Truth is random! (Part 1)

The more I read religious philosophy the more I find it its interpretation fuzzy and self contradictory. But why is it so?

Because any sincere attempt at philosophy has to be comprehensive and has to integrate and interpret all reality and facts of life. The comprehensiveness of such an interpretation has to reflect the nature of reality itself. But reality is self-contradictory or random. We live in a world where a soldier who loves his neighbor to death is ready to kill his country's enemy (who he doesn't even know) without a second thought. The way religious philosophy deals with this randomness is to inject abstraction. For example: God is Great - is as an abstraction. But abstraction needs interpretation to make it useful in practical life. And the interpretation is almost always context driven. So as the context of the reality changes, the interpretation of the abstraction changes to fit the reality. Over time these multiple interpretations bring in the contradictions in religious philosophy.

So in peaceful times say how do you interpret the above abstraction to explain the reality that the soldier really loves your neighbor. It could go something like this: God is Great => so you should love God => Everyone is God's creation => You should love His creation => You should love your neighbor because he is His creation.
But in times of war, how do you explain the fact that soldier is ready to kill people. Here is one attempt: God is Great => Everyone should love Him => So everyone should obey His will => Those who don't obey God's will bring upon themselves the wrath of God => God wants to punish those who disobey His will through His creation => You are God's creation => Your enemy does not obey God's will => You should kill your enemy.

Similar contradictions can be found in Gita (go here).

Go to Part 2 for more...