Monday, June 19, 2006

A Plethora of Religion

Let's face it, our world is inundated with religions and for any seeker trying to learn about them and find themselves the "truth" there can be much confusion. In my earlier post I laid out the 3 fundamental laws of truth for religion. Any true religion must obey these three laws. This will be the start of a series analyzing all religions based on these laws (as well as others discovered as we go along) Hopefully coming to some sort of conclusion or at least clearing up the field a bit. As we begin here's a list of religions (using the term loosely) which will be analyzed.
Added to the three laws will be a (sometimes tentative) analysis as to the groups goals and whether the system can (or likely will) succeed at achieving them. (A belief system that can be found entirely incapable of achieving it's stated goals would undoubtedly be false based on the fact that if the religion were true it would have at least a chance of success. An example would be a cult that believes it's members by chopping off their limbs will learn to fly).

Judaism [1]
Evangelical Christian (defined as Christians who claim the bible is 100% literal)
Christian (all other Christians except Catholics)
Catholics
Jehovah's Witnesses
Mormons (Latter Day Saints)
Islam
Christian Identity
Christian Science
Scientology
Gnosticism
Sikhism
Hinduism
Buddhism
Taoism
Shinto
Zoroastrianism
Amerindian indigen (beliefs of American Indian Indigenous Tribes)
Druidism
Celtic Paganism
Witchcraft (Wicca)
Odinism (Asatru)
GreccoRoman pantheism
Aborigine (Beliefs of Australian aborigines)
Baha'i
Confucianism
Jainism
Vodun (Voodoo)
Cult of Isis (Goddess worship)
Santeria (also Cult of Elian)
Hare Krishna
Gypsies
Satanism
Unitarian-Universalism
Creativity Movement
Goth
New Age
Kabalah
Lucifarans (Cult of Lucifer)
Cult of Silence

Finally so that this post is more then just a list I will answer a much discussed question among Christians, which is "Is faith more important than doing good works?"
The answer is that the two go together. Anyone of true faith will do good upon the earth and thus with faith you get both. You can do good without faith however; therefore faith is more important then good works, as you will never have (true) faith and a lack of good works.

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