alan@allegra.UUCP (Alan S. Driscoll) (08/27/84)
>> A point I've often wondered about: wouldn't a Serious God make it a >> little clearer about what was the One True Way? [Mark McWiggins] > Clarity is in the eye of the beholder. Jesus is recorded to have said, "I am > the way, the truth, and the life; no man comes to the Father except by Me." > Also, Christianity is unique among major world religions in that its Founder > claimed not to be just a prophet or an enlightened one, but made statements > implying His equality with God -- not to mention the little detail that He > was raised from the dead, something I don't think one can say about Mohammed, > Buddha, et al. [Jeff Sargent] Jeff, if you're going to tell us that you've found the One True Way, and that all other religions are false, then you damn well ought to know what other religions have to say. The question is: How is a spiritual seeker to decide which religion to follow? You claim that Christianity is unique in a number of ways, so the seeker should have no problem deciding. Bullshit! Not one of these things is unique to Christianity. (Read that last paragraph carefully, and be sure you understand it. None of the *claims* you make about Christianity have not been made by followers of some other religion.) If you say, "But my claims are true; the others are false," you still haven't answered the original question. How does the seeker decide whose claims to believe? One final question: Why should the seeker assume that there is only one valid religion? Faced with the multitude of religions, why not try to find some underlying, unifying principle? (This might lead to respect and tolerance, qualities that don't come through in your articles.) -- Alan S. Driscoll AT&T Bell Laboratories