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How far should a secular multi-cultural society go to accommodate religious sensibilities?
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Posted by Jayb, Tuesday, 28 July 2009 3:08:39 PM
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Hmm... The way I see it is that if there is only "one God" then ALL religions must pray to the same GOD. Regardles of what The GOD is called. Now GOD is God in English, Deo is GOD in Italian, Allah is GOD in Arabic, There is a Trinity of Gods in Hindu that are One GOD, Buddism doesen't have a GOD as such. Yes, they pray to The Budda for enlightenment. They have their own littiany of animist Gods that are indemic to each region, but mostly the old Chinese animist Gods. Budda taught the very same things that Jesus did. Exactly. Though Budda died some 600 years before Jesus. That's why there is a story about Jesus visiting India during his missing 18 years. Jesuses garment was one piece. So is a Buddist Monks. Strange that. Did Jesus fold Buddas teachings into the Jewish religion. Then Paul modified it again to suit the Greco/Roman world of the time. Then, Constantine combined all the Roman empire into that the new Jesus worshipping religion.
So it doesn't matter what GOD you pray to, you are all still praying to the same GOD. (If, of course, there really is a GOD.) What the various religions fight over is the "Dogma."
I still don't get what "ALL" was on about. Does anyone? He certainly doesn't like me. I'll just see if I'm excited by that. Du, do, du, do.... Hmm... No.
A little history. Emporer Constantius 1, some years as Consol of Gaul/Britan, Married a Welch woman, Helena, decendant of the Apostle John, brother of Jesus. The one that Jesus told to look after his mother.
Emporer Constantine the Great, born at Narissus, Serbia Married a Christian woman. Ordered the Roman Empire to Adopt Christianity at the Council of Nicaea, now Iznik, Turkey.