FACT:
If you've only studied one religious tradition, your religious opinions are incomplete and distorted.
Some religious traditions are more complete and less distorted than others, but they are all distorted and they are all incomplete.
FACT:
If you've only studied one religious tradition, your religious opinions are incomplete and distorted.
Some religious traditions are more complete and less distorted than others, but they are all distorted and they are all incomplete.
How do you know that is a fact? This is a self-refuting statement.
For the same reason a German speaker can tell if someone is faking that they can speak German.
For the same reason that a molecular biologist can tell if someone is faking that they've taken organic chemistry.
When someone has studied multiple religious traditions not for the purpose of heresy hunting, but rather in the spirit of the Golden Rule, the consilience of their common teachings can be distilled.
It requires dropping the familial ego bullshit, i.e. "MY family taught ME all the right teachings." I dropped that decades ago.
It also takes a lot of proof of work. Adherents to a single religious tradition lack that proof of work.
I know that i know nothing.
That's a great starting point and the main focus of one of my favorite songs from one of my favorite bands. Most people don't even get to that point, so good on you. Many people study one, maybe two traditions, then stop, believing they've found the answers.
That analogy has a fallacy, there is an end to speak german. There is no end to knowledge.
You can study religions to find truth.
Yes there is.
In order to reunite with God who is omniscient, we must collect all knowledge across many lifetimes and across multiple dimensions/densities/planes/heavens.
This is vanity, just drop it dude. Jesus loves you, he waits with open arms ready to give you His awesome gift of Grace you just need to accept it. Stop laboring and rest.
Christianity is complete.
I’ve dabbled around. Helps a bunch. 90% of teachings are the same across the majors
Same can be said for many topics
One only has the information they’ve received thus far