[Marsh.]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

The arrogance and blinkeredness necessary to follow any organised religion is mind-boggling to me. You not only have to insist that YOUR super-special religion is the right one denouncing all others (there are hundreds, probs thousands of minor ones)

Not really.
I'd say the majority of religious people are anything but arrogant and a hell of a lot of them respect other religions and just find it simply different people/cultures interpreting and worshipping the same force/being.

Much like how we're all humans who communicate with each other. In a multitude of different kinds of spoken/written/acted languages but still all essentially the same.

[Dollface]

Originally Posted by Marsh.

Not really.
I'd say the majority of religious people are anything but arrogant and a hell of a lot of them respect other religions and just find it simply different people/cultures interpreting and worshipping the same force/being.

Much like how we're all humans who communicate with each other. In a multitude of different kinds of spoken/written/acted languages but still all essentially the same.

[user104658]

Originally Posted by Marsh.

Not really.
I'd say the majority of religious people are anything but arrogant and a hell of a lot of them respect other religions and just find it simply different people/cultures interpreting and worshipping the same force/being.

Much like how we're all humans who communicate with each other. In a multitude of different kinds of spoken/written/acted languages but still all essentially the same.

What you're saying is that religious people accept that there is an unknown / unknowable "greater force" in a very general sense and that the rest of each holy book is simply made-up human fluff.

Made up by people.

Feeding on people's inherent spirituality, as a method of power and control.

Either that or they think that all of the others are worhipping the same force but "in the wrong way, and theirs is actually the correct way". Otherwise, why subscribe to one?

If people really do accept that all are worhipping the same being, why not simply accept that it isn't one dumbed-down, defined deity described by any organised religion? But, as I said, some unknown, unknowable creative force in a universe of infinite possibility.