Comparative Religions

Most major religions have embedded within them three camps. The radical fundamentalist camp believes only their VIEW of their religion is right and all others are wrong. The second camp is less dogmatic but won’t stray far from the farm, while the last camp shares their religion while wishing well to others.

Which camp are you in?

There being only ONE GOD, then what are we to make of all the different views of who this God is and what this God is like? We can take three obvious stands in this domain:

1-One is right and all others are wrong
2-All are nonsense!
3-The contradictions are only on the exoteric level.

I embrace door #3! :-)

There are all manner of ways, methods, and forms used to present God to the world and to an individual. How one prays, one what day one group meets, how one is baptized, takes communion, counts beads, or whatever is all about exteriority and exoteric issues. However, when we get to the heart of each major religion, when we get to the benevolent issues of love, mercy, and forgiveness, then we find commonality.

As Bernard Haisch wrote, “The primary benevolent objectives of organized religion is to make people aware of, and connected to, the spiritual realm and through that to motivate moral development leading to enlightenment, perfection, salvation, etc.”

It matters not what a religion calls or NAMES their God as long as that paradigm works itself out in loving others, loving ALL. When an individual or religion seeks to enforce itself on all others, denying others their FREE WILL, that religion has gone astray. And furthermore, spiritual wisdom must be accessible to the fool as well as the genius, which means different words, methods, and styles must come from the same religion.

We are ALL ONE so the sooner we get that into our religious social behaviors, the better we will ALL be.

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  • If we agree to agree on how we think about spiritual reality (such as of the benevolent concepts of love, mercy, and forgiveness), then commonality suggests that exoteric and esoteric have become the same. So God is discovered at once within me and within us. That’s a pretty good indication that we’re all one. Solipsism suggests that my experience is necessarily private. Commonality suggests that it is not. The true reality is that we are indeed one in the spirit.

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