it might be possible to work out why all those people got begatted.
there probably is no god
= there probably is no allah
OMG! can't have that it might offend someone!
so glad that we will see buses with athiest messages now, I'm tired of having people shouting at me on the street about how islam/christianity/whatever is the only way to save yourself and all athiests will burn in hell, and buses carrying posters promoting christianity constantly
what interests me though is we have all these religious people on the streets trying to convert people, but no athiests trying to convert people to athiesm. There are plenty of those kind of religious people in oxford who regularly set up shop with stalls and whatnot, so a plan is afoot
For the record, I hereby implicitly inform those of the Islamic faith that there is no Allah either, and your 97 virgins are men. I can say this with some certainty because my faith, which you must respect and must not offend me, says as it's first commandment "Allah is a gay transvestite who exists even less than Pakistan existed when Kashmir was formed, which raises the question of how can Pakistan claim sovereignty of Kashmir? Infact, he so doesnt exist that there isnt enough non-existence in the universe to accomodate him, so a bunch of nutters believe in him in order that the shortfall of non-existence is accomodated. These people are called 'idiots'.".
If you are offended by this, which you're not allowed to be as it's a matter of faith, then take reassurance in the fact by Allah I am infact referring to all of the various gospels of Abraham, so your much hated Jews and Christians are included too.
Sorry to be so blunty un P.C, but religion is the biggest load of crap ever.
Personally, I'm an Agnostic. However I still stand firm that until some definitive proof can be made, I shall remain to live by my own rules and not blindly follow the commands of a few very powerful people.
Religion causes war, can break relationships, can even be the death of people.
Religion stops you having fun, living life without having to worry about please your 'god'.
That's another thing, if religion were 'real', there'd be one God with one name, and one religion in itself. Not about 2343243243 each with very different laws and beliefs.
That's the whole problem, imo. "Belief". People who do believe constantly try to convince you and the world, in fact, that they are right.
To quote a very wise man, Christianity was law according to politicians.
Believe it or not i'm agnostic too. I'm not aethiest at all.
I just refuse to believe any religion with a documented history [all of them] of the creation of the religion, therefore provenancing it as utter bollocks. The oldest of the Abrahamic religions is Islam, which is collected from the popular stories of Abraham as written by people who decided to put these stories to paper. The stories of Abraham are many-fold and most are lost to time as people didn't put them to paper. They where told orally and spread by trade and bards, and suffered greatly from a phenomenon we call Chinese wispers. When you read the Khoran, and indeed all subsequent interpretations of the fairy tales, what you are reading is somebodies interpretation of these ancient stories.
Moving on from Christianity, Judaism and Islam - there are other religions too.
There's Hindu and Buddism, both of which can't make up their mind what is right and wrong.
Then there's the one that makes most sense of all (well, it at least achieves it's stated purpose), Pastafarianism.
I firmly believe that all of the existing religions should be classified a class A narcotic, or at the very least should be illegal under the age of 18. Religion should be subject to the same kind of advertising contraints as tobacco companies and should not be tolerated in any modern, forward-thinking, society.
But that's true. These three are religions. Pagan beliefs, that usually have >1 gods, aren't. Religion's main distinctive features are that it tells you what's the development "trend" of the world (like gods kingdom on earth -> judgment day) and gives you some goals. In pagan beliefs you live as you want using the powers of whatever god/spirit you like.
- You can beleive in god without joining any religion
- Technicaly a religion doesn't need a god to be a religion
- That's not for you but the religions are not restricted to jews, muslims and christians
- There's not one clear definition of what a god is or should be. Somes are lightyears away from the Christians' one.
I like the saying "the devil is in the details" when referenced to religion, in a basic overview they are all the same thing (be nice to each other), but when you start to look at the details we have crusades and suicide bombers, or should that be "the devil."
As for that story (I read it on BBC News) I liked this quote:
But Stephen Green of pressure group Christian Voice said: "Bendy-buses, like atheism, are a danger to the public at large."
This kind of thing really annoys me, why are Christians, and lately Muslims, allows such expore on mainstream news. Whenever something happens in the world there is always a Bishop or Priest or other religious extremist with a view or words of condollence or whatever. Why are these dangerous homocidal maniacs given credence in our media? They have no place spouting their filth on serious news programs, yet we seem to tolerate religious commentators on any significant news story.
Possibly because we are supposed to be a Christian country and despite the power numbers parking bottoms on seats in church on Sunday morning, I suspect a large percentage of the country still practise some form of Christianity.
Personally I feel religion is just a money maker (when I used to go the top church members were always getting new cars, houses, TVs, holidays etc. on the churches credit card) and should be taxed like every other business. But that would be hit by uproar, much like a book about some Muslim chick (married to Muhammad or some such), it was fiction and supposedly made Muslims sound violent and unforgiving, which "is the opposite of their nature", the book was banned over fears of violent backlash.
Religion only divides us as the sooner people stop believing in the tooth fairy, Santa Clause, the Easter bunny and God the better.
Islam actually followed Judaism and Christianity. Judaism predates Jesus (obviously) but it's unclear by exactly how long (some estimates say up to 2000 years). Jesus arrived in the year Zero, apparently, and people started following him around a bit. The four Gospels that we know (and a bunch we don't) were written several decades (again unclear how many) after Jesus' alleged visit and, after a lot of arguing and biffo and selective editing and omission of several competing Gospels, the religion of Christianity (as we know it) was formulated & codified in the 4th century. Mohammed, seeing a gap in the Middle Eastern market, built on the foundations of both & kicked off his competing franchise in about the 7th century (possibly while high). It's done pretty well for itself, but unfortunately seems to attract more than its fair share of backward, misogynistic, lackwitted murderous loons. But hey, so do many franchises of this kind. Tell two people they're in possession of the Ultimate Truth, but make one guy's Truth a bit different to the other guy's Truth, and watch the freakin sparks fly!
Look, all religions have a fascinating history - but they're all lies.
Those who do not bow to the Great Galactic Squid (blessed be His inky discharge) will have their souls eaten by sperm whales, excreted, finished off by tiny annyoing crabs, re-animated and then eaten by whales again. However, if you raise your voices in praise, the Great Galactic Squid (hallowed be His all-seeing giant staring lidless eyeballs) will enfold you in his infinite tentacles of love.
it's mainly the BBCs fault, it's obsession with allowing the religious/ethnic 'minorities' to dictate what they want, and their utter insistence on having a greater proportion of those people on our screens compared with white athiests.
Hankstar - very well put. Although the real extremists to watch out for now are the hardline christian fundamentalists slowly gaining more and more political power in the USA
Some of the things that religions make younger people do, have you seen on the news were a religious flogging of a (I think it was) a 16 year old boy? Things like that are totaly stupid...
These are the same people who are killing doctors who preform abortions because abortions are murder... there goes the logic train DINGDINGDIGNDIGNDIGNDIGNDIGNDIGNG
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