Christianity is NOT one of the worlds great religions

Since the dawn of humanity, man has sought to reach, connect, and often appease some form of deity.  Planet Earth from east to west, north to south is filled with religions.

All roads point to god, don’t they?  Christians, Jews, Muslims, Buddists, Hindus, Krishna, Scientology, B’hai, Kaballah, Unitarian:

Don’t they all contain truths that connect to god?

Some would say Christianity with its’ many forms and denominations, that  even Christians can’t agree on their beliefs ... Christianity is just ONE of the worlds great religions ...

Atheism itself is a religion.

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Religion:

You may be surprised to know this but religion is unique only to humans.  There is some deep rooted instinct that is common to all human cultures and that is some form of religious expression or experience.  From the emphasis on the sun, moon, and stars to the deities for all objects and circumstances, only humans attend to such pursuits.  Paying homage or obesence to a higher being, to seek the blessing or to appease the deity of the land, harvest, fertility, good, evil, light, darkness, is purely a human endeavor.  Even the option to ignore a god altogether and seek to make ones life better and more wholesome through personal effort and spirituality, is once again, purely human expressions.  It all comes down to one simple heading, “religion.”

From earliest historic records to modern man, even among primitive simple cultures, there is an expression of something greater or in charge that causes one to seek to adore or appease.  From simple dance to the ultimate of human sacrifice there is some thread of religious expression in all societies and cultures,

Great meeting places have been constructed all over the world,  The great temples in the Orient, the Roman and Greek ruins, the hanging gardens, the pyramids, the Mayan and Aztec societies, Stonehenge, the great Cathedrals of Europe, the Temple Mount and controversy it brings in the “Holy Land”  all speak of the historical significance of religion in culture.

Here in the United States we too have the evidence.  American history seems short compared to that of Europe, Asia, and Africa, but evidence of native American cultures show burial mounds and other remnants that show they too had a connection to the great spirit.  Our own history of Christianity that was the basis for the creation of this new republic was to allow freedom of religious worship and expression.  Thus we have historic buildings as well as churches small and mega, city, suburbs and rural.

Along the way others have constructed the vast Mormon Tabernacle, the Scientology building in Los Angeles, and more recently Islamic centers around our own nation.  All testamony to religion in American life.  There is even a group of leaders and concerned citizens who have created an awareness organization to promote cultural understanding of the various religious expressions in America.

Not one other creature on earth has built an altar, held a worship service, erected a meeting place. Nowhere in history can one find even societal animal species that have created monuments to the sun, moon, stars, or some deity.  Unless one can prove a wolf howling at the moon is an expression of worship, or the singing of birds in the morning, it would appear that only humankind has the need to seek after God.


I doesn't take a great leap of faith to comprehend that the creator, GOD, according to the Bible made humankind in "his own image and likeness." Further, He did so for the purpose of having fellowship and companionship with humans.  Further still, is seems possible that the need inside of humanity to connect with God is like an adopted child seeking to reconnect with birth parents.  It seems innate to the very soul.  Humans who have adopted all these various religions are akin to a child growing up in a home but no DNA connection to the adoptive parents.  The DNA cries out to connect with itself.

Although I could easily believe that all creation, animals and plants in some unique way expresses gratitude to the true and living God, only the one created in his image seems to reject Him and turn away.

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