I was in church today (Baptist) and one of the brothers who was called to preach starting going on an angry tirade against all other world religions i.e. Buddhism, Hinduism etc saying "we know it's all from the devil!" etc. Is the the appropriate way to look at other religions? That they're all just Satanic lies and nothing more? I couldn't help but think how unproductive his preaching was while listening to him.
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Landon Gonzalez
Juan Taylor
There are some grains of truth in some of them, that makes it worse. Only thing more horrid than fullblown lie, is a lie mixed with truth, making it more believable.
Oliver Gutierrez
Not every single "mystical" experience is from the devil. C'mon now. The atheist idea that religion is just a primitive way to explain the world is actually true in a lot of cases. Taoism is an attempt to reconcile order and chaos as philosophical concepts. Buddhism is an attempt to ascend mortal suffering by rejecting the world. Even the Greek/Roman gods corresponded mostly to natural forces beyond mortal reckoning at the time. And I don't even know how many of them are people attempting to explain hallucinations brought on either by illness or drugs, which they had no concept of either.
Logan Myers
yes. quit being a faggot
Lucas Wilson
I was trying to make a longer post, but I didn't like it. To boil it down the whole world knew the truth at one point and nature testifies to the truth so that no one has excuses, but we are fallen and can only understand truth not explicitly stated to a certain degree. On top of that demons actively try to hide and twist the truth. Only the Israelites were given the truth explicitly in Scriptures and protected, in the long run, from demons, so all other religions fell and didn't return to the fullness of the truth. These religions didn't necessarily lose all of the truth and often they lost the truth over time so you can see more of what truth they possessed in their ancient beliefs as opposed to their modern beliefs which usually have been altered significantly. Usually the truth most well preserved is the existence of good and evil spirits and a war between them. Monotheism usually hasn't been preserved, but often has been partially preserved with one god being a divine monarch over the others. Other things will also pop up such as faith being salvific, even if they don't have the right understanding of salvation. People always wan't to jump into either the all religions have no truth or all religions have equal truth camps, but theres more nuance to it
Joseph Russell
I'm very sympathetic to this view...even though I know it's heresy
Evan Powell
I've read a bit on the subject. Was turned on to it by Tom Rowsell / Survive the Jive when he did a video about Rene Guenon (the father of Perrenialism) and his explanation of symbols & representations in religion. I don't think I agree with it in reality though. Mainly because I have studied and practiced Buddhism before becoming Christian and the core of the two religions are fundamentally incompatible. If you take a look at an elder Buddhist who has truly been enlightened and attained to Nirvana and compare his state of being with an elder Christian who has truly been saved and received the Holy Spirit- the metaphysical object of their practices are entirely at odds. It makes no sense to say that these two religions, for example, are getting at the same "metaphysical truth." Eastern enlightenment and Christian salvation are not seeing or saying the same thing in different ways. Perrenialists are always going on about metaphysical truth like the Gnostics go on about mystical wisdom. It's a whole lot of reactionary 3deep5u edge in my opinion.
Mason Sullivan
Yep, that's heresy. Also what
Is saying. Or even Read father rose, he actually in his books. Gives a pretty detailed argument against Reincarnation. But if you're a christian. Then Reincarnation is Preposterous. The two idea, of Death, just don't go together. Perennialisms get serious issue. At what's presupposing. Pic related to the book, in one of which where, he actually gives a short talk on it in here. But also in his other works. And father rose being the famous Convert From Taoism. So makes for interesting read.
David Wood
Opinion discarded with extreme prejudice.
Logan Cox
Anthropocentric religions are not from demons because they are already acting as the demons want them to.
Why would they waste their time? Do the military stand the bulk of the forces facing friendly gorund?