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I'll never understand how Captain Obvious could be a heretic

I'll never understand how Captain Obvious could be a heretic | Christians, Jews and
Muslims all
worship the
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236 views 11 upvotes Made by Hannibal_Lecher 2 years ago in The_Think_Tank
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4 ups, 2y,
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Monotheists like the ones you mention believe there is only one God so in that sense yea, they all worship the same God. Their understanding of who He is and how He interacts with humanity and what's expected of us is different however.
3 ups, 2y,
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Well, yeah, but that's true of the myriad denominations of Christianity. They're free to believe whatever they wish. When those beliefs fail to comport with science-based reality, they leave rational, critical thought to the adults in the room. As a mater of record, "Abrahamic religions are those religions that worship the God of Abraham, including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam ." That many practitioners of these faiths refuse to acknowledge this fact is emblematic of the damaged or missing higher order thinking skills inherent to the religious mind.

I do not mean this pejoratively, though I do find it frustrating. I have experienced first hand time and again how myopic, illogical and militant closed-minded religious devotees tend to be. As well they must, since sincerely held beliefs which fly in the face of reason must necessarily be held by unreasonable people.

Used to think my gripe with Christianity is that it enabled people to be shxtty. Then I thought it was the way they foresake the capacity for metacognition and logical thought. Then I thought it was the way they insisted on placing their beliefs beside, or even above science. I have only recently put my finger on precisely what has always rubbed me the wrong way about organized religion as practiced: the way it denies the validity of any conflicting belief, thereby depriving others of the same right to which it owes its own existence. Not agreement with. Not acceptance of. Not even tolerance of. Merely acknowledging that everyone is free to choose their own beliefs, and to have that right respected. (The subject of those beliefs, however, is quite another matter.)
1 up, 2y
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["Abrahamic religions are those religions that worship the God of Abraham, including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam ." That many practitioners of these faiths refuse to acknowledge this fact is emblematic of the damaged or missing higher order thinking skills inherent to the religious mind.]

I'm no Bible scholar, but if you boil it all down and take a step back and take a good look at the strife between the Abrahamic religions, you'll see that it's really a centuries old family dispute over who really is Abraham's rightful heir. The way I see it, an angel told Abraham that he and his wife would have a son that would make their nation of followers as numerous as the stars. Abraham, excited about the prospect, ran and told his baren wife the good news. But she was not only baren, she was old, too and had no faith that it would happen so she told Abraham to make a child with a younger, fertile woman. Abraham lost faith, too, and did as his wife asked. The younger woman bore Abraham a son and Abraham loved him. Then, after several years had passed, Abraham's baren wife became pregnant just as the angel had mentioned. So now Abraham had two sons and only one of them could be the leader of the nation the angel had mentioned. And since the angel had said Abraham's wife would be the mother of this leader, the older son and his mom were a problem. So Abraham banished them. And thus the dispute. The banished son's bloodline became the founders of Islam, claiming to be the true heirs of Abraham.
4 ups, 2y,
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I’ll be over here sipping tea and watching the results come in 😏

Peace.
1 up, 2y,
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Don't forget popcorn... how you been lately? Good to see you. Long time users are becoming an endangered species here on the flip.
3 ups, 2y
we are. mostly because of the snowflake politics stream that flags everything and the mods blocking people willy nilly.
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