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[–] Cold_Brew_Enema@lemmy.world 108 points 9 months ago (25 children)

The thing I love about religion is that there are thousands of them, yet yours is the correct one? Those are pretty low odds.

[–] TehBamski@lemmy.world 15 points 9 months ago (8 children)

Yeah... "thousands of them" is overexaggerated. That being said, there have been a lot of faiths, myths, and mysticism throughout human history..

Here's an interesting timeline of belief systems.

I grew up Mormon and had a hard time believing that we were the "true church," "taught the true teachings.," etc., when I learned about how many different current and old religions and beliefs people had throughout human history. Cracks started to form in my faith foundation then. The following thoughts throw me for a loop back then. Exibit A. Exibit B. Exibit C.

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