Do you have a religion?

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No flame here, just responding to Dossar's post. If you don't want to read it, don't click the spoiler!

I'm pretty sure these where rhetorical, but I'm gonna answer them anyway:

Originally Posted by DossarLX ODI

Which god is the real one? (So much violence has happened over this question, it's ridiculous)

The fact that nobody has any actual substantive evidence other than their holy books (and this isn't valid evidence either) leads me to believe that nobody does know, nor can they really know at this point in time which, if any, is the real one.

Originally Posted by DossarLX ODI

Why are there so many religions?

Religion tends to vary on geographical location. Going back to the time when the world wasn't so connected, people in their close circles all over the world developed their own brands (sects) of religion. This isn't just true of Americans being mostly Christian and Indians being mostly Hindu, etc, but even people in the Southern U.S. being Baptist and midwest being Catholic.

This is NOT assuming that there was one true religion to start out with and everyone branched from there, but our human nature drove us to try to create these divine, supernatural explanations for things we didn't yet understand (God of the gaps), and this small seed of unknowing evolved (ironically) into the religions we have today.

Originally Posted by DossarLX ODI

Why is God personified when in fact we'd be talking about an entity so powerful to create an entire universe that has no reason to exhibit any sort of human characteristics?

The Bible and Qu'ran both have something along the lines of "God created man in his own image", so people are just following the book here.

Originally Posted by DossarLX ODI

What basis do assumptions of God have to our current problems today?

People always have and will continue to do crazy things in the name of their God(s). See: islamist acts of terror, crusades, etc.. So in large part, religion is causing our current problems today. People like to cherry pick the Bible and preach that it's "the good news", but it's the same book that advocates slavery (Exodus 22), execution of homosexuals (Leviticus 20) in the same chapter that condemns adultery and the Long Island Medium. One might claim that they do not follow the old testament, but I personally don't understand why, since God is a being that is timeless (Isaiah 57) and Jesus is, in fact, God himself.