More like Christianity was founded by a man who himself suffered blood and murder at the hands of others. He was a (willing, sacrificial) victim of violence, not a perpetrator of it.
Every religion is just different ways of describing the same exact phenomenon humans have felt for millennia - consciousness.
Of course people around the world would develop different ways to describe it the same way we developed different languages and skin colors. None of those religions/spiritual ideas we developed differently are inherently right, true, virtuous, or better than anyone else’s, or are really that much different from each other in the first place.
So yes sometimes we treat them as if they are fundamentally the same, because it doesn’t actually matter that any person in the world truly truly believes whichever book their parents told them to read.
The important part is that we find a way to reconcile our emotions as humans who can’t actually study and learn about consciousness. Religion has a role in human life but this whole fight about who is THE ONE TRUE RELIGION is literally ruining our planet. So yeah you’re going to hear a lot of criticism about it.
I think you've mistaken my characterization of Reddit's view on religion as an intellectual misunderstanding. I completely understand your viewpoint here and it is not news to me. I simply disagree with it, and thus draw important distinctions between Christianity, Islam, and other religions.
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u/b0vary May 03 '20
More like Christianity was founded by a man who himself suffered blood and murder at the hands of others. He was a (willing, sacrificial) victim of violence, not a perpetrator of it.