Steve3007 wrote: ↑March 10th, 2021, 6:15 amI was just telling you how, in my experience, a lot of religious people answer the point that there are many different religions in the world. They propose that those religions are all different ways of looking at the same thing. They look for common features of the religions as evidence, including common features of their various moral codes.LuckyR wrote:Congratulations on a classic retrospective rationalization.Steve3007 wrote:I think the answer to this is that those 4300 (or however many there are) religions are all different ways of looking at the same underlying thing. Metaphors about blind people feeling elephants are sometimes invoked.
Yes, Hindus assert that all the beings that humans refer to as God are aspects of the one God, and they accept all of these names, because all of the Gods they label address the one God. That's their view, with which I wholeheartedly agree. So although I choose to honour God using the name of Gaia, I believe in Mithras, Ishtar, Quetzlcoatl, and the other 4296 too. For me, it's not "God is great", but only "God is God". I don't think Steve is presenting "a classic retrospective rationalization", but only an opinion, one that is not uncommon.