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Originally Posted by Raziel
I could use any term: idea, name, notion ...
There is no need for linguistic judo - my points are still valid even to a believer of Crom such as yourself 
Africa had no Jesus before the missionaries, if Christianity is "da whey" is every African pre-missionary dammed?
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Of course you could use
any term, idea, notion or idiom to describe 'God', but it doesn't represent it beyond a mental abstract.
God is a 'mental concept', Shiva is a 'mental concept'....Crom is a 'mental concept'....Brahman/Absolute/Source/Oneness...all are just ideas in the mind
until experientially realised.
Africa had no 'Jesus' before the missionaries and they introduced the concept OF a Jesus to the missionaries...but hey, Jesus was only the SON of God, right? another mental concept.
What I am talking about here is
total transcendence...and that's an experience that the mind cannot even quantify into words...and yet, many African Shamans would know about it.
So, the Christians believe a soul will 'go to Hell' if they are not a Christian...but that is only a
Christian belief and if you weren't a Christian and didn't believe it, will you still go to Hell? according to a Christian you would, but hey...if you're not a Christian, what then? and so, it becomes a belief-based 'reality' which has nothing to do with anybody who doesn't believe it.