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Originally posted by Secret_Agent_Man
I think that many people can worship with the perspective, and that many branches allow the perspective, that essentially all monothestic religions flowing from the Middle East, for example, are pointing you in the same direction -- to the same God. The rest is just details.
However, evangelical Christians, and the Catholic Church -- are very very clear that ALL OTHER RELIGIONS ARE FALSE, and your soul is in grave peril if you do not follow our WAY. (Wonder if they neutralize each other.)
OTOH -- you can also discredit or disbelieve another religion without thinking that YOUR GOD will cause you to triumph in WAR because YOU BELIEVE IN HIM while the other guy doesn't. -- which I think was that dude's point.
I, for example, don't believe that God gets so involved in day to day life -- or that the deity intervenes in warfare. If I thought so, I would have to despise God, which would make the holidays very uncomfortable.
S_A_M
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I was recently at a Jewish ceremony, and something I found very interesting in the service was that there were four or five places where a lack of knowledge on our party was acknowledged. Most such references have been edited out of the Masses where I attend.
It strikes me that the only way as a religion to denounce other religions is to claim infailiability, and even us Catholics only have a handful of infallable statements that we must believe.
