Stephen Prothero: God Is Not One - The Eight Rival Religions That Run the World

Stephen Prothero, religion scholar and bestselling author, discusses his book, "God Is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions That Run the World-And Why Their Differences Matter." Presented by Harvard Book Store.
This talk took place on May 6, 2010.

[@MichelleZhou]

My religion professor is obsessed with Prothero and worships him like a god

[@thoughtfuldevil6069]

Now all he needs is a body of rituals and a community and he'll have founded the religion of Protherism

[@TorianTammas]

@@thoughtfuldevil6069 Starting to claim he would never die would be a good start so that people can start to see him after his death.

[@stephenpowstinger733]

As an atheist I find religious studies interesting. Sadly, most religious types dismiss his book as false on the face of it.

[@ElearningDigest]

The book is 1,000 times more interesting than these public talks he gives.

[@tangiiaenjoy]

Out of many, one

[@RuthR]

God is One. John 10:30 " Father and I are One."

[@thoughtfuldevil6069]

That's only according to your religion, and your god. That's the point of the talk. God is not one, God is everything from Jesus to Shiva to Amaterasu. Understanding different religions is the key to peaceful coexistence, not forcing any one religion (or irreligion) on anyone.

[@tumarbongrox6074]

DON'T *•EVER•* use the BIBLE for *reference!!!* The BIBLE is *LOADED* with errors & *contradictions!!* The Bible has *THOUSANDS* of versions and the version that "most" Christians have adopted is the *KING JAMES VERSION* KING JAMES had the Bible translated into *HIS* version over *ONE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED* years after the death of Jesus. KING JAMES was a public & open *HOMOSEXUAL.* King James had sex with *young boys* and men at his pleasure. KING JAMES had numerous people *BRUTALLY* tortured and murdered. Many for mocking his homosexuality!! In Conclusion out of thousands of versions of the Bible, YOU choose to follow the version translated by a *PEDOPHILE* & MURDERER!! That's like living your life on a book thats been put together by *HITLER* or the KKK!!

[@stephenpowstinger733]

Ruth misses the whole point.

[@TorianTammas]

Ruth a dead preacher is no god.

[@donaldcoleman514]

can anyone show me in scripture where religion has anything to do with the most high man came up with religion exodus 24/12 tell us the most high gave moses tablets of stone of law and commandments never mention religion

[@geetaarth7142]

Every religion has its own God. Qualities of one religion's God are different from other religion's God. Similarly, all religions have different spiritual level.

[@raysalmon6566]

it does not help to be told that Judaism Christianity and Islam are essentially the same it doesn't serve diplomats or entrepreneurs working in India or to be told that Hinduism and Confucianism are equal it doesn't serve soldiers in Iraq or Afghanistan to be told that the Shia Islam of Iran is essentially the same as the Sunni Islam of Saudi Arabia what we need today is not pretend pluralism what we need is a clear-eyed look at the realities of the religions as they are both toxic and tonic both beautiful and ugly both similar and different as I see it there are three widespread views about the world's religions there is the clash of civilization views view which emphasizes difference and says that we have in our world an inherent and unavoidable clash between the Christian values of the West and the values of the Muslim world there SP luke 4 16 He went to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and on the Sabbath day he went into the synagogue, as was his custom. He stood up to read, 17 and the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. Unrolling it, he found the place where it is written: 18 “The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to set the oppressed free, 19 to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.”[f] 20 Then he rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant and sat down.

[@TorianTammas]

​@@raysalmon6566we should stop to elevate dead preacher to gods. This is so heathen.

[@raysalmon6566]

@@TorianTammas we should stop to elevate dead preacher to gods. This is so heathen. Matthew 22:31 But about the resurrection of the dead-have you not read what God said to you, 32 ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’[a]? He is not the God of the dead but of the living.” 33 When the crowds heard this, they were astonished at his teaching.

[@TorianTammas]

@@raysalmon6566 It doesn't tell us about a dead preacher becoming a god nor a dead preacher with a name. Hercules dies and becomes a god. Ceasar dies and becomes a god. Heathen cult Jesus!

[@raysalmon6566]

I should add about other forms of Christianity than those that are popular in the United States and so I argued in that book for mandatory public school courses on religion one on the Bible to address our domestic side of this problem and one on the world's religions to address the International side and I included in that book a dictionary of religious literacy where I included about a hundred terms such as five pillars of Islam or jihad these sorts of things and tried to define them in relatively compact ways that could be mathew 24 37 As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. 38 For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; 39 and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.

[@TorianTammas]

Based on a story you can't read as you don't speak keine greek, produced by foreign guys that marketed a cult. So you read cult advertisement about something that never happened. You are waiting while millions died claiming the same he will come back in my life time stuff. They are all dead and nothing happened.

[@thoughtfuldevil6069]

Your bottom text doesn't match with the top part.

[@aatifhasan3561]

If God is not One then Why is The Universe is one. Then why your own reality is one.the universe is very complex .but Obeys simple logic the logic of one. Open Challenge Can Anything in the universe be two.Use your mind find the answer. The Earth is one.The sun is one .you are one. And Finally The God is One.

[@stephenpowstinger733]

God is indeed not one.