Religion: What is the one true faith?

monkspider · September 26, 2003, 00:36

Please keep it civil folks. I believe that the evidence leans toward Catholicism as being the only acceptable religious belief. What do you think?

Kirnwaffen · September 26, 2003, 00:38

What evidence?

Nubclear · September 26, 2003, 00:39

Catholicism.....

Buddhism.

Kuciwalker · September 26, 2003, 00:39

"the one true faith":

worship the banana!

you realize that, by definition, "faith" is belief regardless of supporting evidence (or more likely, the lack thereof)

Jon Miller · September 26, 2003, 00:41

I think that there are many paths God can work through. Everyone who comes to God has to come through Jesus though (Even if they don't know it) since it is His death on the cross which enables our salvation. I think the best path to God is through Christianity and that the Seventh-Day Adventist church has the best doctrine out there (still problems in the doctrine and deffinitely problems in the church though) at least as far as my experience has been.

Jon Miller

Shi Huangdi · September 26, 2003, 00:42

at blatant flame war starting attempt

Nubclear · September 26, 2003, 00:43

I'm one of those strange people that believe that all the idols people worship are God and Jesus. Even people who worship hundreds of dieties.

MrFun · September 26, 2003, 01:50

There is no one true religion . . .

rather, I believe God simply wants you to be true to yourself by choosing the best way for you to express your faith in him.

Asher · September 26, 2003, 01:53

Agnostics are the only ones that are unquestionably correct.

Jules · September 26, 2003, 02:25

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Originally posted by skywalker
"the one true faith":

worship the banana!

Yes, sir!

Proteus_MST · September 26, 2003, 02:44

I think there is not one true faith,
the different religions just have insights into the real truth,
but none of them can claim for his religion to possess the whole truth,
so no one can say:
"I believe in Religion X and so I will be saved, but you will suffr in the eternal Fires of Hell, because you are a boloody Heathen, because you believe in Religion Y"

Az · September 26, 2003, 03:36

Next time in Monkspider's corner of eternal questions: "What is the meaning of life?".

Drake Tungsten · September 26, 2003, 04:01

Shinto, obviously.

Ecthy · September 26, 2003, 04:05

You have just won the Stupid award, Monkspider.

Combat Ingrid · September 26, 2003, 04:15

TheStinger · September 26, 2003, 04:23

Being led by a man in Rome with a silly hat is undoubtedly the only way to go

Ecthy · September 26, 2003, 04:25

especially when he needs the help of his cardinals to actually breathe and pump blood.

TheStinger · September 26, 2003, 04:26

Those cardinals must be wetting themselves at the thought it might be theit time soon.

Proteus_MST · September 26, 2003, 04:33

If you look at their age, many of those Cardinals might not survive till the day when they get a chance to get elected as JP2s succesor

Maybe many of them even die at the moment when they get to know, that the pop is dead, because they get a Heart Attack out of Excitement

Saint Marcus · September 26, 2003, 05:02

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I think the best path to God is through Christianity and that the Seventh-Day Adventist church has the best doctrine out there

Why 7th Day Adventism?

I myself am an agnostic Catholic (is there any other kind?), with a general disliking of Protestantism (how stereotypical of me).

Skanky Burns · September 26, 2003, 05:12

:banana:

Proteus_MST · September 26, 2003, 05:20

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Originally posted by Saint Marcus

Why 7th Day Adventism?

I myself am an agnostic Catholic (is there any other kind?), with a general disliking of Protestantism (how stereotypical of me).

I think rather, that out of the Christian churches Lutheran Protestantism seems to be the Best.
At least the lutheran Protestantism which we have in Germany, where it isn´t one of small protestant Sects like in America, but an established Church just like the Roman Catholics (we have around thesame numbr of Lutheran Protestans in Germany, as Roman Catholics).
Unlike Catholics, we have female Priests (although only few) and are more open to certain social things, like Gays, Contraception, oecumenicity or Divorcements for example.

Seems to be more like the things Jesus stood for, I think

Saint Marcus · September 26, 2003, 05:33

The Anglican church has those same things. What do you think makes Lutheranism "better" or "more right" than Anglicanism?

(note: I'm asking about English Anglicanism and Continental Lutheranism here, not American spin-off churches).

Oerdin · September 26, 2003, 05:34

Clearly, Bananaism is the ultimate form of religious expression & is the only true faith.

Oerdin · September 26, 2003, 05:36

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Originally posted by monkspider
Please keep it civil folks. I believe that the evidence leans toward Catholicism as being the only acceptable religious belief. What do you think?

I think it is strange for a professed communist to say Catholicism is the only true faith. You need to reread your little red book.

Mordoch · September 26, 2003, 05:38

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Originally posted by TheStinger
Those cardinals must be wetting themselves at the thought it might be theit time soon.

I think given their average age they actually wet themselves when there's not anything to be excited about as well.

Urban Ranger · September 26, 2003, 05:40

Jesus was a communist, though.

Ben Kenobi · September 26, 2003, 05:40

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I'm one of those strange people that believe that all the idols people worship are God and Jesus.

So if I melt your idol, I melt God?

As for the one true church, the only one that can meet that claim (among the Christian churches), is the Catholic church.

The others, including mine, can only say we have a better doctrine.

Proteus_MST · September 26, 2003, 05:45

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Originally posted by Saint Marcus
The Anglican church has those same things. What do you think makes Lutheranism "better" or "more right" than Anglicanism?

(note: I'm asking about English Anglicanism and Continental Lutheranism here, not American spin-off churches).

The last things I mentioned, i.e. that it doesn´t try to say it believers which Contraceptions they should use, that it doesn´t condemn gays, alows it Believers to Divoe and marry again
and, lst but not least that it hasn´t an Leader, who tries to hinder ecumenic movements, for example to prohibit the members to take part in a Communion with Believers of other Christian churches.

In short:
That it allows more personal freedoms for its members.

I don´t think though that Lutheranism is more "right" than Catholicism, as I mentioned before, I don´t bekliev that there is one "true" faith and every faith just sees parts of the real Truth, but none of them the whole truth.
But because of Lutheran Church being more open-minded, I think it is better to be Lutheran than to be Catholic.

Maybe I would se it different, if JP1 had lived longer and had started a Reformation of the catholic Church

As for Anglicanism, I canot say anyting about it, because I don´t know it.
If Anglicanism has the same reedoms and Openmindednes, it is also better than te catholic church.

Cruddy · September 26, 2003, 05:45

As an altruistic unorthodox Voodoo practitioner, I can safely say... whatever works for you.

Altruism - because it's all true.

At least, that's what the believers will tell you...