my god is the best god, because...

[toddzilla]

my parents believed in "him"!!


the god of asian people isn't as good because they live way over there...

[Az]

1. As Richard Dawkins said

it is a telling fact that, the world over, the vast majority of children follow the religion of their parents rather than any of the other available religions. - Richard Dawkins

[lapislzi]

11. Interesting point, BUT

New religions evolve precisely because a significant minority of people DON'T follow the religions of their parents.

Children are born atheist. Tabula rasa.

[Taxloss]

2. My god is the best god because

it's far better than any of your gods because of its superiority. The fact it's better than anything you can imagine makes it the best god ever. So nah nah nah.

[fshrink]

3. Don't you ever dare

attacking my father (although, and because, I secretely wish to kill him myself). Started with Zeus and his own father, Chronos (the Time), who ate his children.

[Az]

4. It is interesting to wonder what would have happened

if Christianity had not eclipsed the Roman gods. Aside from the plunge into the darkages I mean. The Roman gods were not so much a dogmatic proclomation of absolute truth. They were more an externalised dialog on the model and code of society. Much insite is found in their descriptions.

Swearing fealty to their gods was basically their way of ascertaining that the individual would hold to their moral codes. This is what got the Christians in trouble. They could not swear to other gods. Thus they got tossed to the lions. Until of course they started tossing their former oppressors to their own version of the lions.

[fshrink]

5. There is also

the passage to a higher level of abstraction; from anthropomorphic deities to a symbolic, unique, one. In that sense, in that developmental sense, monotheism marked a progress in the dominant thinking. Just like more advanced languages use more abstract words (i.e. "tree" and not "the tall vegetal which stands by the old man's house"). The trick is that to keep it "sellable" you have to maintain the anthropomorphic aspect, or else uneducated peasants who bust their asses in the fields until they reach 30 and die from exhaustion will not buy it. The smooth evolution from anthropomorphic myth to the quantic theory is therefore thwarted. And the reign of stupidity begins. Apparently with no limits in sight.

[onager]

6. I was thinking about that today while sitting in a mosque...

...listening to a highly edited and rose-colored-glasses history of Islam.

I'm still in Egypt, and we were doing a tour of the Islamic antiquities in the old part of Cairo.

Our tour guide was a very intelligent guy who spoke four languages and had a Master's degree.

But I could have sure simplified the comparative-religion part of his spiel:

One fanatic imagined he saw a god in a burning bush, and we got Judaism.

Another fanatic imagined he was the son of god, and we got Christianity.

Yet another fanatic imagined he chatted with the archangel Gabriel in a cave, and we got Islam.

[BlueEyedSon]

7. I contend we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you

do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dissmiss yours.

--Stephen F. Roberts

http://www.philosophyofreligion.info/atheistquotes.html

[RaleighNCDUer]

8. That is a great quote! nt

[progressoid]

9. Ooooh, Thanks for that site link

That's a keeper.

[Beetwasher]

10. My God's The Best, Becuase She ALWAYS Gives Me

a happy ending...:evilgrin:

[kslib]

12. my god is the best god, because....

I'm too scared to speak against him! :scared: