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Every diverse religion claims God’s unique acceptance. If that were not the case , then why even consider joining such a society? It is this religious primogeniture that seals the fate of trying to understand a supernatural relationship with a higher being. If there were truly a difference in a sect’s relationship with deity, then that deity would be less than omnipotent, because it would limit it’s ability to conserve it’s creation.

Custom is a habitual practice that is accepted without reasoning. Practicing religion requires one to be unreasonable.

If religion is primarily a custom, when you compare one to another , they are all the same. Yet each claims a unique status. If one draws a circle a million times, no matter how large or small, it is always a circle. How is it then possible to see one religion/circle as being unique?

Is it acceptable to accept custom without reasoning?

 

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For those of you that have expressed concern that I am saying it is ignorant to practice religion, that is not what I am saying. I am saying you can't use reasoning to make religious determinations.
To reason is to draw conclusions or inferences from facts or premises. Metaphysics is not based on fact. It is based on feelings.
Religion requires faith not facts, because it is impossible to know the unknowable.

Posted by cd, on Monday, 07 December 2009 at 00:48

You make valid points. If one applies honest critical thinking skills and techniques to religion one will soon abandon association with any religion that professes to be “the one”. (And probably abandon all institutional religion.)

God is the god that works for you. Religion should be strictly personal and not dictated by any person or persons. Church poisons religion and as Christopher Hitchens says, religion poisons everything.

Posted by Cliff Dawkins, on Monday, 07 December 2009 at 02:35

I think Hitchens is giving religion too much credit. With or without religion man has historically been very capable of poisoning everything. Evolution and not religion is responsible for these misdeeds. It is true that man has used religion as a reason, but I think religion is in fact the reason we recognize these antisocial acts.

Posted by cd, on Thursday, 10 December 2009 at 23:52


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