Believers all agree that there is but one
Except for the millions who claim there is more than one. Hindus, for example. Or shamen. Or, loosely, Shintoists (counting each emperor as a separate divinity).
At least I don't remember hearing believers claiming that "my God will kick your God's butt"
Nope. but they, as the only true God's people, will. I think that's what the Crusades were allegedly about, for starters.
Some in each religion claims it and it alone has the one truth and the only righteous path (some opt for the version wherein they have the path underlying all the others... same diff.). Believing another is heresy. Damnable.
Hence some in every religion must be wrong before you've even started. Some, in some religions, woudl allow certain points of other religions. Clearly heretical.
&c.
It's all a farrago of mystical nonsense, designed by the more intelligent, more deluded and/or less scrupulous as a means of grabbing and holding more power, wealth and status than their fellows. If you want to play along, fine, but don't ask for special privilege or consideration any more than the man who rolls dice or the woman following her horoscope.
No offense... I''ve just had enough of admitting and subsidising someone else's superstition... |
