Religious Irony 101, page-51

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    Well yes, I thought I made that clear that regardless as to what we believe it's only a relative and somewhat prejudiced truth. That includes me.

    The difference is that with Christianity, Islam and others beliefs, there is a suspension of disbelief and they are very insistent that we all follow their religious canon that was invented by some human or humans in the past as their best guess as to what these scriptures meant. They were wrong, misguided, in error, so that became the fate of Christians, Muslims and others for good, cast in stone without any hope of going back and reexamining the scripture in the light of todays understandings.

    Take the irony associated with faith and love for God for instance. One might imagine that to love God it can be done anywhere, including inside the church, temple, mosque, meeting hall and that along with moral education another way to know God is by unlocking the complexity of His Creation, via science.

    But when we do, when it can be shown without the slightest doubt that Genesis Creation is a symbolic story, that global floods did not occur in human history, that evolution is a fact and yet still fits the Creation story, somehow a tribal prejudice called faith, trumps common sense and logic.

    The worst example of this is seen in Christianity and Islam. They insist that their Prophet is the one and only, when in fact true religions have been around since before the dawn of history. Everybody has a valid religion, but extremes of prejudice and scriptural misunderstandings prevent people from seeing this.
 
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