What do you think if this theory of religion?

[AFerri48]

I recently read a book written by John Dewey, called A Common Faith, and in it he pretty much states that religion is as an orientation of life towards ideal possibilities. I take this as meaning that all religion is driven and based around an ideal possibility.

I realize that our religion is based around Jesus Christ, however the reason God sent down Jesus in the first place was to save us from our sins and allow us to eventually get to Heaven. And Heaven is clearly THE ideal possibility for all of us. So, I feel that he has a point.

Do you agree?

 

[Karen107]

Hi…I believe all religions has the way to find peace… or what some call nirvana in this life… But only one, the Christian religion, actually shows us the ‘way’ to heaven and that is through Jesus Christ… Who is the way, the truth and the life… No one goes to the Father, in this or the next life, except through Jesus Christ… Thats why we are followers of Jesus and not some other ‘god’… Jesus is God from God, true God from true God…

Do I believe our Christian religion it’s based on an ideal, no, I believe its based on truth… The truth that there is One Universal God maker of heaven and earth…

 

[tm21]

I would be extremely careful with digesting the works of Dewey along with nearly all the modern philosophers who explicitly deny that man has a supernatural, immortal, and rational soul, and hence come to shockingly errant conclusions regarding the nature of reality and truth.

 

[Sacred_Heart_1]

I recently read a book written by John Dewey, called A Common Faith, and in it he pretty much states that religion is as an orientation of life towards ideal possibilities. I take this as meaning that all religion is driven and based around an ideal possibility.

I realize that our religion is based around Jesus Christ, however the reason God sent down Jesus in the first place was to save us from our sins and allow us to eventually get to Heaven. And Heaven is clearly THE ideal possibility for all of us. So, I feel that he has a point.

Do you agree?

There is so much more to religion than ideal possibilities. Take suffering for instance, religion tries to make sense of it in this life. That is an orientation of life–to rationalize and overcome suffering.