Judaism too, but that's kind of interlocked with christianity. It occupies the same umbrella in my mind.

for sure!

travelling and dating/being friends with people from different religions huge for that too.

being open minded and accepting of peoples beliefs opens the world up to you

ya christianity, judaism and islam are all abrahamic faiths that branched off the same source material.

in univeirsty i only really studied abrahamic faiths i have a big blind spot for hinduism and buddishm

For sure

Christianity and Judaism are more intertwined in my mind, but Islam is obviously in that same grouping

The development of the abrahamic faiths vs the eastern religions is super interesting

ya!

although islam is closer to christianity in some ways because jesus was a prophet in islam

then christianity did the jewish thing and reject muhammed.

islam the one that just takes all the prophets in

ya and my undertsanding (which could be wrong) is there’s some overlap in beliefs with hinduism and buddishm. its not unlike the abrahamic faiths. but i think the split is a bigger split

I don't think he went out of his way to create that as much as it was necessary for the bad to exist as an alternative for the good to be considered good

Unless there was just no ability to choose and make decisions, which some would consider to be cruel

this is tangentially related, but i find it funny that the upside down cross is considered a satanic symbol when its just st. peter’s cross who wanted to be crucified upside down because he didnt want to be compared to jesus.

what is that all about

what are the coolest things u learned about this topic in university

Satan just tried to takeover and got felt so personally offended he banished him to hell forever

Like yeah it wasn't nice but that's some control freak stuff to do imo

Now even anyone who gets close to following that idea also goes to hell forever unless they say sorry

It's an edgy teenager complaint to bring up but like any reasonable person would realize that's really mean

my 2 favourite things i learned was that people have been able to trace back the authors of multiple version of the same story. like genesis. and that a group of priests tried to fit these duplicate stories into one story and because of it the bible repeats itself at certain sections.

and my other favourite is how closely based on religious stories and morals most books, movies and stories in general are even if it isnt deliberate. the framework for how they operate can almost always be traced back to biblical stories

This is pretty meta and might not be satisfying to everyone, but my point is that every single idea and concept has to come from the uncaused cause. The ideas of "alternatives" and "opposites" are included within that. The framework of reality that we have to reason within operates within the bounds of those concepts. The original, eternal, uncaused cause, by necessity, had to be the one to create and define them in the first place.

also that theres still new research being done on things in the bible. like that mary magdalene (different mary than who gave birth to jesus) was arguably the most important disciple and her role got overlooked for thousands of years because of sexism in the church. she was the first person to see jesus after he was resurrected.

or that there are a lot of events that happened in the bible that were thought to be myths but since the 60s with new technology theres been historical evidence to corroborate the events.

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this real dust

No you're totally right

It's (roughly) like looking at two different evolutionary trees

Shared stories and social ideas permeate all of the abrahamic religions, but not the eastern ones, and vice versa.

me when i meet @Extraterrestrial

But I think some of this just comes like from creation inherently

Like there literally can not be good without there being bad, there wouldn't have been a way to create that, they are connected. He wouldn't have been able to make good.

So he consciously made the decision to create good and at the same time also made bad, he knew this and told everyone what was required to be considered good, and then they acted against those requirements

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