Does Christianity, Judaism And Islam Exist Only In Meinong's Jungle?

My internet connection is so lousy that it has taken me forever to answer this question. *sigh*

At any rate, these three religions have an impact...dare I say substance...far greater than those entities traditionally relegated to Meinong's "jungle." I am not defending their legitimacy, it simply is perhaps that they have bridged the boundary of reality, at least for their adherents. If Meinong's jungle be a description of one of the nether regions of the human mind, then humans have the capacity to allow its inhabitants to range outside the pale of settlement.

Of course, it could be that those who hold so great a faith in these religions are only too happy to reside in the jungle themselves.

A very good question to contemplate, thank you for posting this. :)

"Each in its own possible world." That is fine, the problem I have is when an exuberant believer decides I should comply with the rules and parameters of their " faith" - so to say?

Example: I am a Sermon on the Mount Christian. I am suspicious of most other Bible verses.

In short: I believe that Harmony is in the long run "workable; and that Disharmony and alienation is "unworkable" in the long run.

However, I realize that anyone could prove that Harmony in the short run makes us vulnerable to being abused, and that disharmony and alienation is "workable" in the short run.

Religions are social phenomena and therefore exist, regardless of whatever metaphysics they assert.

Judaism's metaphysics aren't terribly cut and dried, btw. We're inclined to accept that we can't know anything about what might come, or not, after death. So we focus on the here and now, and how we live our lives.

Hey, how are you? I do know that Christianity exists in my heart!