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grumpyduck

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3. I was wondering about this back in the 7th grade in a Catholic school

Reply to left-of-center2012 (Original post)

Mon Jul 29, 2019, 07:11 PM

Jul 2019

when of course I couldn't ask at the risk of being instantaneously obliterated.

How do we know that everyone who believes in a Higher Power, regardless of what they call it, doesn't believe in the same Higher Power?

The Romans and the Greeks had different names for their chief gods. Were there really two separate chief gods? Meanwhile the Egyptians, about the same time, had Amun-Ra (correct me if I'm wrong) and the Israelites had theirs. Then somewhere along the line came the Biblical God.

So how do we now they aren't all the same entity, just called by different names?

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