(08-20-2021, 03:40 PM)Critic Wrote: The best source to both understand and defend any religion, comes from those in that religion.
Believers certainly have vested interest in defending their own religion, that's true. As for understanding: [...]According to data released by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life (2009 survey), not only do a quarter of Americans believe in reincarnation, but 24 percent of American Christians expressed a belief in reincarnation.[...]* It seems to be lacking.
Quote:Looking at it from outside of the religion often fails to see the bigger picture with the right framework and so they weaken any of the persoectives of that religion that work with each other and give a philosophical structure to it.
So you mean to say that when person who isn't indoctrinated looks on the religion then said person does not see anything special but bullshit like in any other myth? Seems to be quite right.
Quote:Though looking at a religion as an outsider is a great tool to help question a religion and make sure the people or the religion is actually doing right, in order to defend a religion, any religion. It has to come from those inside the religion itself. Sorry I'll pass on atheist debunking religions as contradicting itself when seen from an atheist mindset, just as much as I would pass on any other religion debunking another philosophy or religion as being contradicting.
Christian not wanting to hear truth about fairy tales he believes in. What a surprise.
*https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2015/10/21/25-percent-us-christians-believe-reincarnation-whats-wrong-picture
There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.
Socrates.
Socrates.
