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Originally Posted by Topher
I agree with religion, I am an active member in my church, so I didn't mean to bash one side or the other. If Religion was the solid base, if there was ONE God or higher power, why do we have so many different religions? Are they one in the same? Are we talking about the same being in each, but through the eyes of different people?
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It's a good question. The analogy I tend to use to answer it is it's like a group of people trying to discover the perfect house - they all have the same basic notion of what a house is and what is required for one, but beyond that they're arguing like mad over the size of the house, the number of doors and windows, what it's made of and the decor. They're all still trying to get to this perfect house but different perspectives mean they don't quite match up. The atheist in the analogy would simply say "There's no such thing as a perfect house".
Hope that makes sense - it's a bad rendition of it but it gets the basic point across.