Peel away the carnival-like outer layers, bypass the guidebooks and dive through the dogmatic sludge to the core within and anyone curious enough to look will find that there are but two ostensible, universal truths pervading all religions: 1) They all claim to be true 2) Not one has ever emerged twice on the planet That’s it. There is nothing lurking any deeper than that, and as the second truism annihilates the first claim there’s no need to even litigate the petitions forwarded by any single religion as it’s already perfectly clear that any allusion to authenticity is entirely groundless. If this were not the case, if any single religion were in fact true, we’d expect that religion to have arisen naturally and fluidly wherever humans were found, regardless of their isolation or epoch. We would expect the deity (or deities) anchoring that single religion to speak a single language and whose word penetrated all tribal, domestic and international legal code. No religion has however emerged twice anywhere on the planet, no single deity has been envisaged by two populations separated by time and geography, and not a solitary person in history has arrived independently at Mithraism, Christianity, Islam, Zoroastrianism, Scientology or Judaism without it first being taught to them.
Posted on: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 14:04:53 +0000
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