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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Christianity is a failure of imagination. You claim that there is some "Absolute Authority" that put in place moral laws. Yet you follow a particular book that was "revealed" to a particular set of people in a particular place at a particular time. Most people that have ever lived have probably never even encountered these particular books. So how can they be the sole source of Absolute Authority?

If you want to talk about universal truths - then I would point out that people in societies as divergent as medieval Europe, ancient greece, and modern Japan have independently reached the conclusion that the god/gods do not exist. People can independently reach the same conclusion about the truth of atheism, but two people with no contact - direct or indirect- could never develop the same religion.

To take an example - if you killed every Christian and burned every bible and religious text, [b]that would be the end of Christianity. B[/b]ut if you killed every atheist and burned every atheist text, atheism would be rediscovered. Why? Because it is universal. As long as their are humans, we have only humans to fall back on for our morality - everything else is just play-acting.[/quote]

The failure of your imaginative argument is that you don't understand that what you call the "book that was 'revealed'" is actually a compilation of several books that were revealed to different people over time. If the message has been revealed to different people at different times (even if always in the Middle East), then why couldn't the message be revealed once again, after the massacre of Christians you're rooting for?

You miss another key point. Philosophers and theologians have pointed out many commonalities between Christian and Buddhist values and truths. Similar messages taking different forms for different peoples kinda disproves your whole thesis.

And why pick on Christianity, BTW?[/quote]

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