Albert Einstein created his own religion, except he was the only believer in it and he had never given his religion a name or started a church or anything like that.
February 17th, 2010 at 12:55am
I'm pretty sure a religion has to has followers to be classified as a religion... meaning, more than one follower.
- Geist:
- Albert Einstein created his own religion, except he was the only believer in it and he had never given his religion a name or started a church or anything like that.
No need to put it so bluntly then.
- Katrina Amanda:
- I think creating your own religion is a load of bull.
but hey, that's my own opinion.
opinions are usually very blunt, it takes a lot of "sharpening" through thought to make an effective edge of a good argument. xD
- And Sing:
- No need to put it so bluntly then.
Weren't all religions created way back at some point though? I mean they can't have just... been.
- Katrina Amanda:
- I think creating your own religion is a load of bull.
but hey, that's my own opinion.
Anyone claiming to be a prophet these days would be called schizophrenic.
- The Doctor:
- I think that if only one person believes in a religion, ithey could be called schizophrenic.
If I was to make up a religion, I'd keep the people very very scared and squeeze as much money out of them as possible.
I think I'd be a very ruthless cult leader.
They came from "visions" and whatnot. Which is sort of ridiculous, if you think about it. Worshipping something you saw in a dream?
- Alexface.:
- Weren't all religions created way back at some point though? I mean they can't have just... been.
They came from "visions" and whatnot. Which is sort of ridiculous, if you think about it. Worshipping something you saw in a dream?
- Alexface.:
- Weren't all religions created way back at some point though? I mean they can't have just... been.
Most religions overlap each other anyway, so when you mix them, you get mostly the same general idea. It's just like mixing chocolate, dark chocolate, and milk chocolate. They're different, but they're still chocolate.
- Calico Jack:
- Back when I went to church, the pastor had a sermon about mixing religions. He said that some actor (I think it was Johnny Depp) likes to take bits and pieces from other religions and mix them together to form his on sort of religion. The pastor explained that it would end up being a disasterous mix, and demonstrated it by mixing together different things- ketchup, chocolate sauce, eggs, etc.
I always thought it was a bit unfair. Who says that bits of Buddhism would be like ketchup while bits of Christianity were like chocolate? What if Buddhism was peanut butter, Christianity was chocolate, Islam was caramel, and Hinduism was vanilla? I think that would be rather delicious.
Now, I kind of agree with the pastor, but then again, I also think all religions are just mythical.
Sometimes dreams come true. Is that ridiculous?
- Taptapspindrown:
- They came from "visions" and whatnot. Which is sort of ridiculous, if you think about it. Worshipping something you saw in a dream?
Yeh well maybe that's a coincidence. But my dad's had this recurring dream of a house in the country which up until recently he had NEVER seen in his life, EVER. Then we saw it on one of our forays into the country. Up north of Perth. Freaky.
- Calico Jack:
- ^I think that's just a coincidence. I once had a dream that my dog died. 2 months later, she was hit by a car and killed. Does it mean that I had a vision, or was it simply something I was thinking about subconsciously after having just finished Where the Red Fern Grows?