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Originally Posted by Phaseolus  GX, you say the world would be a better place without religion, to some extent I agree with you. What about just simple faith/belief in a higher power? |
IMHO, I believe that a simple faith in a higher power is something that everyone believes in, they just define it differently. For atheists, perhaps science, knowledge and the universe are a higher power. Agnostics do not know what it is or if it is but are keeping an open mind and are searching. Most religionists have a faith in a higher power and "know what it is" but believe that theirs is the ultimate truth and everyone else is wrong...
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Most would say the former is an inevitable derivation of the latter, you cant possibly have one with out the other.
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I totally disagree with this statement. If we can get all religions to adopt the following statement, there would no longer be religious strife or wars: "My way is not a better way or the only way but merely another way". There are already non-religious spiritual movements and some spiritual leaders in mainstream theologies that are coming around to this concept that adopt a live and let live policy as far as their spiritual beliefs. I cannot imagine a God who says "there only one way to get in my good graces and one truth and religion x is it" nor can many others. Humanity IMHO is ready to break through to this kind of new spirituality.
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Let me get down to the crux of the subject... Do you think that the ability to survive with out the knowledge/belief of/in some higher benevolent, omnipotent god/protector is within most human beings? Every one is welcome to answer this question please.
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No. Since the beginning of time mankind has yearned for answers as to where he came from and will always seek this out either via science, mysticism, religion, astrology etc.