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How it is possible to believe in all religions?

Echogem222

Active Member
How it is possible to believe in all religions at the same time?

I believe i have the answer.

A popular analogy purporting to illustrate the truth of religious pluralism tells of four blind men who discover an elephant.
Since the men have never encountered an elephant, they grope about, seeking to understand and describe this new phenomenon.
One grasps the trunk and concludes it is a snake.
Another explores one of the elephant's legs and describes it as a tree. A third finds the elephant's tail and announces that it is a rope.
And the fourth blind man, after discovering the elephant's side, concludes that it is, after all, a wall.
Each, in his blindness, is describing the same thing: an elephant. Yet each describes the same thing in a radically different way.

According to religious pluralists this is analogous to the different religions of the world: They are describing the same thing in radically different ways. Thus one should conclude that no individual religion has the whole truth, but truth is found in them all and that all should be viewed as essentially equally valid.
If God is infinite and we are finite it is reasonable to believe that none of us can fully capture His nature.

But

Almost all religions and paths lead to the same destination, lead to God
I wrote almost because only paths/religions that teach kindness, love, justice, goodness is important is a path that lead to God.

Paths/religions that do not teach that kindness, love, justice, goodness is important is not a path that lead to God. Religions/paths that teach violence, hate is important is not a path to God.
I see different religions as all having pieces of truth in them (usually, some of them are just copies of already existing religions that were changed just slightly to be used by cult leaders), but not enough to make the full picture. But no, I disagree with you that all religions lead to God since my religion teaches that something exists which exceeds all of reality including God or Gods.
 
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