What are the doomsday signs in all the religions?
Are their any similar ones? one's that point to the same events or happenings???
I'm looking for one's that occur in all religions - like for instance famine and pestilence occur in the Bible and the Quran. But do they occur in religious texts of other religions?
(11-02-2008 11:19 PM)Shine_On Wrote: [ -> ]What are the doomsday signs in all the religions?
Are their any similar ones? one's that point to the same events or happenings???
I'm looking for one's that occur in all religions - like for instance famine and pestilence occur in the Bible and the Quran. But do they occur in religious texts of other religions?
Yours are really interesting questions and I apologize for not specifically addressing them. But I think that it’s important to understand these alleged “doomsday” signs so that they don’t become self-fulfilling prophesy.
Here’s the thing, If one makes enough prophesies, some will eventually (likely because they become self-fulfilling), come to fruition. So some prophesies may / could have been fulfilled and some have not. That doesn’t suggest the holy book
de jour or your god(s) is either reliable or accurate. That also doesn’t bode well for the perfect god(s) or the perfect, uncreated word of god(s). In all discussions of "chance", one must remember that the question of whether or not a given product of any process arose by chance or by intent only becomes significant if it can be demonstrated that the product was the goal of that process, and not merely a result of the process. Religions consistently fail to do this.
Religions (and more importantly – the inventors of the religions), have been making the same grandiose claims for the “end times” for as long as man has invented them. That the religion confers a special status to these authorities is of no consequence, as Scientologists confer a special status to their "spiritual leader", neither this fact nor the antiquity of the Christian folk being dead (or for that matter Mohammed or David Koresh or Jim Jones, etc.) is in anyway legitimized one over the other. BTW, each of these men have made grandiose claims of self-importance, each claiming those who follow different paths are doomed to eternal torment.
I’m not inclined to be bullied into believing one religion is true vs. another.
What I don’t understand is the propensity of some religions to engender a hateful attitude toward mankind, (we're all loathsome sinners). Hoping for a dramatic end to humanity is more cult fiction than reality. It’s also a prescription for a maladjusted personality. It's too bad that religions cultivate such attitudes. I actually see little difference in the shiite vision of a global apocalypse to bring forth their mahdi vs. the fundi Christian vision of their god(s) wiping out humanity, (again).
Both of these worldviews represent a psychosis of self hate. The problem of course is that fundies believe in a vision of a flawed humanity that deserves destruction. Those who are in a position to cause societies to then inch closer to enabling the events that may cause widespread destruction are a danger to themselves and others. They actually create these self fulfilling prophecies.