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Re: Can religion be viewed as a philosophy based mainly on some God to be worshiped?
No. Many "religions" don't have gods as such, yet they are religions. Except for Islam, probably all other religions have been changed through time according to the wil of the people. For e.g several "versions" of the Bible are out there , all based on different peoples approach to live , not God.
Religion can be viewed as a philosophy based mainly on interpreting life. How different people think life SHOULD be lived is religion.
Re: Can religion be viewed as a philosophy based mainly on some God to be worshiped?
Religion is not a philosophy but there is such a thing called religious philosophy.
And most religious philosphies have little to do with god. There's an example of such in #2 right here - the part about holding one religion holier than all others, even while acknowledging ("probably") they have no idea what they are talking about!
Re: Can religion be viewed as a philosophy based mainly on some God to be worshiped?
All the religions except Islam, use religion as political tool for managing masses of people. The best example is catholicism founded by Constantine in Rome.
Re: Can religion be viewed as a philosophy based mainly on some God to be worshiped?
Don't understand what you're saying. Then what does an Islamic Law and Islamic ountry mean? Isn't that using Islam to manage people?
Re: Can religion be viewed as a philosophy based mainly on some God to be worshiped?
nah cause Islam is managing individuals within thier own circle of life and belief while others manage masses of people for mere worldly benefits.
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I disagree!! “Islam is the way of life,” that’s the notion we have all believed in ever since the rise of Islam. Islam (Qur’an) is like a constitution and no other religion ever acquainted such detailed rules to the mankind before Islam. Islam was anounced complete with the revelation of the Quran. How else would Mohammad (SAW) have managed the illiterate nation (Arabs)?
Re: Can religion be viewed as a philosophy based mainly on some God to be worshiped?
i am currently studying philosophy of religion at college an yes religion was looked through a philosiphical bases, if u look at da arguments such as the telelogical argument an the moral argument ect there is a view of God through philosophy.
Re: Can religion be viewed as a philosophy based mainly on some God to be worshiped?
There has to be..
Re: Can religion be viewed as a philosophy based mainly on some God to be worshiped?
Philosophy basicaly means "love for wisdom,truth or knowledge" it sets out to find strong meanings which are found in life, for example the cocept that God has created our world. Some philosophers dont believe in the fact God has created our world there for they have set out to find diffrent explanations of how the world came into existence, there were some muslim socholars who have put arguments against these arguemts for example the kalm argument. If u would like to gain more understanding on this then i suggest u look at the Onotological argument, teleological argument, moral argument, cosmological argument or the argument of religious experience.
Re: Can religion be viewed as a philosophy based mainly on some God to be worshiped?
There is but one God.
Every religion is a path to God. So how can the path be better than God.
Re: Can religion be viewed as a philosophy based mainly on some God to be worshiped?
Re: Can religion be viewed as a philosophy based mainly on some God to be worshiped?
This is a profound note, and one that I admire you for considering. It is one I have thought of in the past as well. My question is this - if religions are all paths to the same God, why does every one zealously claim itself to be the only path? If the Bible of the Quran, or other religious texts that claim to be divinely inspired, are all right, they cannot logically claim that all others in the same field are wrong. The conclusion I’m forced to come to, by way of rational, is that either a single one is the whole truth, or all of them are half lies.
Re: Can religion be viewed as a philosophy based mainly on some God to be worshiped?
why would god make people worship him through several religions??
who did decide that religions lead to the same god??
what is a god… is he(she) the creator who deserve to be worshiped or the one(s) who is(are) worshipped?
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well i agree that some religions dont have a “gods” as such but i m not agree that its with all.why u say that some versions of Bible are "based on different people to live,not God"do u want to say that we interpret the way how we should live like we want( i mean christians)?
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Philosophy is the unrestrained pursuit of truth whereas religion is a blind supposition...In philosophy, the source of knowledge (and the means and process of knowing...) are not something beyond human comprehension and existence e.g. divinity, angels, intitution, wahi, etc. but rather rooted in the human himself/herself i.e. in his/her rationaql faculty /reasoning ability...
Philosophical approach is skeptical that would put every thing to inquiry...there is no ultimate truth in philosophy...Religious approach is absolutist that would make things ultimate and unchanging...
However, some religious scholars have tried to bring a concordance between philosophy and reliogion or have used philosopy to prove the divine...
Re: Can religion be viewed as a philosophy based mainly on some God to be worshiped?
What good is any religion if it does not do you and the people around you any good. So if you are a good person and were raised as a non-religious person then inshAllah you are are of the forgiven.
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So what is the Shia-Sunni conflict based on? It is commonly acknowledged that the basis for this conflict originally was political.
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There is just as much justification to believe that there is one God as there is to believe there are an infinite number of Gods or there are zero Gods. Your so called paths to Gods are very Earth-centric. Example, to consider Jerusalem or Kashi or Makka as the holiest place ordained by God to be such is incompatible with the infinite universe we live in. How is a being on some planet revolving around our nearest start Serius supposed to prostrate in the direction of Makka to read namaz or go to Kashi to wash his sins or go to wailing wall to pray? So can good muslims only exists on the earth? And good Hindus within flying distance to Kashi? If there is one God surely he is not as Earth-centric as all our religions would have us believe.
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shabash!
religion is a part of our societal organisation. They are justifications to hard rules that people have to follow in order to make coherent societies. These united nations are more easily ruled and oppressed by powerfull leaders. The main aim being obviously concentration of powers to gain wealth! or the reverse:D .
I guess it is the reason why islam being the latest one is also the more achieved, as being designed to fit to a modern world than previous ones…more modern meaning more strict, more concentrated…so even more oppressive for ordinary poor subjet of the califat.In a world where human is lost far away from its root (that lie in nature) God is a refugee, religion is a frame organising life and setting rules to avoid despair and anarchy