Finally got around to reading G. K. Chesterton's The Everlasting Man. Book's blowing me away. In short, Chesterton just became my new favorite author The book's philosophy, poetry and comedy rolled into one. I think it'd answer a bunch of the questions raised by apologists of all sides. If you can get it, by all means do. If you can't, . . . sorry

An excerpt though

Comparative religion is very comparative indeed. That is, it is so much a matter of degree and distance and difference that it is only comparatively successful when it tries to compare. When we come to look at it closely we find it comparing things that are really quite incomparable. We are accustomed to see a table or catalogue of the world's great religious founders all in a row: Christ; Mahomet; Buddha; Confucius. But in truth this is only a trick; another of these optical illusions by which any objects may be put into a particular relation by shifting to a particular point of sight. Those religions and founders, or rather those whom we choose to lump together as religions and religious founders, do not really show common character. The illusion is partly produced by Islam coming immediately after Christianity in the list; as Islam did come after Christianity and was largely an imitation of Christianity. But the other eastern religions, or what we call religions, not only do not resemble the Church but do not resemble each other. When we come to Confucianism at the end of the list, we come to something in a totally different world of thought. To compare the Christian and Confucian religions is like comparing a theist with an English squire or asking whether a man is a believer in immortality or a hundred-per-cent American. Confucianism may be a civilisation but it is not a religion.

Quote is from pp86-87. My copy is a September 1955 edition, don't know of any later editions.

Obviously, reader discretion is advised.

How is this a valid defense?

It is just p1mping up christianity against other religions

Logicboy03: How is this a valid defense?

It is just p1mping up christianity against other religions

Lol. Is his claim wrong?

Logicboy03: How is this a valid defense?

It is just p1mping up christianity against other religions

Isn't christianity higher than other religions?

CrazyMan:
Isn't christianity higher than other religions?

Of course, its blood-shedding can not be rivaled

Ihedinobi:

Lol. Is his claim wrong?

Yes because he is claiming that something isnt a religion or a real religion without defining what religion realy means

Logicboy03, The complexity of the human body alone, the cells , the tissues how all this serves for the growth body alone
will proves there is a divine creator behind all this? It is not a mistake ?

tip999: Logicboy03, The complexity of the human body alone, the cells , the tissues how all this serves for the growth body alone
will proves there is a divine creator behind all this? It is not a mistake ?

All it proves is evolution.

Logicboy03:

All it proves is evolution.

evolution? So what next do you atheists think the human race is going evolve into? an alien from outer space ? And if evolution is responsible how come it has stopped?

O.M.E:
evolution? So what next do you atheists think the human race is going evolve into? an alien from outer space ? And if evolution is responsible how come it has stopped?

Evolution hasnt stopped.

Logicboy03:


Evolution hasnt stopped.

hahahaha.. So what are you gonna turn into next..answer me

O.M.E:
hahahaha.. So what are you gonna turn into next..answer me

Why not ask god or a fortune teller to read the future for you?


Science doesnt deal with prophecy. How can one know what will happen in about a 1000 to 100,000 years?

@OP

Confucianism is an ideology. Sometimes seen as a religion, other times as a philosophy. It is a humanism that has influenced spiritual and political life in China and neither denies nor demeans heaven, but yet contains spiritual codes of conduct.

Like Jesus, Confucius never established a religion. They both taught ideologies. But after Christ, Christianity arose like a religion, while Confucianism didn't.

Thus I find fault with Chesterton's remark; Jesus and Confucius can actually be listed in comparative study; even if we say Confucianism and Christianity cannot.

Logicboy03:

Why not ask god or a fortune teller to read the future for you?


Science doesnt deal with prophecy. How can one know what will happen in about a 1000 to 100,000 years?

hahahha..guess you aren't as logical as your name depicts

O.M.E:
hahahha..guess you aren't as logical as your name depicts

Logicboy03:

good to know you have no answer to that question

O.M.E:
hahahha..guess you aren't as logical as your name depicts

Where is the question?

O.M.E:
good to know you have no answer to that question

Logicboy03:


Where is the question?

don't get it twisted I'l ask again..how come evolution has stopped

LOL Logicboy03 you're always bickering

O.M.E:
don't get it twisted I'l ask again..how come evolution has stopped

Evolution hasnt stopped. Humans are evolving.

I am tired of educating you. Dont take it as if I cant answer your question but I have lectured so many christians here on evolution.

InesQor: LOL Logicboy03 you're always bickering

It is not easy when faced with tiresome questions

Logicboy03:


Evolution hasnt stopped. Humans are evolving.

I am tired of educating you. Dont take it as if I cant answer your question but I have lectured so many christians here on evolution.

then you have been a bad teacher...I know you can't answer..its all good..case closed

O.M.E:
then you have been a bad teacher...I know you can't answer..its all good..case closed

There you have it! A christian tool unwilling to learn from google about evolution claiming victory!

Logicboy03:

There you have it! A christian tool unwilling to learn from google about evolution claiming victory!

google?? So haa google vs the word of God..your choice

O.M.E:
google?? So haa google vs the word of God..your choice

Google answers questions....millions of them.


God doesnt answer...

Logicboy03:


Google answers questions....millions of them.


God doesnt answer...

you can't expect God to talk with someone like you..

O.M.E:
you can't expect God to talk with someone like you..

lol....are you berra than me?

InesQor: @OP

Confucianism is an ideology. Sometimes seen as a religion, other times as a philosophy. It is a humanism that has influenced spiritual and political life in China and neither denies nor demeans heaven, but yet contains spiritual codes of conduct.

Like Jesus, Confucius never established a religion. They both taught ideologies. But after Christ, Christianity arose like a religion, while Confucianism didn't.

Thus I find fault with Chesterton's remark; Jesus and Confucius can actually be listed in comparative study; even if we say Confucianism and Christianity cannot.

Will address this later. Quoted for reference.

Logicboy03:


lol....are you berra than me?

are you asking if there is a difference between an atheist and a christian??...yh sure there is a pretty good difference

O.M.E:
are you asking if there is a difference between an atheist and a christian??...yh sure there is a pretty good difference

Whatever.

Logicboy03:


Whatever.

yeah whatever... also tired of arguing with you

Logicboy03:


Google answers questions....millions of them.

this boy really needs to develop a mind of its own.

You really need to develop a mental capacity of deducting rational independent inferences for yourself that will serve you well based on your personal experience.

Most people that you copy from (around the world) have varied experiences that had influence them in diverse ways tilting their notion to a certain direction that will serve their particular aim/purpose which will on the contrary not serve any useful purpose for your own "particular person" and life.

Copying all you see without "originality" = futility.
Peace