Desiree


It’s impossible to believe in the dogma of all religions, right? Well, maybe not impossible but you’d have to be pretty crazy to believe that all religious dogma is true when all religious dogma contradicts other religious dogma. So that means that people can really only believe that the dogma associated with one religion is the truth, and if people believe that only the dogma associated with one religion is true, then this means they believe all other dogma is false, right? And this is the same as believing that the dogma associated with all other religions is a lie, right?

11 Responses to “Does believing in the dogma of one religion automatically mean belief that all other religions are lies?”

1. Princess Ninja on September 19th, 2009 4:00 am

   Aw Desiree. I’ve missed you so much.

2. Pangel - Love and Peace on September 20th, 2009 6:06 pm

   that depends how you interperet each book
   I can see how they might be speaking about the same thing
   different language , different eras , different translations …. make it easy to find contradictions with each other

3. Secret Agent of God (BWR) on September 21st, 2009 3:23 pm

   Look. Religion isn’t a denomination, okay? If you mean denomination, would you please use that word?

4. Lion Sack on September 24th, 2009 10:46 pm

   Seems obvious.

   Make your choice

5. Фίλων on September 25th, 2009 11:53 pm

   I agree with you for the most part except that it’s possible for two different religions to have some dogma they agree about. For example, both Jews and Muslims believe there is only one God. If it turns out that Islam is true, then of course it doesn’t follow that ALL the beliefs of Jews are false. It certainly doesn’t mean the Jews are wrong to say there is only one God.

   If some particular religion is true, then other religions are false ONLY INSOFAR AS they contradict the religion that’s true.

6. Return To Eartha on September 29th, 2009 12:22 am

   Some religions are very inclusive…so Hindus for example can quite easily accommodate the Christian ethos…or the Jewish one…they are poly deistic…they believe that there are many Gods…not just one.

   But the Abrahamic religions…Christianity, Judaism, Islam…they seem to be quite exclusive…they will not allow that anyone else’s deity might have credence.

   Which is why those religions have prompted so much violence iin their names…they are fighting for primacy.

7. Rico JPA on September 29th, 2009 10:52 am

   Depends on your definition of Dogma. Is it the rules and regulations and rituals surrounding beliefs? Then, no. Benedictine monks can have different rules of monasticism, but this will not make the rules that Buddhist monks adhere to a lie. Is it the nature of the beliefs themselves? Then, yes, if you accept the limitations imposed by certain exclusionary belief systems. However, not all belief systems are exclusionary.

   So the question is not, “Is this set of practices and rituals true, making all others false”, but rather, “does this set of rituals and practices help ME connect to an infinite divine nature.” It’s about efficacy rather than absolute truth.

   Many limited theists criticize atheists because scientific theories are not absolute truths. No, says the informed atheists, they’re not, but nothing is, and the only question about scientific theories is, are they predictive and efficacious. If it works, we go with it, until more data is collected, more refined sensing equipment is developed, etc. That’s why Newtonian physics worked so well, and we don’t throw Newton in the waste basket just because of Einstein. Relativity being true didn’t make Newtonian physics false.

8. Laura on October 1st, 2009 10:34 pm

   Depends on the religion and how accepting of other faiths it tends to be. I think that I can safely say that if you believe in the Christian dogma, you most likely automatically believe that all other faiths are wrong, unless you are a very wise, well-read and accepting person.

   I personally am Wicca and Wiccans tend to be very accepting of the other religions. Our opinion tends to be that they aren’t necessarily wrong, they just aren’t right for us. Many Wicca dogmas and ideals come from other religions such as Buddhism and Hindu. Personally I don’t believe that everything Christianity teaches to be wrong, it has many wonderful ideas and practices, I just don’t think everything about it to be right and more often than not the people that practice it mess it up. Oh and I was Christian for 7 years so I don have some idea as to what I am talking about.

9. Pedestal42 on October 4th, 2009 9:18 pm

   Pretty much.

   I can’t stretch my mind to cover a single reality where Jesus was and wasn’t divine, was and wasn’t crucified, where people are and aren’t reincarnated, and where the fundamental principle is Grace (undeserved favour) and Karma (nearly the opposite), where there is one deity and none and many.

   No, they can’t all be right, and to decide for one detail is to decide against another.

   It goes down to quite small details: Puritans once considered Quakers so heretical that boring though their tongues with a red-hot iron was authorised as a judicial punishment (Massachusetts)

10. Neuropsych on October 6th, 2009 6:47 am

    There are a lot of fallacies even within religions. Only the Gospel makes sense when looked at in the simple light described in this book: Read.

11. Moderation in almost all things2 on October 7th, 2009 7:39 am

    Call me Crazy. Or, please, Mr. Crazy. That sounds nice.

    A truth can not be a lie.

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