kingblaze84
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zzombie;9244286 said:kingblaze84;9243638 said:zzombie;9242468 said:kingblaze84;9242282 said:zzombie;9241837 said:kingblaze84;9240746 said:zzombie;9239950 said:Zoroastrianism argument just needs to be dead because clearly it makes no sense and to make it make sense you have to fill in too many blanks.
AS for the Egyptian influences i will admit Egypt had some influence on the Jews but not the core beliefs of the Jewish religion. ALL the comparison to Horus have been debunked a long time ago shit if people would just read the bible they would have seen that any comparison is false and is nothing more than a stretch.
first of all if you are talking about the egyptian gods which version of events are you going with??? the stories of Egyptian mythology have multiple endings, character changes and differences for the same events
Yahweh has some unique characteristics, I'll admit to that, but it's just one of many gods at the end of the day. No more impressive then the rest.
To you maybe.... but in reality the belief in this god in some form has basically been ruling humanity for hundreds of years and no other deity in human history has done that. If that alone does not send off some bells in your head then you are just being willfully ignorant.
in most places on earth today if you mention GOD to someone they are automatically going to think of the God of abraham and that's pretty impressive
The Abrahamic god isn't ruling humanity though, I don't see it in Norway or Sweden where most people are non-religious. It's not seen in China or North Korea where the government is officially atheist. Don't see it in Iraq where thousands of Christians were killed off or enslaved, is this the ruling of humanity I'm supposed to be impressed with?
People throughout the world have different ideas on who or what god is, when I think of "god", I think of all the thousands of gods that have supposedly existed or exist out there. There is no one god, people throughout the world pray to all kinds of different gods, Jews only make up 1 percent of the world and it's questionable if Muslims even worship the same god as Christians do. So no, I'm not really impressed with the Abrahamic god lol
I was not being so literal but even those nations you mentioned have a christian heritage.... and it's even seen in their flag the yellow cross on the swedish flag represents Christianity. CHINA has a growing and young christian population
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...ds-most-Christian-nation-within-15-years.html
Noth korea is an insane hermit kingdom and really cannot be compared to anyplace or talked about too reliably
I did not SAY CHRISTIANITY WAS RULING EVERYWHERE, you are selectively reading again. i said the god of abraham was basically ruling humanity so what i was saying is that the influence of the belief in the god most people think abraham worshipped is ubiquitous, and that includes the entire islamic world because THEY THINK THEY ARE WORSHIPING THE GOD OF ABRAHAM AND THAT THE REST OF US ARE JUST DOING IT WRONG. But the fact still remains that their conception of god is drawn from abraham.
Most people through out this world, when they stop and ponder on god are stoping to think of the god of abraham, that includes all of africa,south america and the vast majority of north america and the scattered millions of people in asia and even europe still has a christian population especially in russia a place that was once officially atheist now has a resurgent Christian population.
"Christianity in Russia is by some estimates the largest religion in the country, with nearly 50% of the population identifying as Christian. The largest tradition is the Russian Orthodox Church. By official information, there are 68 eparchies of Russian Orthodox Church."
Just because many people are Christian and Muslim throughout the world doesn't mean the Abrahamic god is active, it doesn't change the fact that the Bible or Islamic god isn't physically seen in the secular and non-religious countries of the world. China and some other nations still have an officially atheist government, I don't see any higher power changing that.
About 54% of the world belongs to an Abrahamic faith in some way, but that means BILLIONS OF PEOPLE are not part of that religious family tree, about 3 billion plus. The Abrahamic family tree is not an impressive one honestly, considering the way Muslims, Jews and Christians treat each other in the Middle East. It's a dysfunctional, chaotic family tree that has helped spawn some of the biggest misery around the planet according to many former Muslims and Christians.
So one way or the other, billions of people around the world don't really see the so called Abrahamic god. And the fact that so many Muslims around the world have so little respect for Christians and Jews that they are among the most hated people in the Middle East is pretty sad and pathetic. How ironic the Abrahamic god can't even bring people of its own dysfunctional family tree together.
lol this guy... according to the bible and other religious texts the power of god can be seen in the power and influence of his believers. WHATEVER OFFICIAL position the government has on religion is irrelevant because the people themselves are changing. The american government has many official positions on things that the average american disagrees on, you cannot judge the positions of a people on the positions of their government especially when that government is a one party dictatorship like china. WHERE ARE YOU GETTING THESE NUMBERS FROM??? i'VE HAD THIS CONVERSATION WITH YOU MANY TIMES ALREADY and you know very well that due to the nature of relgion it is impossible to properly assign these percentages all you can make is large estimates, for example you can has that pakistan is muslim but you cannot say that 12% of pakistan is christian because it would be totally impossible to actually know
but by land mass the god of abraham is clearly winning because it was multiple continents on lock and the nations and peoples that are actually experiencing growth are those will many of his adherents nations. T
LMAO the god of Abraham isn't winning shit. It's as lazy as it's ever been.
Is Allah saving the poor Muslims from global warming in Syria and Iraq? Nope, water and soil erosion is still all over there, making wars for resources more and more brutal.
Is Jesus saving the poor Christians in the Middle East, the ones who are still enslaved and worse? Nope, Jesus ain't doing nothing.
Has the Bible god done anything to help solve the massive pollution and poverty in Brazil and other Christian nations? Did Jesus protect Africa from the evil imperialists of Europe? HAHA Nope, all I see is laziness all around. People in some places are Muslim and Christian and 1% are Jewish, but I don't see this so called Abrahamic "god" doing anything to save or protect its people.
So nope, I don't see the god of Abraham winning anywhere, in fact where the god of Abraham is preached and worshipped, violence and chaos is often present. This is not a track record to be proud of, Muslims hate Christians in the Middle East so much that even in refugee camps all over the Middle East, Christians are still targets of persecution and violence. Don't act like there is some grand unity between Muslims and Christians, you can't stand Muslims and admit to hating them.