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Rate Religion
    #28562743 - 11/30/23 07:23 PM (1 month, 27 days ago)

I would put this as a poll but im shit at doing that kind of shit

Lets just say you had to rate your top five relgions, either in terms of most benefit to society or in terms of least harm, what would they be.

Perhaps even includce in your post some reasoning as to why.

Top 5 most beneficial religions for me would be

1. Christianity - for its ethics, its compassion and its founding of western civilization

2. Buddhism - its introspection, its ethics, it deeply interesting metaphysics and its predisposition towards peaceful coexistence

3. Hinduisim - its crazy deep stories, its intropection, its compassion, its variation in weirdness and its basic respect for nature

4. Skisim - all of the above and you get to carry around a sacred knife lol

5. Judaism - its historical significance and its adhenreance to timeless basic principles of ethics and godliness.

I can elaborate on each one, but id like to know youre top 5 and why.


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Re: Rate Religion [Re: thetruthsohelp] * 1
    #28562939 - 11/30/23 08:49 PM (1 month, 27 days ago)

Christianity did not create western civilization. Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans did.

Just look below St. Peter's Basilica...



and in front of it...



That is an Egyptian obelisk.

The most Egyptian obelisks in the world are in Rome near the Vatican. Mostly from the circus maximus that used to exist.



Curious about what all the Hieroglyphs mean?
The history is astonishing really.

How about the Obelisk of Antinous still standing... the only one without a cross


made for the Roman-Egyptian homosexual demigod, Antinous, the once lover of Hadrian.


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Re: Rate Religion [Re: Blue_Lux]
    #28562951 - 11/30/23 08:58 PM (1 month, 27 days ago)

oh and they all used to be painted in bright colors


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Re: Rate Religion [Re: Blue_Lux] * 1
    #28563103 - 11/30/23 11:23 PM (1 month, 27 days ago)

Unfortunately
they are all pretty much the same.

Only Buddhism, however, was able to point the way, for me, to understanding the mind, while all the rest, are vestiges of ancient cosmological fantasies.

When I say point the way, I do not mean it has better answers than any other religion, but it does have better questions.


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Re: Rate Religion [Re: redgreenvines]
    #28563202 - 12/01/23 01:53 AM (1 month, 27 days ago)

Gnosticism.. to apoint and make rest the claim that there is anything other than knowledge.


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Re: Rate Religion [Re: BrendanFlock]
    #28563203 - 12/01/23 01:56 AM (1 month, 27 days ago)

I like free deity worship.

Superstitions, omens, majik.

Physical skills blending into the super natural.


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Re: Rate Religion [Re: thetruthsohelp]
    #28563229 - 12/01/23 02:43 AM (1 month, 27 days ago)

My top pick is Taoism.
I don’t feel comfortable justifying any of my other decisions. So I’ll just leave it at that.


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Re: Rate Religion [Re: GenesisCorrupted]
    #28563278 - 12/01/23 04:08 AM (1 month, 27 days ago)

"that is the way" - Mandalorianism


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Re: Rate Religion [Re: redgreenvines]
    #28563343 - 12/01/23 06:43 AM (1 month, 27 days ago)

I think the reason King Tut's tomb was loaded with all the melted down and recast treasure (after they got rid of Ahkenaten's monotheism) was because they wanted people in the future to know their polytheism was their truth. Sigmund Freud said Moses was an escaped priest of Ahkenaten's monotheism, and from what I can tell, that seems highly likely.


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Re: Rate Religion [Re: Blue_Lux]
    #28563408 - 12/01/23 07:53 AM (1 month, 27 days ago)

I'm atheist (in a monotheistic sense) and pantheist with a slice of polytheism and Toaism.


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Re: Rate Religion [Re: Blue_Lux]
    #28563515 - 12/01/23 09:34 AM (1 month, 27 days ago)

And I am God.


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Re: Rate Religion [Re: Pinkerton] * 1
    #28563520 - 12/01/23 09:38 AM (1 month, 27 days ago)

lol


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Re: Rate Religion [Re: Blue_Lux]
    #28563522 - 12/01/23 09:40 AM (1 month, 27 days ago)

The crazy thing is that I am.


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Re: Rate Religion [Re: Pinkerton] * 1
    #28563535 - 12/01/23 09:49 AM (1 month, 27 days ago)

Deusne tu? si tibi placet, sed sum satanas. :satansmoking:
iocor, ego vere Lucifer caerulus sum


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Re: Rate Religion [Re: thetruthsohelp] * 2
    #28563869 - 12/01/23 02:13 PM (1 month, 26 days ago)

I think its more about how you engage with the religion than the religion itself. Curiosity and sincerity go a long way.


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Re: Rate Religion [Re: Freedom]
    #28563875 - 12/01/23 02:15 PM (1 month, 26 days ago)

lol you're right: lockstep


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Re: Rate Religion [Re: thetruthsohelp]
    #28563909 - 12/01/23 02:44 PM (1 month, 26 days ago)

my dad was very anti catholic (drug friendly) hindu guru seeker while my mum turned to reading the bible from 40 onwards and got very deep and authentically into "christ consciousness", going from low self esteem / selfrejection (partly coupled with accusations against others / paranoia) to a very compassionate and sincere temperament, seeing the good in people and the world and a glow in her eyes. my dad died at 55 from longterm hepC, my mum died from heart infection after flu at 62.

my mum seemed to live the values and ethics present in hinduism much better. vegetarian, no drugs except coffee in the morning (and Z sleeping pills from 50 onward), nature loving, completely pacifistic and compassionate. reading the bible but still calling out the abuse stories etc. my dad had good ideas but didn't live up to them properly.

growing up more with hindu and buddhist ideas, i started to embrace christianity after my mum's death. i think there's something fine about it's ethics and compassion. the downside / dark side is/was inquisition, superstition, pedophilia etc.

for me, if buddhism is the head of a coin, christianity is the tail :smile:


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Re: Rate Religion [Re: Blue_Lux]
    #28565479 - 12/02/23 03:48 PM (1 month, 25 days ago)

Quote:

Blue_Lux said:
Christianity did not create western civilization. Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans did.

Just look below St. Peter's Basilica...



and in front of it...



That is an Egyptian obelisk.

The most Egyptian obelisks in the world are in Rome near the Vatican. Mostly from the circus maximus that used to exist.



Curious about what all the Hieroglyphs mean?
The history is astonishing really.

How about the Obelisk of Antinous still standing... the only one without a cross


made for the Roman-Egyptian homosexual demigod, Antinous, the once lover of Hadrian.




You could say that greek or roman philosophy actually underpins western civilization i guess, but there is no question that judeo-christsian ethics underpin our culture to a large extent.


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Re: Rate Religion [Re: thetruthsohelp]
    #28565546 - 12/02/23 04:35 PM (1 month, 25 days ago)

are they different than Sumerian ethics?

I want to go back to bonobo ethics


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Re: Rate Religion [Re: redgreenvines]
    #28565966 - 12/02/23 09:19 PM (1 month, 25 days ago)

lol


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