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Here at ATomorrow some have suggested Christianity being a copy cat of polytheistic religions, pagan societies, etc. However, is it really an Evolution of God or an Evolution Man's Reasoning. <BR> <BR><blockquote><hr size=0><!-quote-!><font size=1><b>quote:</b></font><p>For all the advances and wonders of our global era, Christians, Jews, and Muslims seem ever more locked in mortal combat. But history suggests a happier outcome for the Peoples of the Book. As technological evolution has brought communities, nations, and faiths into closer contact, it is the prophets of tolerance and love that have prospered, along with the religions they represent. Is globalization, in fact, God's will? <BR> <BR><!-/quote-!><hr size=0></blockquote> <BR> <BR><a href="http://kottke.org/09/05/the-evolution-of-god" target=_top>http://kottke.org/09/05/the-evolution-of-god</a> <BR> <BR>Is tolerance the ultimate goal or truth? Some have suggested you are born into your belief system and ought not to fight it and the rest of the world tolerate the diversity. Is that true or just an intellectual approach to religion? Is there not truth, no one way to salvation? <BR> <BR>In Robert Wright's book he explores, where all religions can reconcile themselves to each other and science. <BR> <BR><a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/0316734918/?tag=yahhyd-20&hvadid=57190314511&ref=pd_sl_46h5pge9zz_b" target=_top>http://www.amazon.com/dp/0316734918/?tag=yahhyd-20 &hvadid=57190314511&ref=pd_sl_46h5pge9zz_b</a> <BR> <BR>(Message edited by Bob_2 on June 27, 2009)
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I've almost completed Wright's book on <i>The Evolution of God</i> and found it very informative. It is not so much about God evolving, but how man's perception of God has vastly changed throughout the centuries. It is impossible in reading the Bible not to be aware of that.
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My own view is not a religion is a religion is a religion. There is truth. Like being brought up where there are lots of disease ridden mosquitos, there are mosquito nets that will protect you in America as well as Africa or Asia. Tolerance is not the answer to Malaria but prevention, which may have to be learned by all suseptible to the disease, not just accepted where you were born.
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Lubbock in the "The Origin of Civilization and the Primitive Condition of Man": <BR> <BR><blockquote><hr size=0><!-quote-!><font size=1><b>quote:</b></font><p>One pain Lubbock spared his readers was the thought that their brains might have much in common with savage brains. “The whole mental condition of a savage is so different from ours, that it is often very difficult to follow what is passing in his mind, or to understand the motives by which he is influenced.” Though savages do “have a reason, such as it is, for what they do and what they believe, their reasons often are very absurd.” The savage evinces “extreme mental inferiority,” and his mind, “like that of the child, is easily fatigued.” Naturally, then, the savage’s religious ideas are “not the result of deep thought. <BR> <BR>”So there was reassurance aplenty for Lubbock’s readers: “Religion, as understood by the lower savage races,” is not only different from civilized religion “but even opposite.” Indeed, if we bestow the title “religion” on the coarse rituals and superstitious fears that observers of savage society have reported, then “we can no longer regard religion as peculiar to man.” For the “baying of a dog to the moon is as much an act of worship as some ceremonies which have been so described by travellers.”<!-/quote-!><hr size=0></blockquote> <BR> <BR><a href="http://www.evolutionofgod.net/excerpts_chapter1/" target=_top>http://www.evolutionofgod.net/excerpts_chapter1/</a> <BR> <BR>Can the baying of a dog at the moon be stated to be evolutionary roots of religion? How absurd, IMO. <BR> <BR>(Message edited by Bob_2 on June 28, 2009)
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Personal hygiene, does it's rules and benefits differ in India from America?? Does alcholism in Africa have different rules than America. Those that argue there is no absolute truth about Salvation, should answer the original two questions when arguing Buddhism or Hinduism or Animism or whatever is ok for the diverse societies, for their salvation, should have answeres for those questions hygiene and alcholism, there are not different rules or results of abuse for the society you were born into.
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