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 Posted: Sat Feb 14, 2009 5:54 pm
Everyone has been saying that they would like a discussion soooo here is something I would love to discuss about.
Do you beleive that all religons are just parts of another religon? Allmost as if they are the missing puzzle peices. Or do you beleive all religons are just re-tolled differently but are trying to get at the same main idea? In example mythology and todays religon. How much truth do you think is in each? Do you beleive that there is only one true straight to the fact religons and that everything else is just copying it?
I would really like to see your ideas on this. My brother and I where reading a libary book on the mythology of the world and the book labeld Hindu beleifs as mythology. I thought people where still Hindu and that it still was a religon. So haveing a discussion on mythology and todays beleifs started to seem interesting to me. Please reply.
The One The Only
Ama B.
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Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2009 4:39 pm
Ooo! Yay! New thread!
Anyway, I've thought on this for awhile actually. I mean, if we start looking at religions, a lot of them start to have connections that you wouldn't have thought of, such as beliefs in one similar God (as is the case, from my point of view, of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. They all have a very similar view of one God, or at least they did from the study our teacher did in world history.) or a group of gods that, eventually start to sound like parts of one being collectively.
I can't really see that all religions are part of one religion because things vary so much, but as for them being retold, that would make a lot more sense and explain a lot of why the are several religions as well as why there are different interpretations of the same thing. A particular religion may have many gods as opposed to one God, but it seems like they all end up being parts of another religion in some way.
I don't think Hindu is a mythological belief. It my knowledge, there are still Hindus in the world today, so I wouldn't say that it belongs under mythology.
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Tsume Rokaro Vice Captain
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Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2009 5:23 pm
A very interesting topic, this one is!
The most amazing thing about the various religions is they evolved fairly independently of each other. The land around each group of people was their whole world. Celts never met Palestinians never met Chinese never met Australian Aborigines never met Zulus/Xhosas/Shonas etc.
Yet the religions do, like you say, have threads connecting them. It's amazing, isn't it? xD Just to kick things up a notch, Celtic Pagans had in their pantheon of divine beings a sacred trinity.
The same story, the story of creation, is told and retold a thousand times, each time differently.
We evolved. (Science)
We were created from dust. (Abrahamic Religions)
We are descended from Gods. (At least one flavour of Paganism)
We clawed our way out of the earth. (Several African tribes)
Each of these share threads. Dust itself carries bacteria, the selfsame bacteria it is said we grew from, millions upon millions of years ago. Yet God(s) itself created all of this, making everything in existence his/her/their children. And so on.
Every religion, every faith, is somewhat separate - yet, as Amas suggested, they are all missing pieces, which the other faiths appear to hold.
To me, religions all have at their core the same story told differently. Other stories grow around them, giving shape to the religion itself - but it's still the same story. The story of the circle of life.
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