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This is what bothers me THE MOST about religions - it's ALWAYS the REPRESENTATIVE, and NEVER the real deal. Nothing but bullshit.

EarnestEccentric 7 May 6
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Well put ... kudos! Some years ago, I adopted the philosophy of my avatar that all religions are based on hearsay. Find me a religion that only espouses first person communication!

“Revelation, when applied to religion, means something communicated immediately from God to man.

No one will deny or dispute the power of the Almighty to make such a communication, if he pleases. But admitting, for the sake of a case, that something has been revealed to a certain person, and not revealed to any other person, it is revelation to that person only. When he tells it to a second person, a second to a third, a third to a fourth, and so on, it ceases to be a revelation to all those persons. It is revelation to the first person only, and hearsay to every other, and consequently they are not obliged to believe it.

It is a contradiction in terms and ideas, to call anything a revelation that comes to us at second-hand, either verbally or in writing. Revelation is necessarily limited to the first communication—after this, it is only an account of something which that person says was a revelation made to him; and though he may find himself obliged to believe it, it cannot be incumbent on me to believe it in the same manner; for it was not a revelation made to me, and I have only his word for it that it was made to him.”

Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason, 1794

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God is a ventriloquist dummy.

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True. All we really know about theistic religions is what other humans have told us.

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Yep. Funny that ain't it.

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