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OntarioCanuck
Posted 7/8/2020 12:27 (#8361348 - in reply to #8361147)
Subject: RE: Let’s pray


North of London

Ok so I go 'seeking', now what am I 'seeking'?
If there is no concrete 'picture' of what I am seeking then I get to choose for myself what I want to just believe to be there since there is no need for evidence or hard facts.

That will allow me o'just believe' the leprechaun actually does live in the garden.

If we are just going to believe in entities that make predictions that come true then those predictions have to be specific so they can be acknowledge as having come true.
If I predict it will rain in July I will probably be correct. Do you believe in me now?

How about the Simpsons predictions.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/simpsons-30-times-fox-comedy-successfully-predicted-future-1140775

Now if you want to look at religions in a total view including history and what the future may hold you could read through this article.
A long but well thought out article on religion, why humans 'need' a religion and what the future may hold for religions.

.https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190801-tomorrows-gods-what-is-the-future-of-religion

Before Mohammed, before Jesus, before Buddha, there was Zoroaster. Some 3,500 years ago, in Bronze Age Iran, he had a vision of the one supreme God. A thousand years later, Zoroastrianism, the world’s first great monotheistic religion, was the official faith of the mighty Persian Empire, its fire temples attended by millions of adherents. A thousand years after that, the empire collapsed, and the followers of Zoroaster were persecuted and converted to the new faith of their conquerors, Islam.

Another 1,500 years later – today – Zoroastrianism is a dying faith, its sacred flames tended by ever fewer worshippers.

We take it for granted that religions are born, grow and die – but we are also oddly blind to that reality. When someone tries to start a new religion, it is often dismissed as a cult. When we recognise a faith, we treat its teachings and traditions as timeless and sacrosanct. And when a religion dies, it becomes a myth, and its claim to sacred truth expires. Tales of the Egyptian, Greek and Norse pantheons are now considered legends, not holy writ.

Even today’s dominant religions have continually evolved throughout history. Early Christianity, for example, was a truly broad church: ancient documents include yarns about Jesus’ family life and testaments to the nobility of Judas. It took three centuries for the Christian church to consolidate around a canon of scriptures – and then in 1054 it split into the Eastern Orthodox and Catholic churches. Since then, Christianity has continued both to grow and to splinter into ever more disparate groups, from silent Quakers to snake-handling Pentecostalists.

Let me know what you think after you have read and thought about it for a while. No need to seek anything just consider what the author says and if it could be correct in many ways or not 

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