# Multiplicity of religions: Part of God's plans?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multiplicity-of-religions-part-of-gods-plans/146495>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [January 3, 2003, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multiplicity-of-religions-part-of-gods-plans/146495 "2003-01-03T21:24:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2003, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multiplicity-of-religions-part-of-gods-plans/146495/41 "2003-01-05T22:25:05Z")

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Urban Ranger wrote:

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> P.S. What’s the deal with the capitalised “God?”

Proper name.

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**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2003, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multiplicity-of-religions-part-of-gods-plans/146495/42 "2003-01-06T11:20:36Z")

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(Sorry, I missed your earlier post)

Urban Ranger wrote:

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> Politics? Could you give me an example of that?

Lordy, oodles of them. Popes. Elders. Deacons. High Holy Pubahs, and the like. Men presuming authority over other men and using the church to further their own political and personal gain, all the while representing their body politic as the Body of Christ.

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> That does not make “every moral journey” (whatever that means) unique. People do not have unique reactions to each and every possible combinations of possible situations, they react to classes/groups/categories of them.

Every point is definitively unique within the chronosynclasticinfundibulum.

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> When did “moral journey” become religion all of a sudden?

There’s nothing sudden about it: I’ve talked about this for more than three years now.

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**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2003, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multiplicity-of-religions-part-of-gods-plans/146495/43 "2003-01-06T12:01:21Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Musicat \*  
> \*\*If only all the gods would compete and slug it out. Then we would know which one was the real one, or at least the most powerful, and we could all worship correctly. \*\*

My money’s on [Kali](http://www1.fctv.ne.jp/~masala/kali.jpg). That lady’s mean.

Seriously though, one for the pantheists - if one accepts all religious ways as being differing manners of representing a universal truth, how does one regard religions that worship a [living deity](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/1439384.stm)? Do you regard her worshippers as misguided, or is Kumari _actually_ divine?

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**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2003, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multiplicity-of-religions-part-of-gods-plans/146495/44 "2003-01-06T14:02:14Z")

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_Every_thing is divine, **jjimm** , since it is all part of the Ultimate Ground of Being.

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