Major, world religions such as Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, Christianity, Taoism, Confucianism, Buddhism, and Sikhism appear similar in many ways because they talk about the same categories of reality such as: What supernatural power is there? What is our relationship to...
All religions seem to have some version of the “golden rule” – and I don’t mean that “they who have the gold make the rules.” 🙂 🙂 Even when religions disagree on significant issues such as a higher power, they all seem to say we should treat others as we want to...
Some would say that religions are actually say the same things, even if they use different words and even if they think they are saying different things. In this case the topic is no longer related to what they teach, but to their essence. Does this describe what you...
The parable of the elephant is used to teach that different religions just have different perspectives on the same spiritual reality. But if that is the case, there are challenging questions the story-teller (and the one who holds that position) must answer, such as:...
Based on what we know from other disciplines, it appears that all religions are equally invalid because there is no supernatural anyways. What disciplines do you have in mind? Well, science for one. I think most scientists would agree that something supernatural...
One perspective on this topic is that religions may appear different and have different cultural trappings associated with them, but all religions are the same in their essence. Given the role of religion in history, culture ethics, and more, what an important topic! ...
unfinished section: see the section above on ethics and the golden rule also… hypocrisy… vs. their own tenets violence (Jews, Hindus, Muslims, Christians, even atheists) forgiveness? sacrificial...
A key component of all major world religions is that they teach a certain set of content. If you think that they all teach the same thing, what does their teaching agree on? All religions say the same thing about the supernatural Major, world religions such as...
Do you think that all religions are the same? If so, in what way… in the messages that they teach? Or in their essence, regardless of what they teach? All religions actually are the same in essence One perspective on this topic is that religions may appear...
